Dr. Mazorow to retired after killing second patient-Marissa Kingery

 

It’s a damn shame he’s retiring and not having his dental licenses revoked as it should be.

 

Friday May 27, 2011
By KELLY METZ
kmetz@MorningJournal.com

ELYRIA — Dr. Henry Mazorow, the dentist performing oral surgery when a 13-year-old patient became ill and later died, has announced he will voluntarily retire from practicing effective Sept. 1.

Marissa Kingery died from the lack of oxygen to the brain, Cuyahoga County Coroner’s Office spokesman Powell Caesar said. Powell could not provide further comment about the results, but did say the death was accidental.

Kingery, of Elyria, was having baby teeth removed in Mazorow’s office on Dec. 21, 2010, when she was rushed to Mercy Regional Medical Center. She was later taken to Rainbow Babies and Childrens Hospital in Cleveland and placed on life support, but never recovered. She died Jan. 3.

Mazorow, who has an office at 209 W. 21st St., Lorain, appeared before the Ohio State Dental Board this week and announced he would be retiring, according to dental board records. While his official retirement date is set for Sept. 1, he has also agreed to limit his dental practice by not administering any form of general anesthesia or conscious sedation to any patient in the interim.

According to the voluntary retirement form, Mazorow made the decision to retire last month.

Mazorow announced he would stop using general anesthesia in January following Kingery’s death, his attorney Ron Mingus has said. Mingus could not be reached for comment yesterday.

Mazorow has been practicing since 1956. There are no disciplinary actions on his record.

Mazorow’s office declined comment yesterday.

Miciah Bonzani - Another Teenager Dies During Dental Treatment

update: May 28, 2011

The dentist’s who killed Miciah Bonzani May 4, 2011 was Dr. Raymond Seitz and had been Miciah's dentist for 12 years.

It was just the dentist and his receptionist that worked in the office do this procedure.
 
Miciah's sister had her wisdom teeth removed the month prior to Miciah.  According to her , there were no monitors, no pulse/ox, no heart monitor and she didn't recall seeing an Automated External Difibulator (AED)/Crash cart of any kind.   


Question still remain as to whether CPR was even performed on Miciah until the paramedics arrived.

On Angie's List, it says "Surgery is not performed at this site"
Dr. Raymond Seitz, DMD
General Dentist
2797 Leechburg Rd
Lower Burrell PA 15068
724-339-3220
According to Dr. Raymond Seitz he carries a Anesthesia Permit-Restricted II license.


Here is the application for a Restricted II license in Pennsylvania:  Application. 
According the the Restricted II license Dr. Raymond Seitz is only allowed to administrate Nitrous Oxide (laughing gas), nothing more!!





A fundraiser is being held July 9, 2011:

 Visit the Miciah Bonzani Memorial Run facebook page by clicking here.


There is another child death for 2011, I believe that makes 4 so far.  Miciah Bonzani from outside Pittsburgh died May 5, 2011.  Story plus video at the link below.
New Kensington Teenager Dies Unexpectedly - News Story - WPXI Pittsburgh
I will be updating when I can dig up more details. 
Prayers to her and her family. 
God help us!

Know your ABC’s-Small Smiles Office Managers being rated, promoted and/or fired.

Are you a Small Smiles office manager?  I’m told you are being graded as we speak.

A’s – you will get a promotion and be called a “Practice Administrator”, I know your dentists are going to love you even more.

B’s- you will be promoted to A’s.

C’s- expect termination

Don’t waste your time and call HR – Brandon Dyson, he’s resigned I’m told.

Texas "Chop Shops"

Below is a report from WFAA-TV reporter Byron Harris on illegal dental clinics in Texas. But it's not just "chop shops" like these that are operating illegally,just about every corporate owned clinic in Texas is illegal in one way or another.

WFAA TV
Report Byron Harris
May 20, 2011

Illegal dentistry entrenched in North Texas
MESQUITE - Illegal dentistry performed by unlicensed dentists used to happen in back rooms with makeshift equipment, where vulnerable customers gambled on low-quality care.

While the problems with quality are still there, what used to be an underground business is becoming an entrenched business.

Illegal dentistry is now an institution, with thriving permanent clinics practically daring authorities to take action.

Just off Central Expressway in Richardson, a neon "open" sign blinks for new customers. Inside, a dentist from Coahuila, Mexico requires cash up front, even though she's not licensed to practice in Texas or the United States.

In Mesquite, smack in the middle of a residential neighborhood, a three-bedroom house has been an established clinic for five years. It has security fencing, a parking lot and surveillance cameras - in part to insure the safety of the all-cash business. Inside, there are three dentist chairs and patients say at least one X-ray machine.

The property is owned by Rogelio Esparza. His brother, Arturo, said he is a dentist in Mexico, but does not practice here. That does not account for a bag of what appeared to be dental waste found in the parking lot.

Former Compliance Officer for Small Smiles Dental Centers, Allison Luke, is on the hunt for a J O B.

 

Post Job Free resume.

In case anyone needs to know anything about her:

ALLISON K. LUKE, JD, CHC *** *th Avenue N. #***
Nashville, TN 37203
(404)***-**** (mobile)
wzetss@r.postjobfree.com
Primary Areas of Expertise
All aspects of healthcare compliance, generally, and strong knowledge of federal and state laws and regulations affecting healthcare providers, facilities and systems, including Federal and State False Claims Acts, Federal Anti-kickback and Stark laws, Medicare and Medicaid Regulations, HIPAA, and others;
Corporate compliance program development and implementation, including Corporate Integrity Agreement implementation; compliance investigations, resolutions, and development/implementation of corrective action plans; development of compliance audit programs, including creation of audit tools, and determination of audit criteria and implementation of compliance audits; policy development and training for healthcare providers; and
Representation of hospitals, healthcare systems, home health agencies, dental practices, and other healthcare providers in compliance investigations before federal and state authorities.

 

Some dentists reluctant to treat kids on Medicaid

I don’t know why, other than they have not been reading this blog!  Otherwise they would know exactly how to set it up!

 

May 23, 2011
Dentists Reluctant To Treat Kids On Medicaid, by Maureen Salamon HealthDay Reporter

Dental mills concentrated with nitrous oxide, are you in danger-yes; your children-yes, them too.

 

There is a problem with high levels of exposure to Nitrous Oxice.  Two studies done along with the ADA showed a higher incidence of hepatic, renal and neuralgic disorders among exposed personnel.  More importantly it showed an increase in spontaneous abortions in chairside assistants and the wives of dentists.  It also showed an increase in congenital abnormalities in children of assistants.  These two studies pointed to a problems for females who were pregnant and working in dental offices where nitrous oxide was used.
Cohen et al., 1980; Brodsky et al., 1981

In another study, Swedish midwives exposed to nitrous oxide showed they had trouble getting pregnant if they were exposed to Nitrous Oxide more than 30 times a month. G Axelsson, G Ahlborg, Jr, L Bodin Occup Environ Med. 1996 June; 53(6): 374–378.

Adverse Effects of Nitrous Oxide

Mom of 6 year-old, Jacobi Hill, Plans to Sue VCU Medical Center

 

Mom of 6 year-old Plans to Sue VCU Medical Center - wtvr

RICHMOND, VA (WTVR) - The mother of a 6-year-old boy who died after a dental procedure last May says she plans to sue VCU.

"People say it gets easier day by day. No, it doesn't", says Crystal Lewis.
One year later, Lewis, the mother of 6 year-old Jacobi Hill still wonders why a simple dental procedure killed her son.

"It's always going to be a question in the back of my mind like, what happened, but I guess we'll never know until I get to the bottom of things", she says.

An Intelligible Principle To Restrain Unelected Government Officials

 

An Intelligible Principle To Restrain Unelected Government Officials

Leave out the adjectives and adverbs and it’s informative and shows exactly what is happening from Congress all the way down to your local City Counsel, stopping at state agencies and boards, like your state Dental Board, along the way.

Jenny Olenick died in April. Here is a statement sent to us from Jenny’s mother on May 14, 2011

"During the April 17 Celebration of Jenny's life I told the young people present not to worry about having dental procedures because Jenny's death was a freak accident.
That's what I truly thought at the time. But after learning there are at least 8 other children in the nation who have died as a result of dental procedures in US dental offices within the past 1 1/2 years, I no longer see this as a "freak" accident.
I now look at dental office-related deaths as relatively common, and believe these are needless deaths that could have been prevented.

These children did not have to die. And if we wish to honor these childrens' memories, we need to make certain not one more child dies as a result of having a procedure done in a dentist's office".
Cathy Garger, Mother of Jenny Olenick.

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17 year old Jenny Olenick dead during oral surgery–April 6, 2011–Freak Accident? Not anymore!
(written Thursday May 12, 2011, prior to receiving the statement from Jenny’s mom.  Blogger was down and was not able to post until today.)
Marriottsville, Maryland

Jennifer Michelle Olenick died April 6, 2010. Jenny went into a coma on March 28, 2011 during a wisdom tooth extraction being performed by Dr. Domenick Coletti.

When the dental community is averaging killing one child a month, it’s not a freak accident!
Answers sought in dental surgery death of Howard County teen

By Kellie Woodhouse kwoodhouse@patuxent.com
The state Medical Examiner’s Office is investigating the death of a 17-year-old Marriotts Ridge High School junior, who died last week after complications arose during routine wisdom tooth surgery.

Jennifer “Jenny” Michelle Olenick, of Woodstock, an aspiring professional singer, went to a Columbia oral surgeon on March 28 for a tooth extraction procedure and went into cardiac arrest during surgery, her mother said.

She was taken by ambulance to Howard County General Hospital and then flown to Johns Hopkins Hospital, in Baltimore, where she died 10 days later, on April 6.

Cathy Garger, Olenick’s mother, said her daughter’s sudden death was baffling.

“Her heart tests at Hopkins showed normal functioning of her heart. She was in the best of health,” said Garger, who accompanied her daughter to the surgery with Olenick’s father, John Olenick.

Dr. Domenick Coletti, the Columbia-based oral surgeon who performed the operation with the assistance of an anesthesiologist, said he was “deeply saddened” by Olenick’s death.