The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California granted summary judgments in favor of Invisalign maker Align Technology in two antitrust class action
In what appears to be a tragic medical oversight at Cork University Hospital (CUH) in Ireland, a 33-year-old woman from Kanturk died following complications after
A dentist in Maryland accused of assaulting a woman multiple times over a year has had his trial delayed to March due to new evidence,
The 74-year-old man who allegedly tried to kill himself after shooting a dental assistant multiple times at her workplace in December has been indicted, according
A hearing examiner is recommending that an Ohio oral surgeon, who faces a lawsuit over a man who went into cardiac arrest during a dental
The attorney general in Texas has launched investigations into Colgate-Palmolive and Procter & Gamble for illegally marketing fluoride toothpaste to parents and children in ways
Dear DrBicuspid Member, A stainless-steel rubber dam clamp used during a root canal may have led to cortical necrosis in a healthy 22-year-old woman’s mandibular
About 1% of medical malpractice cases filed against U.S. oral and maxillofacial surgeons stem from temporomandibular joint (TMJ) surgeries, according to a recently published study
An oral surgeon in Michigan must pay $2.75 million in a medical malpractice case for reportedly injuring a 32-year-old’s carotid and lingual arteries, leaving him
A periodontist must pay approximately $1.3 million in a malpractice case in which a procedure to extract a molar in preparation for an implant resulted in
As a board member for a malpractice insurance company, I review claims submitted by oral and maxillofacial surgeons who use anesthesia in their private practices.
Dear DrBicuspid Member, Before we get into the week’s new and most-read articles, earlier this week we learned of the passing of our former columnist
