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Dental Ethics at Chairside: Professional Obligations and Practical Applications
Authors David Ozar, PhD, and Donald Platthoff, DDS, signed and sold their book, Dental Ethics at Chairside: Professional Obligations and Practical Applications, and graciously donated book sale profits to APHC at the Annual Meeting.
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, relatively little assistance is available to dentists and dental students for judging what conduct is ethically best in concrete situations.
For nearly 20 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 14 realistic cases and commentary about dilemmas in dentistry, as well as online resources for further research and study.