2026 data FDA MAUDE openFDA FDA Class I

Positioner, Tooth, Preformed

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

OpenFDA device adverse-event casebook.

FDA Class I (lowest regulatory risk tier, general controls), regulated under 21 CFR §872.5525 (Dental panel).

FDA MAUDE casebook

openFDA event book Positioner, Tooth, Preformed LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE

#538 of 1000 · 1,674 reports · 2001–2026

  • BOOK 1,674 reports
  • RANK #538 of 1000
  • DEATH 0 death-typed
  • INJ 1,519 injury-typed
  • MALF 153 malfunction
  • SPAN 2001–2026
  • PEAK 2026: 713
  • PHOTO Catheter

Nearest event-volume peer: Catheter, Percutaneous, Neurovasculature (5 report gap)

Positioner, Tooth, Preformed sits #538 of 1000 among tracked device types with 1,674 MAUDE reports spanning 2001–2026. 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 → · Lead manufacturer → · Similar-volume device →

Injury-coded reports run above the device-type norm

Positioner, Tooth, Preformed carries 90.7% INJURY-coded reports, 60.4pp above the 1,000-device-type mean, the widest gap of its three event codes. Codes are report labels, not adjudicated causation.

  • DEATH 0.0% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-1.5 pp)
  • INJ 90.7% corpus 30.3% · above corpus mean (+60.4 pp)
  • MALF 9.1% corpus 64.8% · below corpus mean (-55.7 pp)

Lead product-problem code Sharp Edges is 25% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer STRAIGHT SMILE LLC accounts for 66% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 98% of location-tagged rows .

Positioner, Tooth, Preformed in the event-volume neighbourhood

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

reports

What this shows Positioner, Tooth, Preformed carries 1,674 MAUDE reports, ranked #538 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Injury 1,519 (90.7%)
Malfunction 153 (9.1%)
Other 2 (0.1%)

Patient Outcomes

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

Required Intervention 691 (24.2%)
R 407 (14.3%)
O 393 (13.8%)
Disability 389 (13.6%)
S 379 (13.3%)
Other 367 (12.9%)
222 (7.8%)
Hospitalization 3 (0.1%)
Congenital Anomaly 1 (0.0%)

Top Product Problems

Sharp Edges 738
Patient-Device Incompatibility 711
Device Appears to Trigger Rejection 593
Defective Device 576
Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem 95
Inadequacy of Device Shape and/or Size 64
Unintended Movement 55
Lack of Effect 26
Structural Problem 17
Break 13
Insufficient Device Problem Information 10
Crack 8
Fitting Problem 7
Application Program Freezes or Fails to Launch 4
Improper or Incorrect Procedure or Method 3
Patient Device Interaction Problem 3
Unknown (for use when the device problem is not known) 3
Difficult to Remove 2
Fracture 2
Material Fragmentation 2

Yearly Trend

01
2001: 1
02
2002: 1
03
2003: 1
04
2004: 1
06
2006: 1
07
2007: 1
08
2008: 2
09
2009: 3
10
2010: 2
11
2011: 3
12
2012: 2
13
2013: 2
15
2015: 2
16
2016: 2
18
2018: 5
19
2019: 3
21
2021: 71
22
2022: 19
23
2023: 4
24
2024: 376
25
2025: 459
26
2026: 713

Reports rose to 459 in 2025, up from an average of 190 in the two years before - a recent-year increase, not a lifetime pattern.

Related Entities for Positioner, Tooth, Preformed

Top Manufacturers

Event Locations

1,636 (97.7%)
I 30 (1.8%)
NO INFORMATION 4 (0.2%)
HOSPITAL 3 (0.2%)
UNKNOWN 1 (0.1%)

Compare STRAIGHT SMILE LLC vs STRAIGHT SMILE, LLC →

Nationwide devices with a comparable report-volume footprint

Positioner, Tooth, Preformed carries zero death-typed MAUDE reports, so the peer set below compares report volume only; both axes are floored at ≥100 reports so the neighborhood stays in the advertised mass.

Similar report volume

Nearest other device types by FDA MAUDE report count (1,674 here).

Similar death-typed counts

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

Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Positioner, Tooth, Preformed 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 Positioner, Tooth, Preformed; 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.