Terms of use

Agreement

These terms are an agreement between you and Dental Evidence, which operates the service at https://dentalevidence.com. Creating an account or using the service means you accept them. If you are agreeing for a practice, you confirm you have authority to bind it.

The service is a research tool, not clinical advice

Dental Evidence helps you find and read published clinical literature. It does not practise dentistry, does not diagnose or treat, and does not create a clinician-patient relationship. It does not replace your professional judgment, your own reading of the primary sources, or the standard of care that applies to you.

You remain solely responsible for every clinical decision you make. Verify anything you intend to act on against the cited source and against the guidance that governs your jurisdiction and licence.

We are not responsible for clinical outcomes

You are responsible for the care you provide. To the fullest extent the law allows, Dental Evidence accepts no responsibility and no liability for any clinical outcome connected with your use of the service. That covers any diagnosis, treatment plan, material or product choice, prescription, referral, patient communication, or decision to act or not act that follows from an answer, a cited passage, a practitioner post, or any other content on https://dentalevidence.com.

This applies whether the content was accurate or not, and whether the service was working as intended or not. Nothing you read here transfers clinical responsibility from you to us, and no answer should be recorded or cited as the basis for a decision in a patient record.

Patient safety comes first. Where a patient needs urgent assessment, act on your own examination and your emergency protocols rather than on anything you read here.

What AI-generated answers can and cannot do

An automated system writes the answers by summarising passages from published sources. That system can be wrong. It can misread a source, omit relevant evidence, reflect a study population unlike your patient, or lean on literature that has since been superseded.

Coverage is uneven by design. The corpus holds only material we are licensed to serve, so the service covers some topics well and others barely at all. Where the evidence is thin it declines to answer rather than guess, and an absence of results says nothing about whether a treatment is supported. Treat every answer as a starting point for your own reading.

Eligibility and your account

The service is offered to dental professionals and their staff. Give accurate registration details, including a valid National Provider Identifier where we ask for one, and keep them current. Keep your credentials confidential and do not share your account. Tell us at hello@dentalevidence.com if you believe it has been compromised. You are responsible for activity under your account.

Acceptable use

You agree not to:

• Enter information that identifies a patient, or any data you are not permitted to disclose.
• Scrape, crawl, bulk-download, or otherwise systematically extract the corpus, the passages, or the answers.
• Resell, sublicense, or redistribute the service or its output as a competing product or database.
• Reverse engineer the service, or use it to train or evaluate a machine learning model.
• Interfere with the service, circumvent access or rate limits, or probe its security without our written permission.
• Present output as independent medical authority, or in a way that implies a clinical endorsement we have not given.
• Use the service unlawfully or in breach of a third party’s rights.

Intellectual property

We own the service, its software, and its interface. Subject to these terms, we grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable right to use it for your professional practice.

The underlying literature belongs to its authors and publishers and keeps its own copyright and licence terms. Nothing here transfers rights in that material to you. We provide citations and source links so you can obtain and read the original under whatever terms its publisher sets. You keep ownership of the queries you submit, and you grant us the rights we need to operate, secure, and improve the service.

Subscriptions, trials, and cancellation

Our pricing page describes the paid plans. Trials run for the stated period and convert to a paid subscription only if you choose to continue. Subscriptions renew each billing period until you cancel, and our payment processor charges fees in advance.

You can cancel at any time, effective at the end of the current period. Unless the law says otherwise, we do not refund fees already paid. We may change prices on reasonable notice, and the new price applies from your next billing period.

Availability and changes

We may add, change, or withdraw features, and the service may be unavailable for maintenance or for reasons outside our control. We do not promise uninterrupted access. If we make a material change to these terms we will update the date above and, where appropriate, notify you. Continuing to use the service after that means you accept the change.

Disclaimers and limitation of liability

To the fullest extent the law allows, the service is provided “as is” and “as available”, without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy, and non-infringement. We do not warrant that answers are complete, current, or correct.

To the fullest extent the law allows, neither party is liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for lost profits, revenue, or data. This includes any claim for personal injury, professional negligence, malpractice, or reputational harm arising from a clinical decision, which the section above places with you. Our total liability arising out of these terms is limited to the amount you paid us in the twelve months before the event giving rise to the claim. Nothing here excludes liability that cannot lawfully be excluded.

You agree to indemnify us against claims arising from your use of the service, your breach of these terms, or your clinical decisions, including claims brought by a patient.

Termination

You may stop using the service and close your account at any time. We may suspend or end access if you breach these terms, if your payment fails, or if the law requires it. Sections that by their nature should survive termination will survive it.

Governing law and contact

The laws of [State/Country] govern these terms, and the courts there have exclusive jurisdiction. Send questions to hello@dentalevidence.com.

See also our privacy policy and contact page.