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Teen Dies Dentist Chair - Psychology, Special Needs, Health - Posted: 15th Jul, 2007 - 2:39am
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Teen Dies In Dentist Chair
This is so unfortunate. It was a routine check-up, it seems to be connected with the anesthesia but will that cause him to struggle for air?
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| In a rare, but tragic incident, a Waterloo, Ontario teen died July 4 during a routine trip to the dentist for the removal of three wisdom teeth, according to an article on the Canada-based Web site, TheRecord.com. Leejay Levene went to a Waterloo dental surgeon last week, sat back in the dentist's chair and slipped under a general anesthetic. But soon, the anesthesiologist noticed something was wrong: Levene began struggling for air. A call went out to 911 as the anesthesiologist tried to resuscitate him. Paramedics and, later, doctors at Grand River Hospital tried everything, but by the next day, the 18-year-old was dead. Now, the Waterloo Region coroner, assisted by regional police, is trying to determine what happened to the teen, who was by all appearances healthy, and was undergoing a simple dental procedure routinely performed on patients his age. "This is such an anomaly," Irwin Fefergrad, the registrar for the Royal College of Dental Surgeons of Ontario, told the Register.com. |
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This whole situation is very disturbing on so many levels. I am extremely sensitive and if a dentist uses too much local anaesthetic on me, I usually break out into hives! Maybe the anaesthesiologist used the incorrect amount of general anaesthethic on the teenager! It would be interesting to follow up on this case. I wonder what the autopsy would reveal?
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| "This is such an anomaly," Irwin Fefergrad, the registrar for the Royal College of Dental Surgeons of Ontario, told the Register.com. |
When a tragedy occurs concerning the death of a healthy human being, I think it would be prudent not to comment on it, without knowing all the facts. I regard the above comment as extremely offensive to the parents of the deceased!
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