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

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

A North Carolina appeals court has overturned a previous decision in the case of a negligence lawsuit filed after man’s death following dental surgery in

A New York jury has awarded $9.8 million in a malpractice lawsuit filed in March of this year by a man who was hospitalized following

A New York judge has rejected attempts by the dental chain Small Smiles and its owners and some employees to dismiss lawsuits filed by parents

A Southern California dentist and anesthesiologist lost a medical malpractice lawsuit filed by the daughter of a patient who died after being sedated prior to

Guidance Endodontics may have won its breach-of-contract lawsuit against Dentsply International in 2009, but the company is now suing the law firm that represented it