A California dentist who treated a 9-year-old girl hours before she died following a routine procedure was placed on probation years prior for another procedure mishap, documents show.
Back in 2020, Dr. Ryan Watkins was disciplined over a 2016 incident in which a 54-year-old man’s heart stopped after Watkins put him under anesthesia during a dental procedure.
According to a complaint filed with the Dental Board of California, Watkins engaged in “unprofessional conduct” after “clearly excessively administering drugs or treatment” to the patient, identified only as “MK.”…