Teen dies after dental surgery; mother advocates hospital-based dental procedures
By Lorraine Mirabella, The Baltimore Sun
June 30, 2013
The mother of a Howard County teenager who died after dental surgery wants to see all pediatric dental procedures that use general anesthesia take place in hospitals someday.
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But for now, Cathy Garger hopes to shed light on dangers surrounding routine dental visits that she believes led to the death of her daughter, 17-year-old Jennifer Michelle "Jenny" Olenick, and other pediatric patients. Olenick, a junior at Marriotts Ridge High School, died in April 2011, 10 days after losing oxygen during a wisdom tooth extraction procedure at an oral surgeon's Columbia office.
"I had never heard of anything going wrong in a dentist's office before, so at first when Jenny died, I thought, 'This is a freak accident. This doesn't happen to other people,'" said Garger, who had been a stay-at-home mom to her only child.
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