Every health care practitioner from Hippocrates to our own day has had to deal with questions of ethics in the effort to serve patients properly and well. The dental professional is no different. For nearly a decade, it has had sound ethical reflection on its side in the form of Dental Ethics at Chairside .
In issues ranging from ordinary chairside decision making to HIV/AIDS and ethical business practices, the first edition of this book has guided thousands of dentists, dental hygienists, students, and other oral health care practitioners to an understanding of the essential practice of ethics.
Now a revised, updated, and expanded edition of Dental Ethics at Chairside responds to the challenges of oral health care in the new century with chapters on managed care, confidentiality and electronic record-keeping, among other important topics.
The book contains no figures.

David T. Ozar, David J. Sokol

United States, United States of America

2 Sub edition, September 2002

Second, US, 2002

xv, 343 pages ; 26 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-330) and index
The dental profession and professional ethics -- Profession and professional obligation -- The question of professional ethics -- The relationship between patient and professional -- The central values of dental practice -- Ethical decision making and conflicting obligations -- Ethical issues in the dental practice -- Patients with compromised capacity -- Education and cooperation -- Bad outcomes and bad work -- Working together -- HIV and AIDS in patients and dentists -- Confidentiality and patient records -- Social justice and access to dental care -- Third-party players and managed care -- Dentistry as a business -- The dental profession and the community

To an unprecedented degree, dentists today are facing difficult ethical questions with far-reaching consequences.

2023-06-28