Re:Couple pay >$800k for a gene-editing therapy for their da...
by XorNot on Thursday July 23, 2026 @06:42PM
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I don't know where you're getting that number from. For all dental anesthesia the risk rate seems to be literally 1 in a million [1] and the various law firms which popped up during that search suggested better then 1 in 300,000 at least.
Which also omits the base level mortality of dental complications wisdom teeth are likely to cause.
Re:Couple pay >$800k for a gene-editing therapy for their da...
by sokoloff on Thursday July 23, 2026 @06:52PM
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Table 1 in your link does not support 1 in a million for general anesthesia procedures, unless I’m badly misreading it.
Nor does the discussion section nor overall summary figure, which is 3 in a million for all forms of anesthesia (local, sedation, and general), where you have to at least exclude local anesthesia (the most common type) as having a fundamentally lower risk of death than sedation or GA.
Wisdom teeth removal under general anesthesia is around 1 in 100,000.
It doesn’t sound so crazy if the risks were presented as “only 10x as risky as wisdom teeth extraction”.