What three year old needs four root canals? Dentist should be charged with murder.

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16. As a dentist of 34 years, may I offer an opinion?

We do not have the radiographs or evidence in this case, so what this child needed to have done is unknown.
Primary teeth DO have roots, and root canals are indicated for vital,. cariously exposed teeth. If the tooth is non-vital or abscessing, then it must be removed.
Performing endodontics on children is routine and justified for many many reasons. Period.
The nature of the anesthesia practices are what need to be examined by those competent to render an opinion. I will tell you that there are quite a few practitioners who render Grade Z services in this regard and should not be doing so. I will also tell you that I voluntary suspended my anesthesia permit, which I was grandfathered into, and do not administer any systemic anesthetics or analgesics including Nitrous oxide for exactly the reason that is occurring in this thread: if anything were to happen, I would be tried and convicted by the masses who do not have one iota of an idea of what is appropriate and inappropriate in evaluating clinical situations and results, good or bad.