7-year-old girl loses some teeth, part of jaw bone, after dental infection outbreak
By COURTNEY PERKES | cperkes@scng.com | Orange County Register
September 29, 2016 at 10:30 a.m. ORANGE –
Mimi Morales, 7, seemed to recover from a July root canal in only a few days, so her family expected no further treatment when they brought her back to Children’s Dental Group in Anaheim last week after learning of an outbreak of serious dental infections there.
Instead, on Sunday, her father and grandparents waited anxiously at Children’s Hospital of Orange County as the second-grader from Orange underwent surgery to remove infected jaw bone and three permanent teeth that had yet to grow in.
“The doctor said he removed as much bone as he could without disfiguring her,” her grandmother, also named Mimi Morales, said from the girl’s bedside at CHOC on Monday afternoon. “Look at this poor baby, what she’s going through just because of a tooth. I’m just flabbergasted that we’re even here.”
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By COURTNEY PERKES | cperkes@scng.com | Orange County Register
September 29, 2016 at 10:30 a.m. ORANGE –
Mimi Morales, 7, seemed to recover from a July root canal in only a few days, so her family expected no further treatment when they brought her back to Children’s Dental Group in Anaheim last week after learning of an outbreak of serious dental infections there.
Instead, on Sunday, her father and grandparents waited anxiously at Children’s Hospital of Orange County as the second-grader from Orange underwent surgery to remove infected jaw bone and three permanent teeth that had yet to grow in.
“The doctor said he removed as much bone as he could without disfiguring her,” her grandmother, also named Mimi Morales, said from the girl’s bedside at CHOC on Monday afternoon. “Look at this poor baby, what she’s going through just because of a tooth. I’m just flabbergasted that we’re even here.”
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