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3 days ago | 
drbicuspid.com | Melissa Busch
A man who claims negligence led him to swallow a dental implant driver that required surgery and led to disfigurement has filed a lawsuit against two dentists and a practice in Illinois, according to a story published on May 3 in the Cook County Record. Edwin Anderson filed a lawsuit on April 17 in the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois, against Drs.
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6 days ago | 
drbicuspid.com | Melissa Busch
A boy with no allergies or medical conditions other than asthma died May 6 while under sedation for a dental procedure at a practice in Oklahoma, according to multiple news stories published on May 8. The child experienced a cardiac event about 35 minutes after being administered anesthesia for a dental procedure at Edmond Pediatric & Teen Dentistry in Edmond, OK. The identity and age of the child have been withheld.
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6 days ago | 
drbicuspid.com | Melissa Busch
A man is suing, claiming that a New York City dentist was “under the influence of some mind-altering substance” when she inappropriately touched him during a procedure and placed a misaligned crown that left him with a crooked smile.
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6 days ago | 
drbicuspid.com | Melissa Busch
The attorney general in Texas has launched investigations into Colgate-Palmolive and Procter & Gamble for illegally marketing fluoride toothpaste to parents and children in ways that are “misleading, deceptive, and dangerous.”Attorney General Ken Paxton sent civil investigative demands to the companies due to the growing body of scientific evidence that shows excessive fluoride exposure may not be safe for children, according to a press release dated May 1 from the attorney general.
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1 week ago | 
drbicuspid.com | Melissa Busch
The private plane crash in March that led to the death of a North Carolina dentist and his wife was caused when the aircraft struck a parked flatbed trailer and a gravel-covered storage lot, according to the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB). The plane -- which was piloted by Dr. Mark Bowman of Drs. Bowman, Padgett & Associates in Greenville, NC, and was carrying his wife Robin -- crashed minutes after it departed Pitt-Greenville Airport on March 14.
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1 week ago | 
drbicuspid.com | Melissa Busch
The 27-year-old woman accused of fatally shooting a dentist and dental director during a dispute over loud music at an apartment complex in Wisconsin pleaded not guilty on May 5, according to multiple news stories. Keionna McGowan, who was charged on April 24 with second-degree reckless homicide with use of a dangerous weapon in connection with the shooting death of 41-year-old Dr. Akintunde Bowden, a dental director at Milwaukee Health Services, also waived her right to a preliminary hearing.
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1 week ago | 
drbicuspid.com | Melissa Busch
A man in California is suing a health center and other unnamed individuals, claiming that part of his tongue was gouged out during a dental procedure, according to a story published recently in the Southern California Record.
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1 week ago | 
drbicuspid.com | Melissa Busch
A dental patient in Florida is suing a dentist and a practice, claiming she swallowed a dislodged ultrasonic scaler during a routine cleaning that led to permanent injuries, according to a story published recently in the Florida Record. Scarlett Sterling and Beldon Sterling, her husband, filed a lawsuit on April 4 in the Circuit Court of the Fifteenth Judicial Circuit in Palm Beach County, Florida, accusing Dr. Pamela Brandao and Brilliant Smiles Family Dental in Delray Beach, FL, of negligence.
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1 week ago | 
drbicuspid.com | Melissa Busch
Ye, best known as Kanye West, and Bianca Censori, his wife, intend to file a malpractice lawsuit against his ex-dentist, claiming he supplied him with large tanks of nitrous oxide, getting him hooked on the laughing gas, resulting in paralyzing neurological damage, according to multiple stories. On May 1, a legal team representing the rapper and his wife Bianca Censori filed a notice of intent to sue California-based celebrity dentist Dr. Thomas Connelly.
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1 week ago | 
drbicuspid.com | Melissa Busch
Three women are suing the estate and former dental practice of a clinician in Maryland who took his life after police began investigating allegations that he hid a camera in his practice's bathroom, according to a story published in the Baltimore Banner. The former colleagues filed a lawsuit against the estate of Dr. Thomas Menton, who took his life on January 13, 2024, just days after police began investigating him and Menton Family Dental Care in Ellicott City, MD.
