[Battle Axe]

I hope someone out there contemplating having dentures will see this and get a 2nd opinion.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Wow, I never heard of this. I had sedation dentistry to remove wisdom teeth and woke up just fine.

[WhiteGuy]

Freeper needs help with sedation dentistry

To answer your question, yes! it's ok to do shots of "151" before having this procedure.

[mware]

My uncle has a pacemaker. You would not believe the tests and red tape he had to go through to get a mole removed, including two different stress tests, a whole series of blood tests.

[HairOfTheDog]

Sorry for their loss. If it's not one thing it's another.

[voiceinthewind]

Sorry to hear about your friend, Battle Axe. Mr. VITW gets his dental with the VA, they are pretty thorough going over all his pre-existings. Prayers being said for his family.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

I like to be awake while some strange person is poking around my ivories so I have no idea what the sedation can do.

I do know that the elderly are very vulnerable to electrolyte imbalances. My grandmother was hospitalized for over a week while they got her back in balance.

She always drank a great deal of water and tended to avoid salt (she said it burned her mouth) and because of her grief over the loss of her husband she was not eating hardly at all. The combination affected her grasp on reality which was why she was checked in to the hospital were they found the problem.

I don't know but if he was not eating because of the pain in his mouth and was drinking lots of fluids the same thing could have happened to your dad's friend.

A single IV would not have necessarily cleared the problem up.

[Gay State Conservative]

Can't really speak about dentistry,but having worked for 20+ years in the medical biz I can say that in a 90 year old,there's no such thing as "minor surgery".One would think that a responsible dentist would think the same about a patient of that age.

I'm surprised that the dentist did not,at the very least,require a letter from his primary care physician clearing him for a tooth extraction.

Some people with a story like yours might be inclined to consult a malpractice lawyer.

[thoughtomator]

Because of his age, I think they just blew him off.

Had a number of doctors try to do this to my grandfather not long ago.

[nyscof]

Sorry for your loss. Here are some links from PubMed that may get you started

Major morbidity or mortality from office anesthetic procedures: a closed-claim analysis of 13 cases

" The disproportionate number of patients in this sample who were at the extremes of age and with ASA classifications below I suggests that anesthesia risk may be significantly increased in patients who fall outside the healthy, young adult category typically treated in the oral surgical/dental outpatient setting."

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?itool=abstractplus&db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=abstractplus&list_uids=1839816

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Adverse sedation events in pediatrics
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=AbstractPlus&list_uids=11015502&query_hl=2&itool=pubmed_docsum

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=AbstractPlus&list_uids=9448787&query_hl=2&itool=pubmed_docsum

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I don't know how related this is but many children have died in dentists chairs from the sedation or anesthesia.

[grellis]

Thought you might be able to help, doc.