Dental injuries during general anaesthesia: can the dentist help the anaesthetist?

TY - JOUR

T1 - Dental injuries during general anaesthesia

T2 - can the dentist help the anaesthetist?

AU - Chadwick, R. G.

AU - Lindsay, S. M.

PY - 1998/3

Y1 - 1998/3

N2 - Endotracheal intubation is widely used in anaesthesia. Although it offers many advantages to the anaesthetic management of patients, this procedure carries the possibility that damage to the teeth may result. Dental damage in fact accounts for one-third of all medicolegal claims against anaesthetists and, although this problem has been widely discussed in anaesthetic circles, few dental articles have addressed the problem.

AB - Endotracheal intubation is widely used in anaesthesia. Although it offers many advantages to the anaesthetic management of patients, this procedure carries the possibility that damage to the teeth may result. Dental damage in fact accounts for one-third of all medicolegal claims against anaesthetists and, although this problem has been widely discussed in anaesthetic circles, few dental articles have addressed the problem.

UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/0032014114

M3 - Article

C2 - 1998132370

AN - SCOPUS:0032014114

SN - 0305-5000

VL - 25

SP - 76

EP - 78

JO - Dental Update

JF - Dental Update

IS - 2

ER -