Dental negligence in clinical practice

Abstract

Negligence' is derived from the Latin word 'Neglego' or 'Neglect.' Professional negligence arising from medical/ dental negligence is an absence of a reasonable degree of care and skill or negligence of a dental practitioner in the treatment of a patient, which causes injury or death.3 In dental clinics there may be negligence in making a wrong diagnosis, failure to obtain informed consent, failure to order X-ray in cases where the history suggest impacted tooth, a broken file in tooth, performing more task than the patient consent for unprofessional procedure, mercury poisoning while doing dental filling is also considered as negligence.2 Related articles were searched in PUBMED and Google scholar database and a total of 12 articles were reviewed from 2002 to 2018. Human values and ethical principle guide our profession and prevent the practitioner from any act of dental negligence.

Failing Forward: Stability of Transparent Electrodes Based on Metal Nanowire Networks

“…For instance, work by Estrada and Pop suggests that regions of extreme heating in CNT junctions play a critical role in CNT network failure and that, in general, junctions have a significant impact on transport, thermal dissipation, and network durability. [ 123 ] This is consistent with two theoretical works by Chen and Kumar [ 124 ] and by Kumar and Murthy [ 125 ] suggesting that junctions in CNT systems are significant bottlenecks in thermal transport. Though carbon nanotube junction behavior can provide some insight into nanoscale junction behavior in general, a comparable analysis for MNW junctions is required to fully understand the underlying mechanisms and impacts of junctions on the overall network properties.…”

Fabrication of europium substituted hydroxyapatite coating on polyindole-5-carboxylic acid coated titanium for bone implant applications

“…To improve the bone-implant contact, a bone like calcium phosphate-based hydroxyapatite (HAP) generally used as coating material for implants [6,7]. Further, to improve the biocompatibility nature of HAP, substitution of ions is usually adopted [8,9]. Currently, biomaterial-based infections are more and are difficult to treat which often leads to revision surgery.…”

“…Eu 3+ is a most significant and interesting element in the treatment of bacterial infection. It is also used in the enhancement of the biocompatible property of the hydroxyapatite [8,9]. Prior to the fabrication of bioceramic over the metallic implant, a layer of polymer is developed so that it will protect the metallic implant against corrosion and enhance the adhesion strength of the Eu-HAP coatings onto the metal substrate [12].…”