What are FDA adverse event reports for Drill, Dental, Intraoral?

The FDA's MAUDE (Manufacturer and User Facility Device Experience) database collects reports of adverse events involving medical devices. For Drill, Dental, Intraoral, there are 598 total reports including 0 death reports and 97 injury reports. These reports are submitted by manufacturers, healthcare facilities, and patients. A high number of reports does not necessarily mean a device is unsafe, widely used devices naturally generate more reports.

How should I interpret MAUDE data for Drill, Dental, Intraoral?

MAUDE reports are raw adverse event submissions, not confirmed safety findings. A report that a device was involved in a death does not mean the device caused the death. Reports vary in quality and completeness. The FDA uses MAUDE data as one input among many in its safety surveillance, it does not draw conclusions from individual reports. Always consult your healthcare provider about device safety questions.

2025 data FDA MAUDE openFDA

Drill, Dental, Intraoral

Name: Drill, Dental, Intraoral - FDA MAUDE Adverse Event Reports
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Adverse-event figures are drawn from the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) MAUDE database, refreshed March 2026, see our methodology.

Compiled by PlainHospital · August 14, 2026

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openFDA event book Drill, Dental, Intraoral LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE

#811 of 1000 · 598 reports · 1992–2025

BOOK 598 reports
RANK #811 of 1000
DEATH 0 death-typed
INJ 97 injury-typed
MALF 475 malfunction
SPAN 1992–2025
PEAK 2005: 139
PHOTO Pacemaker

Nearest event-volume peer: Pacemaker, Cardiac, External Transcutaneous (Non-Invasive) (1 report gap)

Drill, Dental, Intraoral sits #811 of 1000 among tracked device types with 598 MAUDE reports spanning 1992–2025. Rank counts report volume, not confirmed device fault. Event_type Death / Injury / Malfunction are one code per report — not the same population as patient-outcome rows ( methodology). Read with this device → · Lead manufacturer → · Similar-volume device →

Event-type mix vs corpus

Shares of FDA event_type codes on this device type, compared with the mean across 1,000 device types that have ≥100 MAUDE reports. Codes are report labels, not adjudicated causation.

DEATH 0.0% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-1.5 pp)
INJ 16.2% corpus 30.4% · below corpus mean (-14.2 pp)
MALF 79.4% corpus 64.5% · above corpus mean (+14.9 pp)

Lead product-problem code Break is 44% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer STRYKER INSTRUMENTS KALAMAZOO accounts for 100% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 79% of location-tagged rows .

Instrument

600
Source

599
Drill (this)

598
Pacemaker

597
Endoscope

596
Cutter

593

What this shows Drill, Dental, Intraoral carries 598 MAUDE reports, ranked #811 of 1000.

Event Types

Malfunction 475 (79.4%)

Injury 97 (16.2%)

Other 17 (2.8%)

9 (1.5%)

Patient Outcomes

FDA patient-outcome codes (separate from event_type). Percentages use this chart's row total.

405 (66.9%)

Other 101 (16.7%)

Required Intervention 85 (14.0%)

R 4 (0.7%)

Disability 4 (0.7%)

O 2 (0.3%)

Not Applicable 2 (0.3%)

Hospitalization 1 (0.2%)

Life Threatening 1 (0.2%)

Yearly Trend

1992: 3

1994: 3

1995: 2

1996: 6

1997: 17

1998: 3

1999: 2

2000: 1

2001: 1

2002: 1

2003: 22

2004: 85

2005: 139

2006: 88

2007: 13

2008: 14

2009: 57

2010: 13

2011: 6

2012: 11

2013: 6

2014: 17

2015: 9

2016: 14

2017: 13

2018: 14

2019: 14

2020: 9

2021: 8

2022: 1

2023: 1

2024: 2

2025: 3

Top Manufacturers

STRYKER INSTRUMENTS KALAMAZOO 55

Event Locations

473 (79.1%)

I 56 (9.4%)

HOSPITAL 23 (3.8%)

OTHER 19 (3.2%)

NO INFORMATION 10 (1.7%)

OUTPATIENT TREATMENT FACILITY 7 (1.2%)

INVALID DATA 4 (0.7%)

UNKNOWN 3 (0.5%)

AMBULATORY SURGICAL FACILITY 2 (0.3%)

NOT APPLICABLE 1 (0.2%)

Nationwide devices with similar MAUDE profiles

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Drill, Dental, Intraoral, both floored at ≥100 reports so the neighborhoods stay in the advertised mass.

Similar report volume

Nearest other device types by FDA MAUDE report count (598 here).

Pacemaker, Cardiac, External Transcutaneous 597 Source, Brachytherapy, Radionuclide 599 Endoscope 596 Instrument, Ligature Passing And Knot Tying 600

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (0 here), distinct from the volume row.

Aberrometer, Ophthalmic 0 Accessories, Arthroscopic 0 Accessories, Cleaning Brushes, For Endoscope 0 Accessories, Implant, Dental, Endosseous 0

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Drill, Dental, Intraoral are informational only and are not clinical advice. Report codes do not prove device causation. Consult a qualified clinician before acting on this data.

Every figure on PlainHospital is rendered directly from federal source data, no number is typed in by an editor. Event-type mix on this page is computed from FDA MAUDE codes for Drill, Dental, Intraoral; corpus means use device types with ≥100 reports. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.

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Event-type mix vs corpus