Novel Methods for the Assessment of Crack Propagation in Endodontically Treated Teeth

Karteva, Ekaterina; Manchorova, Neshka; Stefanova, Vesela; Atanasov, Marin; Atanasov, Angel; Pashkouleva, Dessislava; Kanazirska, Petya; Babeva, Tsvetanka; Madjarova, Violeta; Vladimirov, Stoyan B

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“…Table 1 shows the number of adverse actions taken against dentists in Texas over the fifteenyear study period. According to Shulman, et al, an increase in the number of adverse actions against dental professionals were thought to be due to hospitals, agencies, and state boards becoming more familiar with the reporting requirements [13]. A decline in the number of adverse actions, on the other hand, may represent an actual decrease or may be due to leniency on the part of state boards, hospitals, professional societies, and other authorities in enforcing discipline or reporting their activities.…”

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“…The reason for this is unclear but may be due to smaller out-of-court settlements made to avoid more expensive outcomes. The indemnity insurer may negotiate for an out-of-court settlement and payment as a part of a business decision and may even overrule the objection of the defendant practitioner [13]. Yisi, et al, found that the majority of oral surgery litigation claims were concluded by an out-of-court settlement [20].…”

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“…The study concluded that dental malpractice settlements have generally kept pace with inflation over the past decade. According to NPDB, an adverse action is an action taken by a board of registration in dentistry against a practitioner's clinical privileges and malpractice payments is a monetary exchange as a result of a settlement or a claim demanding monetary payment for damages [13]. The current paper is intended to serve as an evaluation of the trends in malpractice payments and adverse actions made against dentists in Texas over a fifteen-year period of 2006 to 2020.…”

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Malpractice Payments and Adverse Actions against Dentists in Texas-A Fifteen-Year Trend Analysis

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2022

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Objective: Health practitioners are potentially subject to malpractice claims against them and previous research has indicated that legal proceedings against dentists are becoming a larger proportion of all malpractice payments against healthcare professionals in the United States. The objective of this study is to describe trends in the number of malpractice payments and adverse actions made against dentists in the state of Texas over a fifteen-year period from 2006 to 2020. Methods: Data regarding the adverse actions and malpractice payments against dentists was retrieved from the National Practice Data Bank for the years 2006-2020. The data set included adverse actions such as loss of clinical licensure, loss of clinical privileges or panel memberships, drug enforcement administration license and Department of Health and Human Services-Office of the Inspector General exclusion (i.e., exclusion from federally funded health programs). We exported all data into data visualization tools which we used to study and report trends. The University of Michigan Medical School Committee on Human Studies determined our study was not regulated and exempt (HUM00116742). Results: The number of adverse actions against dentists in Texas rose from 2006 (75 actions) to 2015 (164 actions) followed by a downward trend until 2020 (70 actions). The number of malpractice payments against dentists had an inverse relationship with adverse actions between 2006 – 2014 and again 2017 – 2020. However, during 2014 – 2016 there was a concurrent increase in malpractice payments and adverse actions. Loss of clinical licensure was the most common (91.23%) adverse action, followed by Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) action (3.77%), Health and human services – exclusions by the Office of the Inspector General (HHS OIG) exclusion (1.68%) with the least common being cancellation of clinical privileges/panel memberships (1.33%). Conclusion: The number of malpractice payments against dentists followed a loosely inverse relationship with adverse actions.

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Malpractice Payments and Adverse Actions against Dentists in Texas-A Fifteen-Year Trend Analysis

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“…The Swept Source Optical Coherence Tomography (SS-OCT) is one of these SD developments and uses a wavelength-tuned nearinfrared laser as the light source, thus providing improved imaging resolution and scanning speed. In laboratory studies, itIt was reported that SS-OCT has ability to differentiate between carious and sound tissues in both primary and permanent teeth, estimate the lesion depth in demineralized tissues, observe gaps at tooth-restoration interface and defects in dental restorations and detect tooth cracks [13]. In a study by Holztman and colleagues, SS-OCT was used also used as a diagnostic tool for the detection of occlusal fissure depth and the completeness of PFS penetration via rudimentary visual qualitative evaluation of OCT images [14].…”

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Sealant Penetration into Occlusal Fissures: An In-Vitro Optical Coherence Tomography Study

Sukumaran¹

2022

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Objective: This study was designed to use Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) to quantify depth of occlusal fissures on premolar teeth and to quantitatively evaluate the penetration of pit and fissures sealants relative to fissure depth. The study aimed to evaluate the penetrability of Pit and Fissure Sealant (PFS) in covering the full-depth of different occlusal fissure depths using Swept-Source Optical Coherence Tomography (SS-OCT). Methods: Ninety-seven investigation sites on f occlusal fissures of fifteen premolar teeth with International Caries Detection and Assessment System (ICDAS) scores of 01 or 02 were categorized using SS-OCT into four groups (smooth, shallow, intermediate, and deep fissures). After PFS placement, cross-sectional images of these fissures were observed again with SS-OCT. Results: The result of this study shows that PFS can fully penetrate the smooth fissures (100%) followed by shallow fissures (94.2%) and intermediate fissures (47.6%). Incomplete full depth PFS penetration can be seen in all deep fissures (100%). Conclusion: The depth of the fissure will largely affect the penetrability of PFS into the fissure.

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Novel Methods for the Assessment of Crack Propagation in Endodontically Treated Teeth

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Malpractice Payments and Adverse Actions against Dentists in Texas-A Fifteen-Year Trend Analysis

Malpractice Payments and Adverse Actions against Dentists in Texas-A Fifteen-Year Trend Analysis

Sealant Penetration into Occlusal Fissures: An In-Vitro Optical Coherence Tomography Study

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