Clinical Dental Risk Management: The Needs and Challenges

• Main Authors: Didin Mirandani, -, Taufan Bramantoro, -, Dini Setyowati, -
• Format: Article PeerReviewed
• Language: English; English; Indonesian; Indonesian
• Published: Ektodermal Displazi Grubu 2021
• Subjects: R Medicine; RK Dentistry
• Online Access: https://repository.unair.ac.id/115869/1/15.%20PDF_Clinical%20Dental%20Risk%20Management.pdf; https://repository.unair.ac.id/115869/2/15.%20Turnitin_Clinical%20Dental%20Risk%20Management.pdf; https://repository.unair.ac.id/115869/3/15.%20Validasi_Clinical%20Dental%20Risk%20Management.pdf; https://repository.unair.ac.id/115869/4/15.%20Bukti%20Submitted-Accepted_Clinical%20Dental%20Risk%20Management%20The%20Needs%20and%20Challenges.pdf; https://repository.unair.ac.id/115869/
• Institution: Universitas Airlangga

Clinical risk management has always been a concern in dental practice. Ensuring patients receive safe and qualified dental care services is of importance to achieve the desired outcomes. The purpose of this narrative review is to capture the needs and challenges of clinical dental risk management to minimize the risk of adverse incidents in dental practices. The review demonstrates the deficiency in knowledge and awareness of situations that places the patients to be at risk among dental practitioners. There is a need for a system to identify, mitigate, and prevent circumstances that increase the likelihood and consequence of risks and harm to patients in dental practices. Deployment of clinical dental risk management is of great importance to both dental practitioners and patients. It puts a great emphasis on best practices in addition to promote patient safety and avoid legal liability.