Minnesota Dentist’s License Suspended after Teen Dies

State regulators have temporarily suspended the license of a Twin Cities area dentist who performed oral surgery on a teenage girl who went into cardiac arrest and died. 

According to the Star Tribune, Dr. Paul Tompach allowed a dentist assistant to monitor Sydney Galleger after she received anesthesia, even though the assistant was not certified. 

Th 17-year-old Eden Prairie High School student had her wisdom teeth removed last June at Tompach’s Edina office. 

Her mother said that the teen’s blood pressure shot up, her pulse dropped and she went into cardiac arrest.  She died later at Children’s Hospital. 

The dentistry board was expected to vote Thursday on a “final stipulation order” to which regulators and Tompach have agreed. The details have not yet been released.