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Have You Ever Known Anyone Who Died Of An Abscessed Tooth?


And if it was due to infection, was the infection soley to blame from the abscessed tooth?


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  1. #1 by jamrdh70 on February 6, 2010 - 7:59 pm

    This case happened earlier this year, very sad!
    Chicago—March 1, 2007—The Washington Post, on Wednesday, February 28, 2007, reported that a twelve-year-old boy in the Washington D.C. area, Deamonte Driver, had died of complications resulting from an untreated dental abscess, after bacteria from the untreated tooth had spread to his brain. Deamonte had undergone two brain surgeries and more than six weeks of hospital care. This story highlights what the Surgeon General called in 2000, a “silent epidemic” of dental disease that affects our most vulnerable citizens–poor children, the elderly, and many members of racial and ethnic minority groups
    JAMRDH -a dental hygienist

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  2. #2 by Paulie D on February 6, 2010 - 9:55 pm

    It is possible that the infection got into the bloodstream and the person died of sepsis.

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