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4 December 2013
A member's experience of dealing with a serious breach of infection control involving a previously used bracket.
1 August 2012
Breaking the law can cause long term issues!
Student caught breaking the rules by taking pictures!
22 December 2010
This case concerns a female patient with an extremely complex dental history. She had been born with a cleft lip and palate, and had undergone cleft lip repair within her first year, and cleft palate repair by bone graft to the upper alveolus at age 11.
A male patient in his 40s underwent the extraction of LL5, LL7 and LL8, but suffered a severe post-extraction infection, resulting in the need for emergency drainage under general anaesthesia at hospital.
In the mid-1990s a general dental practitioner member examined a male patient with a heavily restored dentition. The patient had porcelain jacket crowns on both upper central incisor teeth. Radiographs taken three years later showed these teeth to have been restored using tapered cast posts supporting the overlying crowns.
21 December 2010
A dentist had concerns that a colleague’s clinical performance was becoming increasingly inconsistent.
A dentist received a request from the police to provide them with a report on a teenage girl’s dental condition. The member had seen the girl as an emergency appointment at the practice a few weeks earlier, after she had reportedly been involved in a fight after school.
A patient complained to her local PCT that her dentist, a DDU member, had not carried out any treatment to address the pain she reported. The patient also complained that the practice failed to respond to her initial complaint.
At a new patient consultation, a dentist, a DDU member, noted that the man in his 60s had heavily restored teeth which required some remedial work. UR6 was in poor condition and, in the dentist’s opinion, required crowning.