LaVECCHIA v. BILELLO

2009-05528

76 A.D.3d 548 (2010)

76 N.Y.S.2d 326

TRACY ANN LaVECCHIA, Respondent, v. RITA MARIE BILELLO, Defendant, and RAPHAELSON DENTAL ASSOCIATES, Appellant.

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Second Department.

Decided August 10, 2010.


Ordered that the order is affirmed insofar as appealed from, with costs.

The requisite elements of proof in a dental malpractice action are a deviation or departure from accepted standards of dental practice, and evidence that such departure was a proximate cause of the plaintiff's injury (see Koi Hou Chan v Yeung, 66 A.D.3d 642 [2009]; Terranova v Finklea, 45 A.D.3d 572

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