Dental Ethics at Chairside

Professional Obligations and Practical Applications, Third Edition

David T. Ozar, David J. Sokol, Donald E. Patthoff

• Publisher: Georgetown University Press
• Year: 2018
• Print ISBN:
  9781626165533
  9781626165526
• eBook ISBN:
  9781626165540
• Edition: 3
• Topic: Medicine
• Subtopic: Dentistry

In the last two decades, more than ever before dentists must determine how to properly maintain their focus on ethics and professionalism in the face of powerful commercial pressures. 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, 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 and updated. In addition to exploring ongoing and critical issues such as the patient-professional relationship, patients with compromised capacity, confidentiality, justice and the inadequacies of society's health care systems, and dentistry as a business, the 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 realistic cases and commentary about dilemmas in dentistry, as well as online resources for further research and study.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Preface
• 1 The Dental Profession and Professional Ethics
• 2 Professional Ethics, Professionalism, and Patient Trust
• 3 The Questions of Professional Ethics
• 4 The Relationship between Patient and Professional
• 5 The Central Practice Values of Dental Practice
• 6 Ethical Decision-Making and Conflicting Obligations
• 7 Patients with Compromised Capacity
• 8 Working Together
• 9 Bad Outcomes and Bad Work
• 10 Managing an Ethical Dental Practice
• 11 Society’s Health Care Resources and Access to Oral Health Care
• 12 Care of Patients vs. Third-Party Payers and Other Bureaucracies
• 13 The Wrong Message and Why It Matters
• 14 The Obligations of Dentistry’s Professional Organizations
• 15 Self-Formation and Dentistry’s Future: Professionalism or Commercialism
• Appendix: Resources for Dental Professional Ethics and Professionalism Education
• Bibliography
• Index
• About the Authors