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May 10, 2025
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DENH 2040 - Legal Aspects of Dental Practice Credits: 1 Hours/Week: Lecture 1 Lab None Course Description: This course focuses on the ethical and legal implications of providing dental and dental hygiene care. A case study approach will be used throughout the course to provide students experience in resolving legal and ethical dilemmas in a simulated dental office setting. MnTC Goals None
Prerequisite(s): DENH 2010 , DENH 2015 , DENH 2020 , and DENH 2030 Corequisite(s): None Recommendation: None
Major Content
- Ethics and professionalism
- Ethical principles and values
- Social responsibility and justice
- Dental hygiene code of ethics
- Ethical decision making in dental hygiene
- Society and the state dental practice act
- Dental hygienist - patient relationship
- Dental hygienist - dentist - employer relationship
- Risk management
- Ethical theory and philosophy
- Ethical issues in community dental health
Learning Outcomes At the end of this course students will be able to:
- describe the components of the MN Dental Practice Act & the ADHA Code of Ethics.
- explain the scope of practice for dentists, dental hygienists & dental assistants.
- analyze ethical dilemmas in simulated dental health case studies.
- apply 6-step Ethical Decision Making Model to simulated ethical dilemmas.
- differentiate civil and criminal laws.
- identify personal and professional morals/ethics.
- analyze ethical problems relating to dental hygiene.
Minnesota Transfer Curriculum (MnTC): Goals and Competencies Competency Goals (MnTC Goals 1-6) None Theme Goals (MnTC Goals 7-10) None
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