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Two doctors lose licences over tooth extraction gone wrong

Extracted tooth

A medical procedure to extract a tooth that led to a cardiac arrest of an 11-year old boy has cost two doctors their private practising licences.

The Medical Practitioners and Dentists Board found Dr Sunil Vinayak and Dr Geoffrey King’ang’a guilty of nine counts of misconduct and professional negligence that almost killed the minor.

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