At least 60 patients treated by an Oklahoma dentist, who was labeled a “menace to public health,” have tested positive for either Hepatitis C or HIV, Tulsa health officials say.…
An Oklahoma oral surgeon has been labeled a “menace to public health” by state officials, after it was discovered that he put thousands of patients at risk of blood borne…
Researchers in Maryland have confirmed that excessive use of zinc-based denture adhesive cream may cause neurological damage and other problems from zinc poisoning.
About $200,000 in dental products made by Rite-Dent Manufacturing Corp. were seized by U.S. Marshals after federal regulators determined that they were unsafe for public use.
A federal judge has reduced a jury’s award of $8 million in a recently decided Fosamax lawsuit to $1.5 million, deeming the damages awarded to be excessive. The plaintiff must…
While the third Fosamax bellwether lawsuit is scheduled to go to trial next month, the federal judge presiding over the consolidated litigation has indicated that at least two more cases…
A former sterility processing employee says that supervisors at a St. Louis VA medical center ignored warnings that they were practicing improper sterility procedures a year before the facility was…
The American Dental Association (ADA) indicates that it is continuing to monitor issues surrounding problems with zinc denture cream, which has been linked with serious and debilitating injuries for some…
A Florida woman has filed a dental malpractice lawsuit against a dentist who she says left part of a metal drill bit in her head for 11 months.
A medical malpractice lawsuit has been filed against two Chicago dentists after they allegedly failed to diagnose cancer on the tongue and mouth of a patient.
