and Angela J. Yoon1 (1) Columbia University College of Dental Medicine and Department of Pathology and Cell Biology, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, USA The cause of nutritional deficiencies…
1. Asking Dr Diamond to defend his policy 2. Consulting with other staff to see if they concur that the practice is unacceptable and jointly asking Dr Diamond to permit…
The AIDS epidemic has posed so many controversial ethical issues for dentistry that virtually all of the important problems of this book could be addressed in the context of bloodborne…
In two previous chapters we have looked systematically at the problems of balancing harms and good (chapter 6) and allocating scarce resources (chapter 10). Often the good that needs to…
Schools of dentistry, like other academic settings, provide a context for many ethical problems, including cheating on examinations, stealing books and school property, and straightforward physical abuses. In addition, dental…
The cases in the previous three chapters posed problems in which a dentist faced a conflict between following the principle of beneficence (doing what would appear to do the most…
1. Treatment alternatives and their risks and benefits 2. Who will perform the treatment and what the charges will be 3. Differing views of treatment options held by other dentists…
1. One possibility is that he could approach the problem by holding himself accountable to the standard of quality that his colleagues similarly situated would have provided. Then, if he…
Ethical problems in dentistry, like ethical problems in general, can sometimes be approached by looking at which general principles are at stake. Two of the most obvious are that actions…
The edentulous mandible is the safest and most convenient site for implant treatment. It is characterized by a thick, hard layer of cortical bone, which provides good primary stability for…
Esthetics play an important role in any prosthodontic treatment. However, it is at its most significant when it involves the teeth of the anterior maxilla. If the best possible final…
The posterior mandible requires exceptionally careful, reproducible preoperative investigation, for both medical and forensic reasons. The inferior alveolar nerve in particular is at risk from implant placement in the posterior…
The anterior mandible represents the most comfortable operating area for the implantologist. The main contributing factors for this include: good access and a good view of the operation site; a…
Fig. 5.1 (a, b) Preoperative radiographs reveal dystrophic obliteration of the canal spaces in tooth #5. Access and instrumentation was performed on #4, but only the buccal canal in #5…
Fig. 4.1 Periapical radiograph of a right mandibular second molar with associated apical pathosis (a) and the post-endodontic periapical radiograph with obturation material demonstrating the complex nature of the root…
