HSCI 410
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surveyassignmenthsci410.docxRunning Head: DENTISTRY AS A CAREER CHOICE
Dentistry and Regulatory Bodies
Ayaa Mahdi
HSCI 410
09/02/2020
Dentistry as a career is regulated by IDFP, and this means that one does not necessarily qualify to become a dentist without passing through the body. In this case, there is an exam required to pursue with the body before they are ranked, qualified dentists. This examination is one step that is exhibited in the road map of being a licensed dentist, retrievable from https://www.upwardlyglobal.org/get-hired/illinois-professional-licensing-guides/illinois-dentist-professional-licensing-guide/.
IDFP is not the only body that regulates dentistry. There are at least four other bodies which are also organizations responsible for controlling those who pursue dentistry. One of these bodies is the American Dental Association, official website retrievable from https://www.ada.org/en. International Association for Dental Research is another body that also regulates dentistry as a career choice by students, official website retrievable from https://www.iadr.org/.
Some ethics must be observed by all dentists in the workplace. These ethics are fostered to ensure the integrity of the dentist as an exercise to human beings. Different organizations sponsor ethics for Dentists, and the American Dental Association is the key sponsor for these ethics. ADA facilitates ethics in dentistry by providing principles used in this field, retrievable from https://www.ada.org/en/about-the-ada/principles-of-ethics-code-of-professional-conduct#:~:text=The%20ADA%20Principles%20of%20Ethics,position%20of%20trust%20within%20society.&text=There%20are%20five%20fundamental%20principles,%2C%20beneficence%2C%20justice%20and%20veracity.
There are different ethical considerations pushed by ADA, and they need to be exercised by all dentists. One of these ethical issues is for dentists to ensure that they practice patient autonomy as the first principle stated by ADA. The second principle of ethics under ADA provision is for dentists to exercise nonmaleficence at the workplace. The third guiding principle under ADA is the principle of Beneficence, but these are just a few principles provided by ADA (Khorshidian, Larijani, Ahmad-Akhoundi, Parsapour, Ebadi & Shojaei, 2019).
There are different legal and ethical issues that pertain to the exercise of dentistry, and one such ethical issue is the type of consents that dentistry is bond to. These consents are a regulation of how a dentist handles their patient in accordance with how a patient prefers to be treated, retrievable from https://www.omicsonline.org/open-access/consent-in-dental-practice-patients-right-to-decide-2332-0702-2-129.php?aid=27506
REFERENCES:
Khorshidian, A., Larijani, B., Ahmad-Akhoundi, M. S., Parsapour, A., Ebadi, A., & Shojaei, A. A. (2019). Design and Development of Dentistry Ethical Codes: Proposed for National Implementation in Iran. Frontiers in Dentistry, 16(4), 303.
