I pit Pizza Hut.

I’m sorry…what?

Stabbing my thigh with a fork always works for me.

People … who make people … are the luckiest people in the world.

Chances are also good that the filling was falling out anyway and she just bit down right (or wrong) and broke the tooth. I’ve had this happen before … a lot actually because I lost my baby teeth very late in life and many of them had been filled, so when they fell out they fell out in pieces. I’m over 40 and still have a baby tooth that never fell out. :frowning:

Pizza Hut is all over Thailand. But even in Bangkok, quality varies wildly from branch to branch. some are very good. Wherever the delivery ones come from in our area is not bad.

We also have The Pizza Company, which is a Pizza Hut clone, started by the American entrepreneur who lost the Pizza Hut franchise for Thailand.

My theory is that it was a piece of bone–it was a Meat Lover’s Pizza, and one of the ingredients was ground beef. And I’ve bit down on bone in ground beef before.

In defense of our Saturday night meal choice, usually, Pizza Hut here is not bad at all. Now my husband will occasionally buy himself a Little Caesar’s for dinner on the way home–that’s gross pizza, my friends, and I do not partake.

From my legal experience in the U.S., you don’t have to file suit. Quite often, clearcut cases end up being resolved before a suit’s filed. Once we establish that a client has a viable claim, we usually begin by writing a polite letter to the company who then turns it over to its liability insurance carrier for investigation. We then provide for the company’s insurer the necessary evidence that supports our client’s claim (e.g., in your case that would be the hard piece of something in the pizza that should have not been there, the receipt of purchase, and the bills or estimates for the dental work that had to be done). Then, the insurer makes a settlement offer which, at the very least, should cover the medical or dental bills that were incurred as a result. (However, unlike the U.S., Canadian courts are governed by the “English Rule” in which the loser of a court case has to pay all the legal costs and that might affect the other party’s willingness to settle a tort claim before a suit’s filed.)

In your case, if you inspect what remains of your pizza and find some hard pieces of something that likely caused your filling to fall out, I’d hold on to it and consult a local tort claim attorney (preferably one who doesn’t charge for the first visit) just to find out what he or she thinks of your case. As long as it isn’t going to cost you anything, it never hurts to inquire. (If you already have a family attorney, ask him or her.)

Pizza Hut is made out of people!

Only their new soylent flavor. Unless you meant the actual building, in which case that’s old news. They’ve been using substandard manufacturing materials for years now.

I hate Pizza Hut. They were always the greasiest of the pizza chains. Papa Gino’s (maybe only limited to New England) was the best. But after eating was passes for pizza in Japan for months, I was glad Pizza Hut decided to open a store 300 miles north of Tokyo. And they didn’t even have squid/corn pizza on the menu.

You start out eating a Pizza Hut pizza. Who would’ve thought things could go downhill from there?

OK, I haven’t had it in awhile. Reason being, there’s a local place that is closer and they make this alfredo pizza with roasted chicken on it. Wow!

What are they charging these days?

Ambesol, shmbesol-what you want is some nice whiskey. :smiley:

(I loves me some Pizza Hut. I know, I’m going to Pizza Hell.)

I’m a people who has made one people. Like the people who made me and the people who made people who made me , I come from a long line of people who make people.

My mother, who lost some sort of lottery, has twice in her life broken a tooth on a rock in a bean burrito (there were about ten years between the two incidents). Once was at a fast-food place, the other a frozen grocery store burrito. In both cases the companies paid without much hassle: the fast food company gave her more grief than the frozen food company, but she didn’t even use a lawyer. She just wrote them letters.

Two times I have broken molars… on potato chips! I don’t get it.

(I think it had to do with the shearing and wedging force of the masticated chips getting stuck between the gaps in the teeth and in the top of fillings.)

Things I have broken my teeth on:

  • uncooked grain of rice in with the cooked grains
  • piece of bone in hamburger meat at Taco Time
  • Vietnamese sub (I bit crookedly and snapped off a piece of my own molar)

I think I should just get 'em all pulled and be done with it. Very sorry for your pain, Savannah - I’ve been there. I usually just show up at the dentist’s office without an appointment and say, “Broken tooth.” They squeeze me in instantly.

ETA: On a somewhat-related note, I though maybe you were going to pit Pizza Hut from disappearing from Victoria, like they’ve disappeared from Calgary. They have one eat-in restaurant left in all of Calgary now. :confused:

You could have broken your filling in any number of ways, including simply biting down at a strange angle. It would have felt like you were biting down on something hard and your tooth would have broken. There is no guarantee that your problem was caused by Pizza Hut, especially since you searched your food and found nothing that would have caused the problem you encountered.

If you really want to you can call the Pizza Hut and they might cover your dental bill, though with a lack of whatever hard thing it is you bit down on as proof they might not. I love that you seem rational and don’t feel an immediate need to sue them. I think the attitude so many people have today that accidents simply can’t happen no matter what and that we have a right and responsibility as a society to sue the blazing blue fuck out of anybody who might have the opportunity to cause even the tiniest amount of pain or inconvenience is really sick and is part of the reason why so many things are so damned expensive.

I once had a tooth cracked during a dental cleaning. IIRC there was a filling in it which the hygienist loosened while trying to scrape out some tartar. She called the dentist, who fitted a temporary filling and scheduled me for another appointment the next day.

There is a world of difference between asking someone to cover the medical bills their negligence caused (which, if you bust up a tooth badly enough that you need a root canal or a bridge, can be hundreds or thousands of dollars, and many people don’t have dental insurance) and suing the “blazing blue fuck” out of someone. I agree that if she couldn’t find anything in the pizza, maybe there wasn’t anything, but my mom destroyed two teeth on rocks in burritos, and that’s negligent. It’s an accident, not malicious, but expecting the company to cover the cost is exactly the same as expecting an individual to cover the cost if, say, they ran into your car while you were parked at a stop sign. Accidents happen, but when they do, the responsible party ought to bear the burden.

I’m not saying not to ask for proper compensation for her dental bills. I’m not saying that it isn’t Pizza Hut’s fault. I am saying that she posted a thread and immedately started getting advice (not from you) to contact a lawyer so she can find out her options. That is nuts. She doesn’t even have anything she could have bit down on to break her tooth. Hell, my dad once broke a tooth on a tater tot because of the way he bit down. There was nothing wrong with the tater tot, he just bit down at a weird angle.

The OP is doing nothing wrong and I applaud the way she is approaching the situation. After having worked for several major food companies in the past (Pizza Hut included) I can tell you people are sue happy in the USA. They buy product and eat it months after it has gone bad and try to sue because their pizza didn’t stay good for 90 days. They sue because they found a live rat in a bag of chips despite the fact that it is obvious the rat came from their home and crawled into the bag after it was opened. I remember recieving threats of lawsuits because some woman’s daughter had a bad dream after eating the product!

Once I had some dental work done and the dentist accidentally nicked a vein in my gum so he had to give me an antibiotic, but in the meantime my face swelled up and bruised. He took care of it right away and was very apologetic but every single person who found out what happened and why my face was bruised was shocked to find out I wasn’t taking him to court. The fact that every single person I talked to thought it was my duty to haul him to court over what was a mild inconvenience at best makes me never want to own or operate a business in this country.

If the OP wants to talk to Pizza Hut and see if they will cover her bill she is welcome to do so. They are also welcome to tell her they aren’t going to cover it since she has no proof of finding anything in the pizza which might have broken her tooth. I hope she gets it taken care of quickly, no matter how it is addressed, and that her future pizza encounters are less painful.