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Saliva, Artificial

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 Saliva, Artificial LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE

#960 of 1000 · 411 reports · 2007–2026

  • BOOK 411 reports
  • RANK #960 of 1000
  • DEATH 18 death-typed
  • INJ 296 injury-typed
  • MALF 9 malfunction
  • SPAN 2007–2026
  • PEAK 2016: 68
  • PHOTO Manometer

Nearest event-volume peer: Manometer, Spinal-Fluid (0 report gap)

Saliva, Artificial sits #960 of 1000 among tracked device types with 411 MAUDE reports spanning 2007–2026. 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 →

Malfunction reports sit below the device-type norm

Saliva, Artificial carries 2.2% MALFUNCTION-coded reports, 62.6pp below the 1,000-device-type mean, the widest gap of its three event codes. Codes are report labels, not adjudicated causation.

  • DEATH 4.4% corpus 1.5% · above corpus mean (+2.9 pp)
  • INJ 72.0% corpus 30.3% · above corpus mean (+41.7 pp)
  • MALF 2.2% corpus 64.8% · below corpus mean (-62.6 pp)

Lead product-problem code Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem is 44% of coded problems · Top event location I is 59% of location-tagged rows .

Saliva, Artificial in the event-volume neighbourhood

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

reports

What this shows Saliva, Artificial carries 411 MAUDE reports, ranked #960 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Injury 296 (72.0%)
Other 76 (18.5%)
Death 18 (4.4%)
12 (2.9%)
Malfunction 9 (2.2%)

Patient Outcomes

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

Other 299 (64.4%)
Hospitalization 52 (11.2%)
O 46 (9.9%)
19 (4.1%)
Death 19 (4.1%)
Life Threatening 13 (2.8%)
Required Intervention 5 (1.1%)
L 4 (0.9%)
H 3 (0.6%)
Disability 3 (0.6%)
S 1 (0.2%)

Top Product Problems

Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem 178
Insufficient Device Problem Information 73
Improper or Incorrect Procedure or Method 52
Patient-Device Incompatibility 50
Product Quality Problem 11
Use of Device Problem 10
Device Operates Differently Than Expected 7
Appropriate Device Problem Term/Code Not Available 5
Device Expiration Issue 4
Nonstandard Device 3
Device Handling Problem 2
Human-Device Interface Problem 2
Application Program Problem: Medication Error 1
Aspiration Issue 1
Contamination /Decontamination Problem 1
Defective Device 1
Device Displays Incorrect Message 1
Device Inoperable 1
Expiration Date Error 1
Improper Flow or Infusion 1

Yearly Trend

07
2007: 2
10
2010: 1
11
2011: 5
12
2012: 7
13
2013: 37
14
2014: 19
15
2015: 28
16
2016: 68
17
2017: 51
18
2018: 37
19
2019: 40
20
2020: 34
21
2021: 30
22
2022: 15
23
2023: 10
24
2024: 14
25
2025: 11
26
2026: 2

Reports in 2025 (11) held close to the prior two-year average of 12.

Related Entities for Saliva, Artificial

Event Locations

I 241 (58.6%)
134 (32.6%)
NO INFORMATION 35 (8.5%)
OTHER 1 (0.2%)

Nationwide devices with a comparable volume-and-death footprint

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Saliva, Artificial: nearest by total report volume and nearest by death-typed count, each floored at ≥100 reports so the neighborhoods stay in the advertised mass.

Similar report volume

Nearest other device types by FDA MAUDE report count (411 here).

Manometer, Spinal-Fluid 411 Mass Spectrometry 411 Pliers, Surgical 412 Processor 410

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (18 here), distinct from the volume row.

Adaptor 18 Agent, Occluding, Vascular, Permanent 18 Agents 18 Prosthesis 18

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

Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Saliva, Artificial 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 Saliva, Artificial; 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.