Dental ethics at chairside : professional obligations and practical applications

Ozar, David T. (author.). Sokol, David J., (author.). Patthoff, Donald E., (author.).

Summary: While there is encouragement for ethical conduct within the dental profession, there is still relatively little assistance available to dentists and dental students for judging what conduct is ethically best in concrete situations. For many years David Ozar's Dental Ethics at Chairside has served as an invaluable resource for tens of thousands of dentists and dentistry students, and this third edition of the gold standard in the field is thoroughly revised an updated. In addition to exploring ongoing and critical issues such as the patient-professional relationship, patients with compromised capacity, confidentiality, justice and health care systems, and dentistry as a business, this third edition addresses emerging ethical issues related to conflicts of interest, dental professionalism, advertising and social media, the serious indebtedness of graduating dental students, bad outcomes and bad work, the explosion of aesthetic dentistry, acquiring new skills and new technology, the impact of the market on the professional-patient relationship, and many others. The book includes fourteen entertaining cases and commentary about dilemmas in dentistry, as well as online resources for further research and study.

Record details

ISBN: 162616553X
ISBN: 9781626165533
Physical Description: xiv, 358 pages ; 26 cm
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Edition: Third edition.
Publisher: Washington, DC : Georgetown University Press, [2018]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

The dental profession and professional ethics -- Professional ethics, professionalism, and patient trust -- The questions of professional ethics -- The relationship between patient and professional case -- The central practice values of dental practice -- Ethical decision-making and conflicting obligations -- Patients with compromised capacity -- Working together -- Bad outcomes and bad work -- Managing an ethical dental practice -- Society's health care resources and access to oral health care -- Caring for patients v. third-party payers and other bureaucracies -- The wrong message and why it matters -- The obligations of dentistry's professional organizations -- Self-formation and dentistry's future: professionalism or commercialism.