An oral surgeon in Ohio who is being sued for the 2023 wrongful death of a 48-year-old patient had his dental license suspended indefinitely and his anesthesia permanently revoked, according to multiple news stories.
The Ohio State Dental Board took this action against Dr. Faisal Quereshy to adequately protect the public. The disciplinary action follows the death of Quereshy's patient, Matthew Miller, who died four days after he stopped breathing during a tooth extraction at Quereshy’s practice, the Visage Surgical Institute in Medina.
Quereshy has the right to appeal the board’s decision.
In August 2023, Miller went to the Visage Surgical Institute to have three teeth pulled under general anesthesia.
The dental board alleged that Miller was morbidly obese, placing him at high risk of respiratory arrest during the extractions. Also, the board claimed that his condition required a full physician evaluation prior to the procedure, which Quereshy didn’t obtain.
Furthermore, the dental board claims that Quereshy administered anesthesia and gave Miller medications “one after the other without any pause between administration to assess effectiveness and then, within minutes, placing a throat pack and starting surgery.” Miller then lost a pulse and went into cardiac arrest.
Also, the dental board claimed that Quereshy didn’t give Miller reversal agents to counter the narcotics and benzodiazepines he was given. Miller was taken to a local hospital and died four days later. It was determined that Miller’s cause of death was acute hypoxic respiratory failure due to procedural sedation.
Moreover, the dental board claimed that Quereshy changed or allowed someone to change Miller’s preoperative anesthesia records the day after the procedure.
