An Ohio father died after going to the dentist for what was supposed to be a routine procedure. Now, his wife is speaking out.
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In 2023, 48-year-old Matthew Miller went to the Visage Surgical Institute in Medina to have three teeth pulled. However, something went tragically wrong.
His wife, Brandy, told local outlet Cleveland 19 that she and her son waited outside the office. Dr. Faisal Quereshy had been performing the procedure. But the dentist trip proved to be fatal.
"I said, 'Hey doc, how's he doing?' " Brandy recalled. "Then he said, 'Not good.' And I said, 'What do you mean?' she then claimed that Dr. Queresny said, "I gave him the medication and then he stopped breathing and his heart stopped and the paramedics are here working."
"And I reached over for my son and I grabbed his hand and I said, 'Pray, pray now,' " she also continued.
Miller passed away four days later at the hospital. A medical examiner determined the sedation caused him to stop breathing. Meanwhile, the Ohio State Dental Board Hearing Examiner Celia Schnupp claims the dentist failed to give Miller a full medical evaluation.
Dentist Trip Turns Deadly
She also claimed he failed to properly monitor Miller during the procedure.
Meanwhile, Quereshy said he wouldn't handle anything differently. "Nothing in his evaluation with me made me believe that he would be at a higher risk for anesthesia in my office," he said, according to WDBJ 7.
Meanwhile, Brian T. Gannon, the dentist's attorney, said, "I have advised Dr. Quereshy not to comment on the circumstances underlying the pending licensure matter and pending civil litigation."
Ultimately, the Ohio State Dental Board recommended suspending the dentist's license for up to a year after the death.
"With everything that we've found, everything that the dental board has found, he should not be practicing," Brandy told Cleveland 19. "Whatever we need to do to keep this from happening, I don't want anybody to feel what I felt. I don't want anybody to feel what my kids felt, losing their dad at such a young age."
She also doesn't know if she can forgive the dentist.
"As a Christian, I'd want to say, 'I forgive you.' But after seeing his deposition, where he said, 'I wouldn't change anything,' I'm not there yet. I'm not there yet," she told Cleveland 19.
