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March 12th, 2016 
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Susanne Posel (OC) :Four year old Navaeh Hill was taken to Diamond Dentistry in Houston, Texas, to have some decaying teeth removed. The toddler suffered from brain damage during a routine visit with dentist Bethaniel Jefferson and “can no longer talk or walk or really see much”.
Courissa Clark, Navaeh’s mother, said her daughter was “seriously harmed” by the dental care she received. The child began having seizures not long after she was sedated.
Jefferson began treating the seizures “by administering oral medication (Halcion) instead of contacting emergency personnel”. According to documents provided by the state, Jefferson waited several hours before contacting 911, which caused Navaeh to “suffer severe brain injury”.
The Texas Board of Dental Examiners have suspended Diamond Dentistry from practicing temporarily.
Jefferson was disciplined in 2005 for “not meeting the minimum standard of care” and for not keeping “adequate dental records for a patient” and again in 2012 for “falling below the minimum standard of care in the sedation of a minor”.
Clark took her daughter to 4 separate hospitals before placing the toddler in in-patient rehabilitation where she is undergoing “multiple hours of occupational, physical and speech therapy everyday” because the child “can’t talk or walk or do anything she used to do.”
Nevaeh is now being fed through a tube and her vision appears to have been impaired. Her mother explained that the toddler can “follow voices sometimes but she can’t look directly at a person anymore.”
Incorrect administration of anesthesia to children is an issue for dentists because the result are damaging to the patient, and sometimes even results in death.
Dentist Jennifer S. Sherry warned dentists in an op-ed piece that the media will blow “isolated occurrences” if injury or death out of proportion and in order to calm the public’s fears it is important that dentists do all they can to convince patients that “their safety is first and foremost”.
However, the number of dentists harming their patients is rising, and not just a few isolate incidents.
As of 2012, an estimated 31 children have died because of dental sedation. One of the most obvious issues is that the 18,000 dentists registered in the US as of 2007 have only taken weekend classes on oral sedation.
Because dental sedation is so lucrative, raking in “as much as half a million extra in [the dentist’s] pocket at retirement”, many in the practice are willing to overlook the dangers.
While this is not enough training, those dentists have passed down the cost of those classes to their patients, resulting in an increase in payments by tens of thousands.
Last fall, the California Dental Board filed a complaint with the attorney general concerning Dr. M. Camila Borrero, DDS, over the death of a 3 year old child because of misappropriated anesthesia and negligent treatment.
Borrero failed to record “the two times that the boy vomited during the procedure, allowing the anesthetic to wear off during the procedure”; as well as not “recording his heart rate and other vital information throughout the day.”
Susanne Posel, Occupy Corporatism
Source Article from http://nsnbc.me/2016/03/12/31-children-dead-counting-why-dentists-ignore-sedation-dangers/
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