title: Patient safety in dentistry: dental care risk management plan.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Although the safety of patients has been one of the inherent concerns of dental practice, but because the proposals made in the field of dentistry are few and improperly structured, this paper constitutes an attempt to present a proposal titled "Plan for Dental Health Care Risk Management, " promoted by the General Council of Dentists of Spain, including a description of the proposed work methodology.
  
  
  METHODS
  The "risk management plan " proposed in this paper is based on applying the basic concepts dealt with in patient safety to the field of dentistry, due to the fact that the available bibliography contains no specific "health care risk management plan " for dentistry specifically.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  In order to implement health care risk management in the field of dental care provided at any level throughout Spain, a seven-step plan which covers the main objectives in Patient Safety is provided.
authors.affiliation: School of Medicine, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain. elabajo@med.ucm.es
authors.forename: Bernardo
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Perea-Pérez
authors.forename: Andrés
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Santiago-Sáez
authors.forename: Fernando
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: García-Marín
authors.forename: Elena
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Labajo-González
authors.forename: Alfonso
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Villa-Vigil
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D019647:Oral Surgical Procedures / Q000009:adverse effects; D061214:Patient Safety / Q000592:standards*; D012308:Risk Management