These tips aim to help dentists uphold professional standards while safeguarding against legal challenges.
Based on our extensive experience providing legal advice to Doctors/dentists and representing them in regulatory proceedings, we have prepared the below list of medicolegal,
legal tips based on actual cases for practice of dentistry.
some real-life medicolegal cases in dentistry along with their implications and potential solutions:
1. *Failure to obtain informed consent*:
*Case*: A patient undergoes a dental implant procedure without being informed of the risks, including the potential for nerve damage. Following the procedure, the patient experiences numbness and pain, leading to a lawsuit for lack of informed consent.
*Implication*: Dentists must ensure patients are fully informed about the risks, benefits, and alternatives of proposed treatments to obtain valid consent.
*Solution*: Implement a comprehensive informed consent process that includes detailed discussions with patients, written consent forms, and opportunities for patients to ask questions.
To be continued…….
Senior Medicolegal Consultant.
DR. VIJAY BALDWA
Senior Dental surgeon n Medicolegal Consultant
B. D. S. (BOM), LLB, LLM, DIM. DHRM, PGDIM
Architect, Prime Mover, Founder President I IDA MUMBAI WSB,
Vice President IDA Maharashtra SB
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