Patient safety and ethical attitudes among dentistry and dental assisting students: a cross-sectional study

Given the small effect sizes, the results should be interpreted with caution. Both dentistry and dental assisting students showed positive safety attitudes, with assisting students consistently achieving higher scores. However, deficiencies in ethical awareness and error reporting highlight the need for targeted educational efforts, particularly for dentistry students, and support the integration of system-based safety and ethics modules into dental curricula.The cross-sectional design and use of convenience sampling limit the generalizability of the findings.