A Minnesota woman, Kathleen Wilson, filed a lawsuit in Hennepin County District Court alleging Dr. Kevin Molldrem of Eden Prairie, Minn. provided negligent treatment during a visit back in July 2020.
As reported by PEOPLE, Wilson claimed Molldrem conducted 32 procedures on 28 teeth during the single visit, including four root canals, eight dental crowns, and 20 fillings.
In the lawsuit, Wilson says she suffered “significant injuries” from the procedures and continues to endure “pain and suffering, embarrassment, emotional distress and disfigurement as a direct result of Dr. Molldrem’s negligence.” She is seeking at least $50,000 in damages. Molldrem has not yet filed a response in court and did not respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment on the allegations.
Supporting Wilson’s complaint of what can only be called an example of extreme dentistry is the testimony of an expert witness hired by her attorney. Dr. Avrum Goldstein D.M.D. FRCD(C), who currently serves on the faculty at Touro College of Dental Medicine, reviewed Wilson’s dentistry records and submitted his findings, which Weimer filed with the court.
In his report, Goldstein agreed with Molldrem’s diagnosis that “virtually every tooth” of Wilson’s was decayed and the work was necessary. However, Goldstein believed that Molldrem’s attempt “to fill every hole in every tooth in her mouth in one visit” was “not humanely possible to achieve” and repairing 28 teeth in a single visit is “impossible to achieve if … done properly.”
Goldstein also alleged that the amount of anesthesia Molldrem gave Wilson was “grossly exceeding what would be considered safe.” Goldstein advised the maximum dosage of anesthesia he would give was 490 mg; Molldrem gave Wilson nearly twice that amount – 960 mg – per her records, according to Goldstein. He also claimed that Molldrem falsified the records with respect to how much anesthesia he gave her, and that Wilson was “fortunate” not to experience any side effects.
Goldstein concluded that if Wilson’s teeth needed to be removed and replaced with implants, then “all of the work that was done and all of the expense associated with it will have been for nothing”. Furthermore, she may still require additional dental work.
Molldrem has been a practicing dentist for over 20 years, per the Molldrem Family Dentistry website.
