Statutory Law
State Dental Practice Act
Dentist-Patient Relationship/Malpractice
Risk Management
Patient Records/Abuse and Neglect
100
Law enacted by legislation through U.S Congress, state legislature, or local legislative bodies including Criminal and Civil Law.
What is Statutory Law?
100
A compilation of laws that regulates the practice of dentistry and the legal requirements within each state.
What is a state Dental Practice Act?
100
A legal concept that provides general boundaries within which a dentist must perform in a given situation.
What is the Standard of Care?
100
Excellent communication with patients, maintaining accurate and complete patient records, receiving informed consent, and doing everything possible to maintain high standards of clinical excellence are all included in this.
What are major areas of risk management?
100
All of the patient records and radiographs are owned by ___.
Who is the dentist?
200
Felonies, Misdemeanors, and infractions are all offenses included in this type of law.
What is Criminal Law?
200
A method of protecting the public from unqualified or incompetent practitioners.
What is Licensure?
200
A discontinuation of care after treatment has begun, but before it has been completed.
What is abandonment?
200
Prevention and good communication between provider and patient.
What are the best defenses against malpractice?
200
Dental professionals who must report suspected abuse.
Who are mandated reporters?
300
Contract, Tort, and Administrative are all included in this law concerned with relations of individuals, corporations, and organizations.
What is Civil Law?
300
Specific intraoral tasks delegated to qualified dental auxiliaries who have advanced skill and training.
What are expanded functions?
300
A legal term that means proper and sufficient care, or the absence of negligence.
What is due care?
300
"Things done".
What is res gestae?
300
Any act of omission or commission that endangers or impairs a child's physical or emotional health and development.
What is child abuse?
400
A contact established by actions, not words.
What is an implied contact?
400
"Let the master answer".
What is respondeat superior?
400
Duty, derelict, direct cause, and damages must be present for this to be a successful lawsuit.
What are the "four D's" of malpractice?
400
Information that would be so upsetting that the patient would be unable to to weigh risks and benefits rationally.
What is therapeutic exception?
400
Battering, abuse, or control over an intimate individual within the same household.
What is domestic violence?
500
Not doing something that should have been done.
What is an act of omission?
500
The dentist must be physically present in the office at the time the procedures are preformed.
What is direct supervision?
500
"The act speaks for itself".
What is res ipsa loquitur?
500
A type of consent in which the patient's action indicates consent for treatment.
What is implied consent?
500
The willful failure of a person or guardian to seek and obtain appropriate treatment for caries and oral infection.
What is dental neglect?
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