Months later, Nevaeh is still suffering from the permanent brain damage caused by the 7+ hours she was under 5 sedatives administered by Dr. Jefferson. The 4 year old who was once full of life and laughter, can no longer talk, walk, see, or even eat. She has been diagnosed with involuntary muscle contractions and is hospitalized while her family tries to cope with the fact that their little girl will never be the same.
“It’s like a bad dream. It really is. Just that quick. It’s something that can’t be changed. At all”, said Derrick Hall, father of Nevaeh.
“Clinics across America, across Houston, across Texas use the same business model every day to over treat these children and use these restraints. And the standard is exactly what happened here, separate mom and dad from their child, assuage their fears, take the child back, over-treat them and get away with it. We’ve got to get the American public to understand you cannot allow your child to be held in a restraint device without you personally being present” said Attorney Moriarty.
The Texas Board of Dental Examiners has temporarily Dr. Jefferson’s license and her license revocation hearing is still pending as of March. Unfortunately, this isn’t the first time the board has had to reprimand Dr. Jefferson. In 2005, Dr. Jefferson failed to properly keep track of a patient’s pulse and blood pressure. In 2012, she failed to properly sedate a young patient, which has now happened again to Nevaeh. The family plans to sue both Dr. Jefferson and the Diamond Dental office.
How is it that doctors need
4+3 yrs of special training to give sedatives in a hospital setting and you are letting someone with no experience sedate a child??? A dentist should treat teeth, not use sedatives.
I’m so sorry that you went through all u did at such a young age. You can’t see, eat, walk, talk, play, laugh …nothing! Its so sad! Its even more sadder that they give just anyone a license to do such a thing to a child! Meaning it or not, you have a license which means we trust you with our kid(s) not to take their entire life away and get away with it. If there are more dentist offices around using these medications and the same procedure? My advice is that they see what a stupid mistake you’ve done and that they learn from that. I have a 4 yr old daughter with 10 cavities, maybe even more… She has 2 broken teeth which one is starting to really bother her and it scares me, seeing this? Just made it harder for me to even make her a regular dentist appointment. I hope they resign you and take away all certificates and license you have because its clear NO ONE can trust you with ANYONE’S life. How do you even sleep at night? Knowing this poor girls parents can’t even read their baby girl a bedtime story because she can’t hear, can’t wait for her arms to wrap around there neck because she can’t even give them a hug. God works in mysterious ways, he is the healer of all healers, and she WILL be normal again. It might take a very long time but he’s coming to give her what someone has taken away from her..