KISSIMMEE, Fla. – An Osceola County judge denied two motions Monday to dismiss a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the family of a 17-year-old boy.
The lawsuit alleges the 17-year-old stopped breathing during a dental procedure at a dental office in Kissimmee last year.
Source: Complaint filed against dentist named in wrongful death lawsuit after teen dies / News 6 Orlando
Any extraction procedures can be perform with conventional local anesthesia . The sedation inclusion is more a marketing approach to capture patients. Any patients will have the same risk going under sedation.
This particular situation clearly expose the influences of marketing for recruiting patients the business scheme approach which contradicts the ethics of our profession.