I heard a local Baltimore talk show discussing this sad incident this morning. At first, I thought they were talking about a similar incident that was widely reported in the New York Post (or Daily News) several months ago. How can the M.D.'s not know about it when another teen died from it in the recent past?
I don't know. My brother-in-law (the fifth physician we consulted) said that only if all other causes were ruled out, would he admit the possibility of an absess from the tooth spreading to the brain.
Well, no one, not one of the five physicians in two states was able to explain the stroke in a very healthy 43 year old woman with no risk factors. So I did some inference, and concluded that the absess caused the stroke.