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At first glance this sounds unusual, but I think this has the potential to happen more than we realize. It's important to take children to a friendly dentist that specializes in treating children. I had a friend who took her daughter to the "Family Dentist" and he ended up slapping his hand over her mouth hard enough to leave an imprint of his hand on her face when she went to get up out of the chair suddenly when he was about to give her a shot to deaden the area he was working on. He didn't seen that many children before and didn't really know how to handle them. She told him off, reported him to the dental board, and took her daughter to a pediatric dentist that was wonderful.

Darwin award, anyone?

I think the mother had more to do with the child's fear than the child. If you noticed in the article the mother had taken the girl to a hospital to have all her teeth removed. Since the girl is already terrified of dentists in general how did that affect her psyche ?

Buried for daily mail.

Is it safe?

are you ***** kidding me....

Open wide! Here comes the airplane!

No seriously, why not just pinch her nose closed and force her to breathe out of her mouth?

This is brilliant, if only all the stupid were killed off at such an early age.. Where were her parents in all of this?

England has such a unique brand of weirdness. Won't open mouth for dentist and dies, hair falls out because of fear of bullies.

How could the mother not know she was going to die when she was refusing to eat anything? Pretty sure eating is a part of staying alive. You don't need a ***** inquest to know what happened.

Part of me thinks "What a tragedy" and another part of me thinks "What a dumbass"

Typical of children to develop phobias, this one just went really far.

A ridiculously unnecessary tragedy.

No mental institutions in Great Britain?

Wait... the mother wants an inquest? How about the fact that all she would eat was WATERMELON!

The mother should have taken her child to the doctor as soon as she realized she wasn't eating healthy.

That's awful.

daily mail coming through again

Her daughter was at home for one month and didn't eat any thing and she is blaming the death on the hospital. The parent should have taken the daughter to a psychiatrist and if that didn't work back to the hospital to be tube fed until she would eat.

Evolution hard at work? Sad about the untreated mental disorder but the parents ought to have noticed their child not eating and done more then just watch for a month.

So... did no one think of an IV feeding drip? Or sedation? wtf

This has less to do with a fear of the dentist and more to do with parental neglect. How do you let your child refuse to eat to the point where they die? Long before that point you taken them to a doctor or look at psychiatric help. Now the mom wants an inquest - like someone else is somehow to blame.

If she's too stupid to realize that you die if you don't eat, then it's probably better that she got it over with now. Good riddance.

Natural. Selection.
Child or not, holy crap.

That's impossible. Intravenous feeding. Even brain dead patients are fed one way or another. This story is completely impossible. You don't survive a month eating bits of watermelon.

And you don't just die over night from a kidney failure either. You get hemodialysis treatments.

I'm confused on why the mother is demanding answers and getting all upset and wondering what happened when the article says the girl refused to eat (except for watermelon I guess). "I'm sorry ma'am, but your daughter died because you never informed us that she wasn't eating!" Not to mention the article says the girl died almost 2.5 years ago!

Holy WOW. I'm a Dental Student, and just today I did extractions in a couple of kids. It was all pretty smooth.
I can not, for the life of me, imagine what this kid might have experienced to induce such a phobia! I mean, who was her Dentist?!

Well that was stupid...

"I am really angry that there has been no inquest. Questions need answering about my daughter's death."
Damn right there should be. The first one would be why did you not take your daughter back to the hospital or to a mental institution.

what a load of crap.. Why didnt the mother take better care of her kid, I cant belive she never thought after even a week of not eating anything that watermelon (?) that she should seek some psychiatric help.

There no inquest because no ones to blame, infact, from what Iv read if anyones to blame its the perents.

It seems like a self curing phobia.
Digg me down if you must.

LOL what a dumb bitch

Gingers don't want to be fed, they want to hunt for souls at night, that's why she died.

So where's the problem? One less nut job to worry about. Hopefully more monkeys will follow.

I bet you a thousand dollars that this stems from her father 'making her put things in her mouth'.
Am I the only who has thought of this?

"I am really angry that there has been no inquest. Questions need answering about my daughter's death."

Here's how this should play out. Mom throws enough of a fit that cops finally do and inquest. Cops perform said inquest, result of which was parental negligence. So my answer to the "questions that need answering" is.... WHERE THE HELL WERE YOU WHILE THIS WAS HAPPENING???

The inquest should be on the parents - how they can let the child starve to death without doing anything.

Daily ***** Mail, just a little less plausable than the UFO story.

Psychonauts anyone?
"Dogen: I know. People are always saying that. What do you think's wrong with my brain, doctor?
Doctor Loboto: How should I know, I'm a dentist. But here's what I do know: if a tooth is bad, you pull it!”

Why is the mother blaming others for her daughter's death? If one of my 4 children refused to eat due to a phobia, I would be doing everything in my power (therapy, tube feeding, whatever) to help him/her. It is the parents responsibility to safeguard the life of the child. She should have been intervening far before her child was that starved.

Being British I suppose her fear of the dentist is understandable.

Not much shocks me on the Web anymore, but digg has finally done it. How can so many people talk about an 8 year old mentally ill girl as 'stupid', 'a waste of air', and say 'good riddance'. Some of you people seriously need to look at yourselves. This girl had a severe mental disorder and instead of getting her treatment, her parents let her die from it. Can you imagine having a mental illness so powerful that you sat and starved yourself to death slowly over a month? How is that funny? Honestly, when you laugh and say 'thank god she can't breed' in response to the death of an 8 year old girl at the hands of neglectful parents you seriously need to seek professional help or at least educate yourself a little bit. It's no wonder so many of the severely mentally ill are homeless and live a life of emptiness.

FTA: "Then one day I went to her room and found her cold. We called an ambulance but she was already dead. I am really angry that there has been no inquest. Questions need answering about my daughter's death."

I agree, there should be an inquest into your negligence you horrible parent.

Yes there should be an inquest, and the mother should be arrested for allowing her daughter to waste away for a month all the while blaming the hospital.

By the looks of most people in the U.K. fear of the dentist is -very- common.

with those British-tea-infested teeth; who would open wide?

lolpwnt.

Haha is all i have to say. Natural Selection FTW.

no such thing as a mental institution?