A Georgia dentistry practice used a ‘papoose board’, a controversial restraint device, on a five-year-old girl while carrying out an oral procedure. Now, the dentist office is under scanner for using the device. But, it has stated that parents sign consent forms allowing them to use it.

It has come to know that the clinic, Smiles-R-Us in Carrollton, being run by Dr. Jamey Chung puts in use this device to restrain ‘uncooperative’ children when dental treatment is going on. Father James Crow and his mother took his daughter Elizabeth to the dentist to get her front tooth extracted.

They were not allowed in the examination room, so they were asked to sit in the waiting room. All of a sudden, they heard someone screaming. Crow even enquired, but was told that he was allowed to see his daughter.

Elizabeth's grandmother Evelyn Crow said, “We were sitting out in the waiting room and all of a sudden, we heard somebody screaming”. But then also, Crow entered into the exam room and saw his daughter strapped on the table and no one there to attend her.

Crow said he could not see his daughter in such a condition. She was all strapped and he could not handle it. A spokesperson with the Georgia Board of Dentistry said that there are no rules against the practice of using the device.

But there are warnings as physical or psychological harm can take place. Elizabeth's grandmother asked the medical office as to why they have used to device. To this, they replied that Elizabeth was ‘not cooperating’, so they had to use it.

The Crows said that they do have signed the consent form, but they are also claiming that they have not authorized them to use the device.