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Article: Informed consent and the practice of dental hygiene.(risk management)
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- November 1, 2008
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Informed consent is the basis of the binding legal agreement made when a patient contracts with a provider for services and agrees to pay for them. (1) It is both a basis for and a part of risk management in the health care community, including dentistry.
The authors believe that events including the recent passage of self-regulation in California; unsupervised dental charting by hygienists in Florida in designated settings; the need for the ADHP; changes in practice patterns and settings that result from technological advances such as teledentistry and the recognition in some areas that "the traditional oral health delivery system does not work for many segments ...