That's interesting. My wife had a stroke after neglecting to get an abcessed tooth fixed. She actually had the stroke in the hospital while they goofed around. They finally discharged her, shocked that she couldn't walk. We should have sued their pants off, but the hospital serves a small community as a trauma center, so we didn't. Our dentist badgered my wife's doctor into prescribing some heavy antibiotics. After taking these, she improved immediately. I credit the dentist with saving her life.
Oddly enough, every M.D. involved denied that an abcessed tooth could affect the brain. They insisted that such an infection is encapsulted. I guess M.D.s admit such a possibility only when Bush can be blamed.
It shouldn't unless there are septic emboli, from a more generalized outbreak (very advanced and untreated). People have strokes in and out of the hospital. If we had a system that truly dispensed justice, you would've lost your suit, with the facts you stated here.
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?
Any infection which is encapsulated can become unencapsulated. Depending on the location, the first time a person becomes aware of long-festering encapsulated infection may be when it becomes unencapsulated, and begins spreading to other areas.
Those MD's who said that were, obviously, craven blowhard liars. Damn such smugness.
I went from dentist to family doctor to the emergency room and back through the process several times....I had a tooth rotting under a crown....they started to treat me as if I was crazy.....the only doc who seemed to care was the ER doc who said I was SUFFERING REAL PAIN......when it turned out to be the tooth I got a new dentist.
the dentist removed the crown and he had to stand there and pick shards of rotting black tooth out of my gums.....I WILL NEVER forget the experience.......it lasted almost a year of agony off and on with no relief......