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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Eula M. Nailor, Appellant, v Tejbir Oberoi, Respondent.
    [654 NYS2d 923]
   Order unanimously affirmed without costs. Memorandum: Supreme Court properly granted defendant’s motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint on the ground that the action is barred by the Statute of Limitations applicable to dental malpractice actions (CPLR 214-a). The complaint, amplified by the verified bill of particulars, asserts claims of dental malpractice arising from the endodontic procedures performed by defendant on plaintiff’s six upper front teeth. Defendant’s submissions establish that more than 21h years elapsed between the date of the alleged malpractice and the commencement of the action. The burden therefore shifted to plaintiff to establish the applicability of the continuous treatment doctrine, which tolls the Statute of Limitations until the end of the course of treatment (see, Massie v Crawford, 78 NY2d 516, 519, rearg denied 79 NY2d 978). Plaintiff failed to meet that burden. She established only that there was an ongoing dentist-patient relationship and that she had received other routine dental care and various treatments involving other teeth (see, Johansen v Ozer, 223 AD2d 412; Kasten v Blaustein, 214 AD2d 539; Merriman v Sherwood, 204 AD2d 998, 999; see also, Washington v Elahi, 192 AD2d 704). (Appeal from Order of Supreme Court, Erie County, Wolf, Jr., J.—Summary Judgment.) Present—Denman, P. J., Pine, Law-ton, Doerr and Balio, JJ.