Premier symposium details

Dental Protection is pleased to announce the date for the thirteenth annual Premier Symposium. Organised by Dental Protection, an international leader in dental risk management, and schülke, the European leader in cross-infection control, this year’s Premier Symposium will take place on Saturday November 23 at The Shaw Theatre in Euston Road, London.

Professor Tara Renton

The difficult extraction - Anticipating and managing complications in oral surgery

Oral surgery continues to feature prominently in the cases managed by DPL and very often the allegations include a failure to recognise the potential difficulties that might be encountered when extracting a tooth, and possible complications arising thereafter. This in turn leads to further vulnerability for the clinician in terms of whether or not any consent obtained from the patient was valid, given that you can only warn a patient of risks that you are aware of yourself.

Howard Lloyd

The difficult RCT - Anticipating and managing endodontic complications

Endodontics (and especially, molar endodontics) remains the biggest single source of negligence claims involving dentists. One of the keys to avoiding these problems is developing the ability to recognise the potential risks and complications of undertaking the endodontic treatment of individual teeth, in specific situations, and the moments when a different approach needs to be adopted in order to minimise these risks.