Comments on: Bad mouthing https://www.bitemagazine.com.au/bad-mouthing/ Independent dental news, views and reviews Sun, 23 Apr 2017 07:51:44 +0000 hourly 1 By: patient https://www.bitemagazine.com.au/bad-mouthing/#comment-272187 Sun, 23 Apr 2017 07:51:44 +0000 https://www.bitemagazine.com.au/?p=7880#comment-272187 “Patients often have a very poor understanding of what’s been happening in their mouth…” As a patient, I am not a passive consumer of dental work. And dentistry has increasingly shifted toward a business model (Trathen & Gallagher, 2009) where profit-driven dentistry can cause problems related to over-treatment. If complaints about dentists have increased by 33.8% (Dental Board, 2016) why aren’t dentists directly resolving them? The second dentist, as an independent health care professional, surely has both an ethical and a legal obligation to disclose treatment issues to the patient.
“But [APHRA] isn’t really interested in single instances- they’re interested in a pattern of behaviour….” A pattern of behaviour consists of single repeated incidences (the same behaviour repeated with different patients).

References:
Trathen, A., & Gallagher, J. E. (2009). Dental professionalism: definitions and debate. British Dental Journal, 206(5), 249-253.
The second dentist and patient dissatisfaction. Dental RiskHQ, 16 May 2016. http://www.dentalriskhq.com.au/clinical-records/the-second-dentist-and-patient-dissatisfaction/

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