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ANTIOCH, Calif. -- The death of a 3-year-old while he was undergoing a dental procedure was a homicide, ruled the Sacramento County Coroner.
The California Dental Board and the district attorney are now investigating the circumstances of how the boy died last summer in the dental office, reported KCRA-TV in Sacramento.
A dentist who conducted the procedure, William Martin Nielsen, has been practicing and treating patients at his Antioch, Calif., office during the six months since the death of 3-year-old Rogelio Campos-Crespo, of Brentwood, Calif.
According to authorities, the little boy was being prepped to have crowns placed on decaying teeth when something went wrong.
The Sacramento County Coroner's report said that "the decedent's nose and mouth were covered by the dentist's hand to calm him, while a 4-by-4 gauze pad or sponge ... was left behind in the mouth," which caused him to smother and likely choke on the gauze pad during the dental procedure. The pad had been left behind in the mouth and acted as a gag, according to the report.
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