September 27, 2006

Chicago, IL

Diamond went to Little Angel Dental, a storefront office, to have two cavities filled and her front, bottom teeth capped. According to Travis, the dentist gave her a yellow liquid to drink, then nitrous oxide, also known as laughing gas. (Note: Previous versions of this story incorrectly referred to nitric oxide.) On top of that, Travis said, the dentists gave the 35-pound girl an IV sedation. Travis said she was asked to leave the room while the dental work was done. When she returned, her daughter had no pulse and wasn’t breathing. “They did not monitor my daughter when she was having the work done,” said the mother. “They also asked me to leave out of the room … I didn’t know why because I was going to sit there, but they said, ‘You have to get out of the room.’ … At least if they weren’t going to monitor her, I could have watched her.” Read more.

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