Nunavut Iqaluit-A Nunavut woman said her 12-year-old son lost 15 pounds this year while waiting for a tooth extraction. The boy from Rankin Inlet was recently one of more than 1,000 children on the waiting list for dental surgery in the Territory. “He cried day and night and stopped eating,” the woman who asked not to be named told the Canadian Press. “As a mother, watching her child suffer for months is a very difficult experience.” She said a dentist in the community told her in February that her son Howard had a decayed tooth that needed to be removed. The staff anesthetized the boy’s mouth and prepared to remove his teeth, but he was too nervous to remain still.
Wait-list for children s dental surgery in Nunavut has doubled to 1,000
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Hurts so much: Over 1,000 Nunavut children on wait list for dental surgery
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