<story><title>After simple dental surgery, a man lost his ability to form new memories</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20150630-my-dentist-saved-my-tooth-but-stole-my-memory</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sliken</author><text>I ended up on a several hour car ride with an anesthesiologist, he mentioned that Dentists are often grandfathered in, and often end up doing serious procedures without an anesthesiologist involved.  So while they are focusing on the procedure heart rate, breathing rate, O2, etc aren&amp;#x27;t monitored nearly enough.&lt;p&gt;Apparently getting panicked calls from dentists was not unusual.  In one particular case a 18 year old woman wouldn&amp;#x27;t wake up, he helped as much as he could, but she was never the same.&lt;p&gt;Morale of the story, don&amp;#x27;t let a dentist put you under without an actual anesthesiologist involved.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dathinab</author><text>Which is why a dentist in Germany can give you only a local anesthesia (i.e. you loose feeling in your mouth area but nothing more).&lt;p&gt;If you need a full anesthesia you need to go to a dentist clinic which has a anesthesiologist.&lt;p&gt;Or at last that&amp;#x27;s is the idea, in practice things might not always be that clean cut.</text></comment>
<story><title>After simple dental surgery, a man lost his ability to form new memories</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20150630-my-dentist-saved-my-tooth-but-stole-my-memory</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sliken</author><text>I ended up on a several hour car ride with an anesthesiologist, he mentioned that Dentists are often grandfathered in, and often end up doing serious procedures without an anesthesiologist involved.  So while they are focusing on the procedure heart rate, breathing rate, O2, etc aren&amp;#x27;t monitored nearly enough.&lt;p&gt;Apparently getting panicked calls from dentists was not unusual.  In one particular case a 18 year old woman wouldn&amp;#x27;t wake up, he helped as much as he could, but she was never the same.&lt;p&gt;Morale of the story, don&amp;#x27;t let a dentist put you under without an actual anesthesiologist involved.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tachyonbeam</author><text>So I guess what might be going on here, is partial brain tissue death from lack of oxygen, or something like that? Holy fuck.</text></comment>