2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15
While the inconsolable parents of a 3-year-old girl who died after an appointment with the dentist await the autopsy results, the residents of the community of Stockton, California, are angry and went to protest in front of the clinic where the incident.
CBS News reported that last week Aracely Ávila took her little girl Daleyza Ávila-Hernández to have two teeth and a tooth extracted at the Children's Dental Surgery Center in that city. When the girl had been there for half an hour, the mother saw an ambulance arrive, but she never thought it was for her little girl.
A few moments later a nurse approached her to inform her that her baby had suffered cardiac arrest, but that she was already stable and that she had been transported to a nearby hospital. However, upon arrival at the hospital, he was informed that he had passed away.
"The only thing I did was take my daughter to the dentist because they were going to fix her teeth and about 30 minutes later they brought her dead," her grieving mother told her in an interview with Fox News. Both Ávila and her husband assure that before the surgery their daughter was happy and healthy.
David Thompson, administrator of the Children's Dental Surgery Center, told the same news network that during each surgery there is a dentist, an anesthesiologist and two assistants present, and that although he has ten years of experience in this field, he had never seen a case So.
As the Stockton Police Department continues to investigate what may have caused this tragedy, cases of child deaths in dentist rooms continue to attract attention.
In 2012, The Daily Mail newspaper stated that in some cases dentists in the United States had administered oral sedatives to patients as young as 18 months old, and a foundation based in Virginia would have compiled figures that would indicate that in the last 15 years Some 31 children had died during or after dental treatments.
Mykel Peterson, a 4-year-old boy with autism, also died in March of this year at a dental clinic in Washington.
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