TOPIC: DENTAL ETHICS

📌 KEY POINTS TO PONDER

DEFINTIONS:

Dental ethics means moral duties and obligations of the dentist towards his patients, professional colleagues and to the society.

-Code of ethics was framed by the DCI in 1975

– Later notified by Government of India as “Dentists (code of ethics) Regulations 1976

-It is in force from August 1976

PRINCIPLES:

• To do no Harm (Non-Maleficence)