Efficacy, tolerability, and safety of an innovative medical device for improving oral accessibility during oral examination in special-needs patients: A multicentric clinical trial.

Background: People with special needs have high unmet oral healthcare needs, partly because dentists find it difficult to access their oral cavity. The Oral Accessibility Spatula aims to improve oral accessibility. This prospective multicenter interventional open-label non-randomized patient-self-controlled trial assessed the ability of the spatula to improve the oral accessibility of special-needs patients during dental examinations.

Paracetamol Misuse and Dental Pain: Results from the French Observational DAntaLor Study.

Aims: To evaluate the risk of hepatotoxicity due to unintentional paracetamol misuse in patients with acute dental pain.

Methods: A prospective multicenter observational survey was performed in patients consulting, without appointment, the odontology departments of three main French hospitals in the Lorraine region over a 3-month period. Patients were asked to fill out a medical questionnaire while seated in the waiting room.

[An atypical case of tetanus with oral entry].

This article reports a case of atypical tetanus localised exclusively in the head, with an oral point of entry very rare nowadays. With reference to this case, we describe the pathophysiology, clinical forms and the treatment of this infection. It is therefore essential that every practitioner, in the presence of a trismus, should consider the possibility of tetanus.

Current practices for release of medical information.

Are practices governing release of confidential medical information changing? This article presents a case study of current release of medical information policies and procedures.