Dentist messed up crown 3 times, now need implant. can i get reimbursement?

i had a root canal done a little over two years ago. the root canal was successful, but the crown the dentist put on broke three months after. he offered to put a new crown on, but that one was ill fitting. i could feel the tooth move around when i chewed, and saliva would get underneath the crown and cause bad breath. in addition, the badly fitting crown made my gums bleed and food would get in-between the crown and the teeth surrounding it. the dentist re-cemented the crown back on but it fell off several more times in the next year. finally, he offers to re-make the crown again but once again this crown was ill fitting and fell off again. it needed to be re-cemented again several more times. finally, i become fed up and go to his partner at the same dental facility, who is older and more experienced. he says that i no longer have any tooth material for the crown to hold on to, and recommended that i get a dental implant. i paid around 900 for the original root canal, 1000 for the crown, and now i might have to pay another 1500-2000 for the implant. the dentist has offered to cover the cost of the new crown after i get the implant, but is it fair for me to ask for reimbursement for the root canal procedure since i now need to get an implant, and it seems like dentist #1 either

1. rendered my root canal useless by messing up my teeth with so many ill fitting crowns, and the procedures wore down my teeth so that now i need another expensive procedure

or

2. misdiagnosed me for getting a root canal in the first place when he should have recommended i get an implant, thus causing me to pay for two different procedures when i should have just had to have for one or the other

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There is one option and even then he did make a mistake. If your tooth was just not taking regardless of how a procedure was done, if the tooth was moving because of another tooth, ect. then he could have tried his best.

This would be the argument. That argument dosen't matter, this guy messed up. I have no legal advice, but, you should look into him taking care of you (of course not him physically messing with your teeth).

It is his fault.