Posted on 06/17/2015 3:35:39 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
MINNEAPOLIS - A family is mourning the death of their teenage daughter who died after complications during a wisdom teeth extraction.
The family of Sydney Galleger announced on her CaringBridge page that she died on Monday, roughly a week after she went in for a "simple, common" procedure to get her wisdom teeth removed. In a June 9 journal, her mother wrote that everything had been going well until the very end, when Sydney's blood pressure shot up, her pulse dropped and she went into cardiac arrest.
Her mother, Diane, wrote that paramedics arrived quickly and were able to stabilize her so she could be transferred to the U of M Amplatz Children's Hospital.
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The guy that sits in the cube next to me here at work’s daughter grew up with this gal. They were on the swimming team together.
Very sad.
Heart wrenching for her family I am sure. Prayers up for them in grieving for their loss.
Just because the odds are in your favor does not mean certainty. No matter what, young people will die from the most prosaic causes. A baseball player will die from a baseball hit to an unprotected chest or a runner from an undetected heart problem. Just this week, 2 kids playing on an ocean beach almost lost their lives to shark attack but for good immediate emergency care. Sad but the truth.
A week later?
Unless an infection or some similar problem developed at the extraction point, the extraction doesn’t seem like it was necesarily the cause.
Tragic and sad. Maybe the sedatives triggered something? I had all four of my wisdom teeth extracted when I was 14 and asked that they put me under twilight sleep instead of general anesthesia. I understand that both carry risks, though the former has less.
I had 13 extractions during one session in the dentist’s chair. I opted for local anesthetic.
This happened to our class Valedictorian, shortly after High School graduation (‘82). He was such a nice guy and I assume would have had great success in whatever he did. Same doctor pulled my wisdom teeth.
My son is having the same surgery in a few weeks.
Around two months ago, I had two broken teeth extracted. It was a pretty rough time and the dentist kept telling me that everything was going fine.
After he finally got them out, he admitted that they were really tough. He gave me a prescription for an antibiotic but after about a week I was still pretty sick so went to my Dr.
He gave me a bunch of shots including what turned out to be penicillin and a new prescription for a stronger anti-biotic. I finally got over it but your teeth can cause serious problems. I still have to go back to the dentist but am waiting until I feel like it.
An upper wisdom tooth is not far from the basal ganglia.
An infection can kill or render one a vegetable rather quickly.
Even simple outpatient procedures carry an inherent risk to include death.
Very sad when the normally high odds against risk go against someone.
Men assigned to nuclear submarines have to get their wisdom teeth pulled because if there is a problem with them while they are at sea it becomes a national security problem if they have to go to port. So it’s really a routine thing, this story is a tragedy precisely because it is so unusual and rare an outcome.
a kid died in here a couple of years ago after tooth extraction.
Mine too... Sad story.
Wisdom teeth extraction is a common “get extra income” for dentist.
They want to jerk them out before they are causing a problem.
This is just my opinion.
Dentists are for treating cavities and teeth cleanings, anything beyond that such as an extraction should be performed by an oral surgeon.
Any surgery has the potential for an undesirable outcome. Most survive surgery but there is the small percentage that don’t and we hear about them. Nothing is guaranteed safe and sure.
She arrested at the end of the procedure, so yeah, the
extraction and/or anesthesia had quite a lot to do with it.
She then had treatment in a hospital for a week until it
became futile, I suppose.
Oh gosh. I’m so sorry.
My husband had his wisdom teeth removed several years ago, but years and years after he should have had them removed, and they had grown into his jaw bone.
One side was fine, but his jaw fractured on the other side, unknown to anyone. He was in pain for weeks, and the dentist told him to take Advil.
For a few months, the pain never got better, it never healed, and his stomach hurt. Very long story short, after x-rays and an endoscopy, he had an ulcer from the Advil and bone fragments in his jaw.
Only after the fragments were removed and he stopped taking Advil did he get better.
The gastroenterologist told us that she sees the results of dentists prescribing OTC pain relievers all the time.
I try not to let him tough things out anymore, but he’s going to do only what he wants to do.
My husband had his wisdom teeth extracted a few years ago. On the day we were there, the office was very busy, and the nurses were running back and forth. When the procedure was over and I went back to get my husband’s pain meds, the nurse seemed pretty distracted. I got her attention and asked her to focus so that we could get the dosage correct.
Well, as it turned out, she wasn’t focused. The surgeon called that evening to check his progress, and I told him my husband had slept most of the day. He asked for the pain med dosage, and was horrified when I told him. Thanks to the nurse, I had been overdosing my husband all day.
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