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Career Opportunities for the New Dentist
Now, in your last year of dental school, if you have not done it already, is the time to take a serious look at what you intend to do with the rest of your life as a dentist.
Malpractice Risks in Dental Practice: You should Know Where the Risks Are
One of the best risk management tools is for you to be aware of the targets of allegations of malpractice brought against other dentists.
Contracts of Employment: Avoiding Common Pitfalls
Associateships in dental practice may take the form of any one of several configurations: employer/employee, partnership, stockholders in a professional corporation, owner/independent contractor, or separate practitioners sharing facilities.
Finding Employment
The initial decision you make on where to practice, and in what practice configuration, may determine your entire professional and personal future.
Independent Contractor or Employee: Which is best for you?
On entering the real world of dental practice you will have to make decisions that your dental education may not have adequately prepared you to make.
Waivers, Releases & Consents: Your Essential Risk Management Aids
The prudent dentist includes in his or her basic forms kit a variety of waiver, release, and consent forms. When the need arises to use any of them they should be readily available.
History Taking: Risks for You, Risks for Your Patient
Faults in taking the patient's health history have emerged as one of the more serious legal risks in dental practice.
The Dentist's Legal Duties and the Patient's Legal Duties
The relationship between the dentist and the patient is based upon the rules of contract law. As soon as a dentist accepts a patient for care a contract between the parties is established and the rules of contract law apply.
How to Terminate Care without the Risk of a Suit
There comes a time in every dentist's practice when the best course of action to follow is to terminate the care of a patient before the care is completed. To do so without following some strict rules, both in law and interpersonal relationships, may lead to considerable difficulty for the dentist.
Patient Records: Making Them Work for You
Your patient treatment records, if properly maintained provide the best defense to an allegation of malpractice lodged by a patient against a dentist.
Opportunities in Associate Practice
The opportunity to become a partner with an established dentist immediately following professional training is remote, as is the opportunity to become a shareholder in a PC or PA. The other professional relationships are more likely to occur. By far, the most common is employer/employee.


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