Neville Gillespie
Neville Gillespie, father of three has died.
The man bled to death after up to about ten teeth were removed during a trip to the dentist.
According to The Sun UK, Neville Gillespie, 53, died just hours after an operation at Tiverton Dental Centre – where he had six more teeth extracted than originally planned.
Neville, a former lorry driver – described as someone who “would do anything for anyone” – returned to the practice a few hours later when his mouth failed to stop bleeding.
But he was then sent away with wads of cotton wool, his brother Harold Gillespie, 60, told the court.
Neville with one of his kids
The Sun UK reports that relaying the horrific night at an inquest into his brother’s death, Harold said hours later he woke to find Neville slumped over and covered in blood.
Harold, who lived with his brother in Tiverton, Devon, said: “I called 999 who were talking me through how to give him CPR.”
Ambulance crews arrived just before 2am and paramedics described in a report to the coroner how the bed sheets were “soaked with blood.”
Blood was also splattered over Neville’s shirt and in his stubble.
A post mortem said he had died from aspiration of blood and bleeding following a dental extraction on January 22 last year.
At the inquest held at Devon County Hall in Exeter on Thursday, coroner John Tomalin heard Mr Gillespie was due to have just four teeth taken out.
He has been on a blood-thinning drug Clopidogrel which the coroner was told would make it difficult for clots to form to heal the sockets where teeth had been extracted.
The procedure was performed at Tiverton Dental Centre in Devon
The dentist Dr Roya Doane told the coroner the first four teeth were easy to extract.
But she said she was concerned for his welfare, suggested taking the additional four teeth out to save the patient further trips to the dentist.
Mr Neville agreed and asked for a further two teeth to be removed as they were causing him pain.
The coroner heard a report from a dental expert who said this was an act of “kindness” by Dr Doane and said she had not been negligent in her practice and the standard of care given was satisfactory in his opinion.
But another academic said that three to four teeth would have been advisory for removal, rather than ten.
Mr Gillespie was given advice on how to stop bleeding from Dr Doane and was told not to spit out blood as this would disrupt the formation of blood clots.
Evidence heard during the inquest found Mr Gillespie had been vomiting blood, according to his brother, and had been spitting into a bowl.
The coroner recorded a verdict of death as misadventure.
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