--- title: "17:24 ETDentistry Claims: August Malpractice Risk Review--Insights to Reduce Patient Harm and Malpractice Exposure" type: "News" locale: "en" url: "https://longbridge.com/en/news/294875178.md" description: "The Doctors Company released its August Malpractice Risk Review for dentistry, analyzing claims data to identify key risk areas. The report highlights technical issues like retained foreign bodies as primary drivers of patient harm and negligence allegations. It also emphasizes the critical importance of timely diagnosis and biopsy for oral cancer to improve patient safety and reduce malpractice exposure." datetime: "2026-08-04T21:25:13.000Z" locales: - [zh-CN](https://longbridge.com/zh-CN/news/294875178.md) - [en](https://longbridge.com/en/news/294875178.md) - [zh-HK](https://longbridge.com/zh-HK/news/294875178.md) --- # 17:24 ETDentistry Claims: August Malpractice Risk Review--Insights to Reduce Patient Harm and Malpractice Exposure , /PRNewswire/ -- The Doctors Company, the nation's largest physician-owned medical malpractice insurer, today released "Dentistry Claims: August Malpractice Risk Review," the newest edition in a monthly series of specialty-focused analyses designed to support patient safety and clinical risk management. Each month in 2026, The Doctors Company will explore malpractice risk trends in a different medical specialty, offering evidence-based insights drawn from real claims data to help clinicians and healthcare leaders better understand how patient harm occurs and why negligence allegations arise. "Dentistry Claims: August Malpractice Risk Review," available at thedoctors.com/dentistryMRR, brings together three complimentary analyses that highlight key areas of risk within dental practices: - **Contributing factors to patient harm:** Identifies common drivers of dentistry claims, which are primarily driven by technical issues, including technical performance issues associated with known complications, such as retained foreign bodies. - **Negligence allegations:** Analyzes negligence allegations in dentistry to help dentists and staff proactively identify and address risk. - **Case summary for delayed diagnosis of oral cancer:** Emphasizes the importance of vigilant surveillance, timely biopsy, and clear communication with patients who present with persistent or recurrent oral lesions. It underscores the impact of delayed diagnosis on patient outcomes and the need for adherence to specialty guidelines. "Understanding how and why adverse events occur is essential to improving patient safety and reducing risk across healthcare," said Julie Ritzman, MBA, CPHRM, Senior Vice President, Patient Safety and Risk Management, The Doctors Company, part of TDC Group. "Our monthly Malpractice Risk Review series delivers actionable insights grounded in real malpractice claims data, helping clinicians and healthcare leaders identify vulnerabilities, strengthen communication, and support safer patient care." **About The Doctors Company** Founded and led by physicians, The Doctors Company (thedoctors.com) is relentlessly committed to advancing, protecting, and rewarding the practice of good medicine. The Doctors Company helps hospitals and practices of all sizes manage the complexities of today's healthcare environment—with expert guidance, resources, and coverage—and is the only medical malpractice insurer with an advocacy program covering all 50 states and the federal level. The Doctors Company is part of TDC Group (tdcg.com), the nation's largest physician-owned provider of insurance and risk management solutions. TDC Group serves the full continuum of care, from individual clinicians to academic medical systems—more than 200,000 healthcare professionals and organizations nationwide—with direct written premiums of over $2.5 billion annually and $12 billion in assets. To learn more about our data-driven insights and to stay up to date on industry trends, follow and subscribe to The Doctors Company on X (@doctorscompany), YouTube, LinkedIn, and Facebook. **Copyrighted by and used with permission of** **Candello** **a division of The Risk Management Foundation of the Harvard Medical Institutions Incorporated, all rights reserved.** SOURCE The Doctors Company ## Related News & Research - [11:19 ETEon Appoints Matthew Lungren, MD, MPH, to Board of Directors](https://longbridge.com/en/news/296375443.md) - [Asker Healthcare Group buys Baltic medtech distributor Ambercell Solutions](https://longbridge.com/en/news/296306272.md) - [What Springer Nature KGaA (XTRA:SPG)'s OpenEvidence AI Integration Means For Shareholders](https://longbridge.com/en/news/296023301.md) - [Stride Consumer Partners adds Annie Lai, Alexa Tsai as associates](https://longbridge.com/en/news/296027202.md) - [Dental Innovation Alliance executives discuss DSO-driven dentistry shift on ADSO podcast](https://longbridge.com/en/news/296264252.md)