VANCOUVER, Wash. -- A 4-year-old Vancouver boy has died after what seemed like a routine dentist visit last week. Mykel Peterson was put under with anesthesia to fill a cavity, but never woke up. The ...

LUBBOCK, Texas — A nine-year-old girl died last week after dental surgery in California, shocking the dental community nationwide, including pediatric dentist and owner of Parkview Pediatric Dentistry ...

A California State Assembly bill that would have required three practitioners to be present when a child younger than age 7 was undergoing anesthesia in a dental office has been put on hold, while a ...

The parents of a 3-year-old boy who died following a dental procedure in Wichita, KS, are suing the dentist, the dental office, the certified registered nurse anesthetist (CRNA), and the anesthesia ...

Anesthesiologists call for more research into child deaths caused by dental anesthesia in an article published online by the journal Pediatrics. Little is known about pediatric deaths caused by dental ...

PHOENIX — Nearly six years after a Yuma toddler died following a visit to the dentist, state regulators are proposing changes in how dentists treat their smallest patients. Zion Gastelum was 2 years ...

CHICAGO – Lack of oxygen to the brain caused by anesthesia caused the death of a 5-year-old girl who never awoke from sedation during a visit to the dentist, the Cook County medical examiner’s office ...

If your child needs to have tonsils removed, you probably take it for granted that a physician who specializes in anesthesiology will take care of anesthesia and monitoring, while the surgeon focuses ...

The death last month of 4-year-old Lý Trí Dũng at an Oakland dental office has once again raised the question: Does California need stricter rules over the use of anesthesia in the dentist’s office?

VANCOUVER, Wash. -- A 4-year-old Vancouver boy has died after what seemed like a routine dentist visit last week. Mykel Peterson was put under with anesthesia to fill a cavity, but never woke up. The ...