Indiana man wakes up to find dentist has pulled all his teeth

A routine visit to the dentist turned into the stuff of nightmares last month for Donny Grigsby of Indiana.

A dentist pulled every last one of Grigsby’s teeth out of his mouth – erroneously, Grigsby’s family says.

His wife, Amanda, told WRTV in Indianapolis her husband went in to have four teeth pulled. After five-and-a-half hours of waiting, she demanded to know what was going on.

What she saw next shocked her. Her husband had blood all over him. His eyes were droopy. He was unresponsive.

And all of his teeth were gone.

She was told that the dentist was afraid that infection in one abscessed tooth would spread to the others, so he pulled all of Grigsby’s teeth.

An ambulance took Grigsby to the hospital. Amanda Grigsby said he flatlined twice on the way.

“He had been put into a medically induced coma, and he was laying there crying,” she told WRTV.

Her husband doesn’t remember anything about what happened, but definitely knows what he’s lost. He’s on oxygen now because of blood clots resulting from the procedure, the family claims.

“I am so ashamed now. I have no teeth,” he told WRTV.

The family plans to sue the dentist, Aaron Strickland of Columbus, Ind.

A statement issued on the dentist’s behalf over the weekend said while patient privacy laws prohibited him from commenting on the case, “every patient and issue is different and we evaluate each and every part of the oral cavity and the health of the patient before presenting a treatment plan.”

As for Grigsby?

“I just want to get teeth in my head and go on,” he said.

This story was originally published April 12, 2016 at 12:39 PM with the headline "Indiana man wakes up to find dentist has pulled all his teeth."