A five-year-old boy has died after having his baby teeth removed at the dentist.
Marianna Vakhniak and her partner Viktor Pashnyk, who are both musicians, took their five-year-old son Veles to the Ori-Dent dental clinic in Lviv, Ukraine to remove two baby teeth on December 17 last year. But on arrival, the little boy was nervous and surgeon’s offered to remove them under general anesthesia.
The parents agreed, but the child protested while in the chair and refused to put on the mask. Ms. Vakhniak claims she then asked for the procedure to stop, however the mask was allegedly still placed on him until he fell asleep.
Shortly after the operation started, the boy’s mom heard a commotion and medical workers were seen rushing in to the room. After about 20 minutes, two teams of emergency responders had arrived at the clinic. After being rushed to hospital, the mother was told that his heart had stopped, but thankfully the doctors managed to restart it. But medics had no other choice than to rush him to the intensive care unit at St. Nicholas Hospital.
Medics discovered that he had experienced clinical death after the dentists put him under. The boy later died on January 13. A police investigation has been launched with officers probing if medical workers are responsible for the child’s death.
Earlier today, it emerged how a family in the UK discovered their little girl had stage four cancer after a routine trip to the dentist. George McGovern and Joanne Sergeant, from Runcorn, noticed something was wrong with their daughter Ellie-Mae’s tooth, which led to her being diagnosed with stage four neuroblastoma. George said: “It started when I spotted a molar tooth that was much larger than Ellie’s other teeth and I thought: ‘that’s not normal’. It was around this time that Ellie started to get cranky and only wanted her mum.”
“We took her to the dentist and they told us she had an adult molar. Over the next week it became wobbly and fell out – there was black underneath it. The dentist told us to take her to the A&E so we went to Warrington Hospital and, after a biopsy on her back, doctors diagnosed her with neuroblastoma, stage four. The news devastated us.”
Now just 15 months old, brave Ellie is fighting for her life with cancer cells in her jaw, face, stomach and bones. She’s currently being cared for at Alder Hey Children’s Hospital, where she’s battling an infection before she can start chemotherapy.
Her dad described her as “a shell of her former self”, adding: “She was the most bubbly little girl and was such a smiler – unless you were new to her, then she might give you a little cry!”
“She had a lovely Christmas and was even beginning to start walking, now she’s got tubes everywhere and she’s really poorly. We’re in shock and it’s turned our worlds upside down. We won’t give up on her.”
