Med Oral Patol Oral Cir Bucal. 2014 Sep 1;19 (5):e500-5. Adverse clinical events in dental practice e500 Journal section: Oral Surgery Publication Types: Research

Introduction: The effort to increase patient safety has become one of the main focal points of all health care profes-sions, despite the fact that, in the field of dentistry, initiatives have come late and been less ambitious. The main objective of patient safety is to avoid preventable adverse events to the greatest extent possible and to limit the negative consequences of those which are unpreventable. Therefore, it is essential to ascertain what adverse events occur in each dental care activity in order to study them in-depth and propose measures for prevention