Benefiting patients and the wider public? Alternatively, due to clinicians being under constant scrutiny by different organisations we are observing the practice of ‘Defensive Dentistry’. This is where dental clinicians are inappropriately referring cases into secondary care service due to the fear of receiving patient complaints despite correctly explaining treatment risks during the valid consent process. Although these clinicians are not breaking regulators standard as they are claiming to be working within their own competencies what this is actually doing is causing patients to experience longer waiting times and an overall poorer service - thus they are causing harm to not only their patient but members of the wider public who actually