Ethics and Law in Dental & Medical Sciences

This book has been created as the outcome of the extensive clinical, academic, and instructive experience of the author in the fields of dental and medical health sciences in various renowned universities and colleges of North American, Asian, and African continents. This book is intended to provide dental office professionals and administrators an important insight into the ethics, law and ethico-legal aspects of the modern-day dentistry, and also understanding of how to deal with these issues that they encounter in their daily dental practice. In the modern times, with technological advancements taking place by leaps and bounds, dental office professionals and administrators must familiarize themselves with the prevailing laws, regulations, and standards that affect their professional decisions in their clinical practice. The knowledge and information conveyed in the book is expected to help understand ethical, legal and professional responsibility and promote ethical conduct in the field of dentistry. It also focuses upon common ethical dilemmas and legal issues and their solutions. The book is intended to provide aspiring students and dental office professionals ethicolegal teaching guide with a set of values that they can carry into their workplaces and modern society having diversity in cultural and ethnical beliefs, with the definite standards of principles and ideals.