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Owais Khalid Durrani1, Noeen Arshad, Ulfat Bashir
1Department of Orthodontics, Riphah International University.
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The purpose of this article was to analyze the various factors responsible for iatrogenic damage to a patient in an orthodontic practice and to advise precautions to prevent such damage.
Methods:
All case reports describing iatrogenic damage published in all orthodontic journals indexed on PubMed and the related articles of all these case reports published in any journal.
Conclusions:
Good preventive practices can reduce and even completely eliminate the damage produced by the orthodontic operator.
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