Diagnosis Errors in Oral Surgery: What Should We Learn from This Medical Error? |Biomedgrid

Medical errors could happen anywhere and anytime in the health care system: In hospitals, clinics, doctors' offices, pharmacies, and patients' homes. Scientific literature indicates that such problems widely involve medicines, lack of current scientific evidence regarding treatment, diagnosis, equipment, or lab reports. Medical errors leading to adverse events can occur in dental practice, and especially in oral surgery. The purpose of this paper is to bring out one aspect of errors in oral surgery: diagnostic errors or failures. This subject is rarely discussed in the world of dentistry with lack of references about it in medical literature. The authors report five clinical cases that were wrongly diagnosed either due to omission of careful preoperative examination, or due to a clinical experience's deficiency