Dental malpractice

  Informed consent is the approval of the patient, We hear it a lot in surgery or in operation more than in dentistry, but now informed consent is really a very important part of the dental practice that protect the dentist and it’s very important part to your patient. Your patient has the right to know the procedure and what is the complication that may happen.     So the term "informed consent" is a process by which the patient is apprised (informed) of the nature and risks of a proposed treatment, including no treatment or observation only, and then accepts a treatment plan (consents).   What’s happening in our countries that we are proposing that procedure for the patient, not explaining what could happen after it and didn’t give him options of other treatment and this will make him so struggled and will lead to some sort of mistake but when you explain that to the patient and you get all these approval on a written consent we call it informed consent.   Informed

  Dental negligence is a type of medical Negligence for which compensation can be claimed when careless or incorrect dental work results in personal injury.   When the doctors become nervous they will make personal injury due to careless or some sort of incorrect dental work .   One of the best procedure and which is very important in dentistry is anesthesia and it may be some sort of a very terrified procedure to your patient (frightened from the needle) but they don’t know that the dentist and specially us when we are practicing in the fourth year might be much more afraid than them when we are injecting the anesthesia.   The dr. Talked about his colleague (she was a female) when they were in the fourth year and at cons medical session and she wants to give a patient a block anesthesia (ID BLOCK) and she was afraid coz it was the first time to give anesthesia and the dr was beside her, she gave the anesthesia to the patient (old man) and asked him in Arabic (3mo 7ases b 5ada

  Dental malpractice is a real problem that all patients have to look out for, the same as medical malpractice.   Dental negligence is an injury or a wound due to negligent dental work, failure to diagnose or treat probable precarious oral conditions, delayed diagnosis or treatment of oral disease or other precarious oral conditions, as well as any malevolent or otherwise intentional misconduct on the dental professional's part.   Dental malpractice is no joke. People can sustain permanent or temporary injuries to the nerves of the lips, chin, tongue and jaw. Victims can experience temporary or permanent numbness or loss of taste sensation and, they can experience Temporomandibular Joint disorder. TMJ symptoms include pain in the jaw, and a severe loss of function of the jaw, making it very difficult to speak or eat.   These accident can occur in any health profession as we are all human, but when we pay for professional health treatment we count on our treatment to be of hi