It’s not so much that. They left her unmonitored while she was under anesthesia, and from what I understand, that is a HUGE no-no. I had “sedation dentistry” done a while back to fix a broken and impacted back tooth and even though that doesn’t actually knock you fully out, just loopy, the dentist was required to keep me on a blood pressure, heart, and finger O2 monitor the entire time, until I started to come back coherent again.
If you’re a wuss like me, BTW, sedation dentistry is awesome. I am a firm believer in it. Then again, I have to have nitrous just to have a good vigorous cleaning...
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For the first 30 years of my life, I went to a dentist that didn’t use novacaine for ANYTHING, including fillings!
Then he retired, and I finally found out how much less unpleasant the whole experience could be.
It makes me cringe just thinking about it.
I’m assuming this was a clinic.
She was probably twilighted just like you. I’m not sure how much law is in the monitoring of twilight patients.
If one wants quality care, one should expect to be paying for that kind of care.
What they did was unconscionable, but if I woke up lone in a building after surgery I wouldn’t try to get rich over it. (I might frighten some people, but that’s about all.) You just know that’s what will happen here.
Ditto, it is worth the extra money!!!!
That is the 900 pound gorilla in this.