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B R Pollack

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PubMed1991

Legal considerations in sports dentistry.

The professional duties and responsibilities of a dentist in the examination or treatment of an individual engaged in a program of exercise or organized professional or amateur sports are consistent with the dentist's professional duties and responsibilities to any patient. However, because sports activities present risks not usually encountered by the average patient the dentist's concern for the well being of the patient is to a degree modified and expanded. These new professional duties and responsibilities translate into new legal duties and responsibilities, and the dentist's legal risks in the treatment of these patients increase. Added to the general rules of compliance with the law, duties that flow from the doctor-patient relationship, recordkeeping, history taking, obtaining informed consent, Good Samaritan Laws, and confidentiality are those that apply to the law of sports dentistry. Because most dentists, knowingly or unknowingly, treat patients engaged in some form of sport activity or exercise, all should become familiar with the special legal issues that attach to treating these patients.

Dentist-Patient Relations↗
PubMed1989

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Licensure, Dental↗
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Teaching law, ethics, and risk management at the School of Dental Medicine State University of New York at Stony Brook.

An upgraded course (program) in Law, Ethics, and Risk Management has been taught at the School of Dental Medicine, State University of New York at Stony Brook, since 1977 and was revised effective 1988. It brings together didactic instruction and an extensive clinical component beginning immediately before students enter the school's dental clinic and ending when clinical instruction is completed before graduation. The program is designed to (1) prepare students for the management of patients in the clinic; (2) ensure that student management of patients in the clinic does not place the supervising faculty and university administration at legal risk; (3) provide the student with knowledge about the law and legal system; (4) provide students with information about the regulation of dental practice; (5) identify areas of legal vulnerability in the practice of the profession, and risk management office principles designed to control or eliminate the risks; and (6) instruct the student about professional codes regulating ethical behavior and ethical standards of conduct.

Defensive Medicine↗