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Handpiece, Air-Powered, Dental

Adverse-event figures are drawn from the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) MAUDE database, refreshed March 2026, see our methodology.

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openFDA event book Handpiece, Air-Powered, Dental LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE

#485 of 1000 · 2,005 reports · 1992–2026

  • BOOK 2,005 reports
  • RANK #485 of 1000
  • DEATH 0 death-typed
  • INJ 449 injury-typed
  • MALF 1,520 malfunction
  • SPAN 1992–2026
  • PEAK 2022: 157
  • PHOTO Temporary Coronary Sa…

Nearest event-volume peer: Temporary Coronary Saphenous Vein Bypass Graft For Embolic Protection (3 report gap)

Handpiece, Air-Powered, Dental sits #485 of 1000 among tracked device types with 2,005 MAUDE reports spanning 1992–2026. 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 → · 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 22.4% corpus 30.4% · below corpus mean (-8.0 pp)
  • MALF 75.8% corpus 64.5% · above corpus mean (+11.3 pp)

Lead product-problem code Overheating of Device is 41% of coded problems · Top event location is 53% of location-tagged rows .

Handpiece, Air-Powered, Dental in the event-volume neighbourhood

FDA MAUDE report totals among this device type and nearest nationwide peers

reports

What this shows Handpiece, Air-Powered, Dental carries 2,005 MAUDE reports, ranked #485 of 1000.

Source FDA MAUDE via openFDA, aggregated by PlainHospital As of August 2026

Event Types

Malfunction 1,520 (75.8%)
Injury 449 (22.4%)
Other 22 (1.1%)
14 (0.7%)

Patient Outcomes

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

1,216 (60.5%)
Other 557 (27.7%)
Required Intervention 181 (9.0%)
Hospitalization 25 (1.2%)
R 17 (0.8%)
Disability 6 (0.3%)
O 4 (0.2%)
Life Threatening 4 (0.2%)

Top Product Problems

Overheating of Device 505
Detachment of Device or Device Component 424
Mechanical Problem 68
Detachment Of Device Component 61
Use of Device Problem 23
Improper or Incorrect Procedure or Method 18
Insufficient Information 18
Dent in Material 12
Device Handling Problem 12
Temperature Problem 12
Break 10
Device Slipped 10
Misassembly by Users 10
Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem 9
Material Integrity Problem 9
Retraction Problem 9
Component Falling 8
Device Maintenance Issue 8
Excessive Heating 8
Physical Resistance/Sticking 8

Yearly Trend

92
1992: 2
94
1994: 2
95
1995: 3
96
1996: 3
97
1997: 11
98
1998: 3
00
2000: 2
01
2001: 1
02
2002: 22
03
2003: 65
04
2004: 140
05
2005: 8
06
2006: 15
07
2007: 13
08
2008: 19
09
2009: 40
10
2010: 78
11
2011: 96
12
2012: 97
13
2013: 61
14
2014: 73
15
2015: 87
16
2016: 122
17
2017: 153
18
2018: 81
19
2019: 117
20
2020: 94
21
2021: 123
22
2022: 157
23
2023: 116
24
2024: 104
25
2025: 83
26
2026: 14

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Event Locations

1,065 (53.1%)
I 681 (34.0%)
OTHER 139 (6.9%)
OUTPATIENT TREATMENT FACILITY 75 (3.7%)
NO INFORMATION 22 (1.1%)
INVALID DATA 8 (0.4%)
HOSPITAL 6 (0.3%)
UNKNOWN 5 (0.2%)
OUTPATIENT DIAGNOSTIC FACILITY 3 (0.1%)
AMBULATORY SURGICAL FACILITY 1 (0.0%)

Nationwide devices with similar MAUDE profiles

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Handpiece, Air-Powered, Dental, 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 (2,005 here).

Temporary Coronary Saphenous Vein Bypass Gr… 2,008 Collector, Urine, For Indwelling Catheter 2,001 Pancreatic Stent 1,992 Pouch, Colostomy 2,019

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 Handpiece, Air-Powered, Dental 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 Handpiece, Air-Powered, Dental; 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.