Autistic man accidentally has all of his teeth pulled.

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http://wtvr.com/2013/04/07/dental-mix-u ... toothless/

That's terrible!

Miscommunication or not, that man lost all his teeth. I would have that dentist fired.

I would think regardless of what was communicated initially the dentist would have the competence to make sure they and the patient are on the same page verbally like before they do the procedure also wouldn't they look at the teeth and see what the problem is? I'd think they would want to avoid pulling unnecessary teeth.

So yeah I'd say that dentist should be fired and possibly charged with something, perhaps scamming or something as this does not seem like something that just accidentally happens.

Of course the article isn't very detailed and so its kind of hard to know for sure how i feel about it.

Each tooth is money for the dentist, so maybe he wanted to remove them? I'm not being really serious here but it is true that they charge per tooth.

It is certainly possible.

I gotta wonder why his family would send him to the dentist alone rather than go with him, as the article mentions that they had tried to coach him on what to say. At the very least, if you're going to be drugged, you should have someone there to help you get home OK, let alone if you have that serious of a communications disorder.

My brother-in-law - who is neurotypical - had once gone to a CHAS clinic to have his wisdom teeth pulled - they yanked his molars instead.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer

Did you sue the dentist to the poorhouse?

That would have been up to my brother-in-law, and I've never heard anything about legal action being taken on his part. In all honesty, I have no idea why he didn't.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer

You would think they could see what needed to be done and then stopped there. If there was even one bit of question in their minds (and there had to be, you know?) they should have waited and confirmed it with him when he sobered up. You don't do something that final without double checking. I think they should not only sue for actual and punitive damages but they should make them pay to have implants all through his mouth. Those are expensive but they won't be like false teeth. Dude was nice looking before they pulled his teeth too! He needs to own that dentist office!

This does remind me of a joke though, although the guys situation isn't funny at all. A guy asks his gf to marry him and she said yes but he has to get circumcised first. He didn't know what it meant and she explained it to him so he made an appointment with the surgeon and met with him to tell him what he wanted. He was painfully shy and had trouble speaking to strangers anyway, a terrible stuttering problem and would forget words when he was anxious. He was nervous with the doctor and kept stuttering and forgetting what he was trying to say because he was terrified of having surgery down there. The doctor asked him if he was sure about it and the man told him he was 100% sure. After signing some papers for consent he went home and came back to the hospital early the next morning for surgery. After surgery he wakes up in the recovery room and is talking to the man on the next bed. He asks the second guy "What kind of surgery did you have done?" The second guy tells him "I got circumcised". Our guy sits up, snaps his fingers and says "THATS the word!! !"

I had heard about this earlier, but I didn't know that the guy was autistic. Either way, its still very bad.

Apparently, this dentist had done something similar in the past. A woman needed one of her teeth pulled, and this dentist pulled out all of the teeth in her lower jaw. I'm surprised this guy hasn't been fired already. He should be fired, and sued, and perhaps tried for a crime if he knew that he wasn't supposed to pull these people's teeth out.

I do not believe it was an accident. This is a crime.

I would be suing that dentist for malpractice. Any competent dentist would not do something like that even if the patient requested, unless the remainder of the teeth were no longer viable. I am getting ready to have all of mine pulled at age 57 but onl;y after years of dealing with dentist and my dentist finally recommending this action as only two teeth are orth saving now. Luckily I will have the whole procedure done at no cost to me along with the dentures through my local VA hospital because I am a veteran

Have we seen any information to suggest the vitality and viability of the remainder of his teeth? There seems to be an assumption among many posters that the remainder of his teeth were vital and healthy. That might not be the case. If things had reached such a pass that three of his teeth required extraction, and this was not the result of accident or localised disease, then one has to wonder about the state of this unfortunate man's oral and maxilofacial health.

Now, that does not excuse malpractice, and if the patient's consent was anything less than knowledgable and voluntary there is a malpractice issue to be addressed. But calls for the dentist to be "fired" (how do you fire a self-employed professional?!?), sued or charged with an offence seems to me to be jumping the gun.

I think this criminal will get away with it, yes... doesn't make it right.

My wife had needed some extensive dental work done - and due to her insurance, which covers mainly extractions, the dentist she had originally seen had wanted to turn her into a jack-o-lantern - while only in her thirties. So my wife and I shopped around, till we found a dentist very close to our apartment who was willing to remove rotten parts of the front teeth, but leave the teeth remaining. He agreed, someone at my wife's age shouldn't have big gaps in her front teeth.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer