A child died in a Tver dental clinic. The parents were awarded 18 rubles in compensation.

3-year-old Julia They brought her to the dentist to treat pulpitis, but after general anesthesia she don't askzeroed outInvestigative Committee of the Russian Federation for the Tver Region вopened a criminal case The case is under Part 2 of Article 238 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation: “Provision of services that do not meet safety requirements, resulting in the death of a minor child.”

According to doctors, the girl should have emerged from the drug-induced sleep 20 minutes after the procedures were completed, but she hadn't emerged even after 2,5 hours. Only then did doctors begin resuscitating the patient, but it was too late. The dental clinic refunded the parents 32 rubles for the treatment and also paid 18 rubles in moral damages.

The girl's death isn't the first time a child has died in a dentist's chair. In late December, after a visit to a private dental clinic, died 3 year old boy from Ryazan. After treatment, he was sent home, but he became ill. He died three days later. In December 2022, in the Moscow region. уmeasures boy Fedya, who fell into a coma in the dentist's chair in 2019. He was 2,5 years old at the time of his visit. Incorrect anesthesia led to cardiac arrest. His parents, who are doctors, resuscitated him, and the attending dentist was at a loss.

Parents en masse are recognizedthat after reading such news they “developed one more phobia.”

Rector of the Moscow State University of Medicine and Dentistry Oleg Yanushevich on this matter advises: "Try to avoid general anesthesia. Nowadays, everything in dentistry can be done with local anesthesia.".