Poor thing, so glad he's okay

Aww... And the article did try to find out the condition of the human he was with, to no avail. I hope both will be okay, and that Toodles will never again be exposed to opiates, and he'll be adopted into a safer home.

Narcan saved the life of this poodle after suffering apparent drug overdose

This was a terrible and thought-provoking story

shared by one of the librarians on the MEDLIB-L list. As another member said, I don't understand why so many baby teeth were going to be crowned for discolouration. Surely they could have seen what the permanent ones looked like before such drastic measures for a preschooler? But the whole thing is scary, whether you've got kids or you're going under sedation in a dentist's chair yourself. Thank you to Patricia Reynolds for sharing this. It was a sad read, but one people should see. I hope this story sheds some light on the profession's lack of regulation in terms of sedation and leads to changes, so there will be no more deaths like this one.

Deadly Dentistry--Junior’s Story: Drugged to death, in a Dallas dental chair by Brooks Egerton [part 1 of 7 in an investigative series]

First they drugged him. Then they sent Mom to the waiting room. Then they strapped his torso and wrists to a padded board. But Junior did not let down his guard. At the sound of the drill, dental records say, the 4-year-old began “whining, crying and moving.” So they pulled a strap across his forehead, then soldiered on to the last breath.