A 4-year-old Houston girl went to the dentist Jan. 7 to have a tooth pulled and ended up with brain damage, according to her family.
KPRC2 reported that Naveh Hall's family is planning to sue.
According to the family's attorney, Jim Moriarty, Naveh is "profoundly brain-damaged and will be for life."
Reports said that Naveh was sedated and began having seizures.
Her dentist, Dr. Bethaniel Jefferson, did not immediately call for help, according to discipline paperwork.
Instead, she gave the patient medication and did not call emergency personnel for several hours, it said.
"For another four hours, this baby is suffering injury and parents aren't allowed to be back until they call 911," Moriarty said.
This is not the first time such paperwork has been filed for Jefferson.
KTRK reported that 2012 records show Jefferson did not sedate a patient properly.
In 2005, records said she did not properly track a patient's pulse and blood pressure.
The Jan. 7 incident led Jefferson to be temporarily suspended by the Texas State Board of Dental Examiners Jan. 20.
"At this point there's nothing else that can be done to get that same 4-year-old back," Naveh's mother, Courissa Clark, said. "It hurts to see her like that."
"It's heartbreaking, Naveh's father, Derrick Hall, said. "I never in a million years would have thought something like this would happen."
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