Abstract:
During practices in health care, patients could be seriously
harmed by either conscious or unconscious wrong approaches
of the clinicians. In this report, we discuss a malpractice case
and the results of the malpractice on an adult female patient
with anterior open bite.
A 23-year-old female patient was admitted to our hospital
of faculty of dentistry complaint with anterior open bite and
toothache. Patient history revealed that 2 years ago posterior
teeth were shortened by a clinician without a prosthetic
restoration until her anterior open bite disappeared. However
not only the problem relapsed but also the shortened teeth
needed root canal treatment which are also done by another
clinician. Besides it has been learned that temporomandibular
joint problems occur after these treatments. Thorough clinical
and radiological examinations, it was decided that patient
needs a multidisciplinary problems which must be solved
together with departments of orthodontic, endodontics,
restorative dentistry, prosthetic, oral and maxillofacial
surgery and implantology. Indeed only an orthodontic and
surgical treatment was generally enough to treat anterior open
bite cases, as a result of malpractice this case get complicated
which needs very complex treatments.
The treatment method performed by the clinician for treatment
of anterior open bite, both ignored the morphological,
functional, ethological facts of orthodontic treatments for
such patients and also led to dental pain, damage and loss of
function. This kind of an approach does not correspond with
any ethical, scientific, or esthetical criteria.
