A 75-year-old woman died while undergoing surgery at the low-cost dental center: Dental Access, opened in Cannes in 2015. The Regional Health Agency contacted the Grasse public prosecutor’s office, which decided to open an investigation to “determine the causes of death and verify the conditions of practice of the dental profession”.
suffering from periodontitis terminal, a serious inflammation of the tissues supporting the tooth, the Cannes resident went to Dental Access for the first time on February 13. According to Nice Matin, victim of a malaise during the consultation, she was sent to the hospital from where she will come out the same evening, being a simple “crisis ofanxiety “According to Dental Access, the patient contacted the center again the next day to continue the care, which the dental surgeon objected to.” He asked for at least a five-week delay to ensure that everything was fine. He also demanded either hospital care or an appointment with a resuscitator anesthesiologist, as well as the presence of the latter during the intervention, “explains the president of Dental Access to nice morning.
The mystery remains
Thus, 5 weeks later, on March 24, 2018, the woman had another operation, assisted by a resuscitator anesthesiologist. While the constants of the patient panic 45 minutes after the start of the operation, the anesthetist begins to perform a heart massage. The patient was rushed to hospital where she died two days later, on March 26. The family has since filed a complaint against the dental center. “At this time, no causal link has been established between the dental treatment and the death,” said the lawyer for Dental Access. According to them, toxicological analyzes dating from April 5 “do not reveal either overdose or allergy to the drug”.
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