ETHICS AND

RESPONSIBILTY IN
DENTAL CARE

By
Dr. Amir Akbar Shaikh
Asst. Prof Community
Dentistry
Head Of Department
ETHICS AND RESPONSIBILITY
IN DENTAL CARE
ETHICS
A branch of philosophy and theology, is the
systematic study of what is right and good with
respect to conduct and character.

Various ways of understanding and examining the

moral life
Framework for Ethical standards
principles for Ethical standard:
Principles for Ethical standards
Aspirational:
A broadly worded statement of ideals. no precise
definitions of right or wrong behavior are given .

Educational:
Which combine the principles with some
guidelines that can assist decision making in
morally different situations.
Principles for Ethical standards
Regulatory:
It goes a step further and include a set of detailed
rules to govern professional conduct and which serve
as a basis for adjudicating grievances, such rules are
assumed to be enforceable, with a range of sanctions
imposed by the profession if the rules are
contravened..
Guideline for Ethical standards
Four Guide lines for Ethical Standards

1.Respect for All

2.Nonmaleficence
3.Beneficence
4.Justices
1. Respect for All

Respect for all persons and all

points of views and for the
decision making capacities of
autonomous persons
2. Nonmaleficence
Basically means to do no
harm for all participants
3. Benificence
Which encourages one to
promote good for other and
provide norms for balancing
benefits againts risks and costs
4. Justices
Distributive justices is the fair
distribution of social benefits, risks
and costs in the community an
issue that makes up the core of
much of our political debate.
Individuals vs Social Responsibilities
Who is responsible for health?
It is society or health each
individual’s responsibility.
For example life style (smoking,
alcohol habit)
Responsibility for both
Right for health care
All individuals should have equal
rights
No racism, no advantage one
individual to other
 treat individual equally
Professional ethics and self
regulation
Dentists should not refuse any patient
for their race, color sex or national
origin
He should treat individual’s equally
If dentist is not treating the patient
because of AIDS, HIV , sero positive or
HEP,C is totally unethical
Ethics in Patient Care
Confidential and privacy of all
patient
Should respect of all patient
Treat equally of all individuals
Patients should know about their
treatment outcome