A woman died from multiple organ failure two days after a dentist’s appointment to get a broken tooth fixed, an inquest has heard.

Mandy Parish, 44 and lived with her partner in Albion Road in Idle, later began to feel sick.

Within 48 hours she died in the intensive care unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary despite medics’ best efforts to treat her for breathing difficulties and septic shock.

The inquest heard that it was likely that it was bacteria released into her blood during the procedure which progressed to septicaemia and multiple organ failure. However, Acting Bradford Coroner Professor Paul Marks said Miss Parish had cirrhosis of the liver, despite not drinking for two years, and the condition would have made her vulnerable to infection.

ICU consultant Dr Paul Kramp, who treated her at the BRI, said given she had been fit and well before visiting the dentist and the short time it took to fall ill suggested the two were “related”.

Her partner, Mark Huckerby, who had arranged the dental appointment at Rawdon Road Dental Surgery in Rawdon for her on June 27, said she had been “perfectly well.”

Giving evidence, now retired dentist John Clark said the procedure had not been invasive.

But Professor Marks, who said the dental treatment she received had been appropriate, said even just scaling and brushing of teeth can release bacterium.

He questioned why the dentist had not given her an advice leaflet. Mr Clarke replied: “We give out leaflets for extractions and other surgical procedures.”

But Mr Huckerby insisted: “I don’t believe she would have been ill if she had not been to the dentists.”

After the inquest Mr Huckerby said he was considering legal action and added: “She should not have died, this should not have happened. It’s all so bizarre.”

Giving a narrative verdict, Prof Marks said: “Her pre-existing cirrhosis of the liver would have made her more vulnerable to infection and in the absence of other competing sources of infection and the temporal relationship of her final illness to the procedure it is likely that the procedure resulted in a bacterium which progressed to septicaemia and multi organ failure.”