Dental Ethics at Chairside: Professional Principles and Practical Applications

by David T. Ozar, David J. Sokol

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.

272 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1994

Reviews

[Daniel Margolis · Rating 5 out of 5]

While a lot of the conclusions represent the conventional wisdom in dentistry or are somewhat self-evident, the book does an excellent job working through the logic for each step. It does tackle some complex issues and handles them well. An excellent framework in which to think through ethical problems one might come across in the practice of dentistry.

[TJ · Rating 1 out of 5]

Phil 462 Social Health Care Ethics
A lot of information that I already knew. One way to improve the book would be to edit and remove a lot of extraneous wording.

Phil 472 Clinical Health Care Ethics