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Dental Ethics and Professionalism

Legal, Ethical, and Professional Standards in Practice
2 hours
2025
ADA
Nationally Accredited

A practical 2-hour course covering dental ethics and professionalism, with guidance on ethical treatment planning, communication, and billing practices.

Elevate your professional practice with this essential 2-hour course on dental ethics and professionalism. Explore ethical treatment planning, communication, and billing practices while reviewing current Georgia Board of Dentistry updates. Learn to strengthen patient trust, uphold compliance, and reduce risk through sound legal and ethical decision-making.

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Dental Ethics and Professionalism

This 2-hour course equips dentists with the knowledge and competencies needed to navigate the ethical, legal, and professional responsibilities of modern dental practice. Through case-based discussion and real-world examples, participants will explore how professionalism extends beyond technical skill—encompassing communication, documentation, and ethical decision-making that build patient trust and reduce malpractice risk. Learners will review current board regulations, billing ethics, and liability prevention strategies. By the end of this course, participants will be able to identify unprofessional conduct, apply ethical treatment planning principles, communicate with empathy and clarity, and uphold the highest standards of professional integrity in dental care. ​​​​

This course meets the 2022 Georgia Board of Dentistry requirement for CE on legal ethics and professionalism in the practice of dentistry.​​​

​​​At the completion of this activity, healthcare providers will be able to:

  • ​Explain common causes of legal and professional disputes in dental practice.
  • ​Identify behaviors that constitute professional boundaries and unprofessional conduct in dentistry.
  • ​Discuss ethical approaches to treatment planning and patient communication that build trust and informed consent.
  • ​Discuss proper billing practices and documentation standards to reduce risk of fraud or abuse.
  • ​Analyze professional liability risks and apply strategies for effective risk management.
  • ​Explain recent legislative and board updates affecting dental practice.
  • ​Discuss strategies to avoid overprescribing while maintaining patient satisfaction and ethical production goals.

Course content

7
sections
2hr
total length
Dental Ethics and Professionalism: Legal, Ethical, and Professional Standards in Practice
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Professionalism in Dentistry
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17m 59s
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How Do We Act Professional?
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15m 51s
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You Are Your Own Quality Control
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10m 8s
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What You Say Matters
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8m 54s
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Ethical Treatment Planning
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22m 15s
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Ethical Billing
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10m 39s

Course details

Release Date:
11/5/2025
Activity Type:
Enduring Material
Expiration Date:
11/5/2028
Activity Format:
Online

Accreditations

This course has been reviewed and approved through the rigorous standards of leading accrediting organizations, ensuring your continuing education credits are formally recognized and respected across professions and states.

ADA

ADA Continuing Education Credits
American Dental Association

Accredited for dental continuing education

Additional Information

  • Automatic reporting to CE Broker for participating states
  • Instant certificate generation upon course completion
  • Credits accepted for license renewal
  • Meets state requirements for continuing education

Course Faculty

Learn from leading experts who bring their real-world experience and evidence-based practices to this comprehensive training.

Grant Hunsicker

Grant Hunsicker

General Dentist; Owner, Hunsicker Family Dental
DDS

General dentist with experience in family practice and preventive oral health care.

Areas of expertise:
Dentistry
Preventive Dentistry
Oral Health
Pain Management

Disclosure

Disclosures

Partners requires every individual in a position to control educational content to disclose all financial relationships with ineligible companies that have occurred within the past 24 months. Ineligible companies are organizations whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.

All relevant financial relationships for anyone with the ability to control the content of this educational activity are listed below and have been mitigated according to Partners policies. Others involved in the planning of this activity have no relevant financial relationships.

Grant Hunsicker DDS  • has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose

Disclosure of Unlabeled Use

This educational activity may contain discussion of published and/or investigational uses of agents that are not indicated by the FDA. The planners of this activity do not recommend the use of any agent outside of the labeled indications.

The opinions expressed in the educational activity are those of the faculty and do not necessarily represent the views of the planners. Please refer to the official prescribing information for each product for discussion of approved indications, contraindications, and warnings.

Disclaimer

Participants have an implied responsibility to use the newly acquired information to enhance patient outcomes and their own professional development. The information presented in this activity is not meant to serve as a guideline for patient management. Any procedures, medications, or other courses of diagnosis or treatment discussed or suggested in this activity should not be used by clinicians without evaluation of their patient’s conditions and possible contraindications and/or dangers in use, review of any applicable manufacturer’s product information, and comparison with recommendations of other authorities.

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Product Details

$25.00
2 hours
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Requirements & Compliance

This course meets your continuing education requirements across multiple states and professions, ensuring you stay compliant with the latest regulations.

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This course is regularly updated to ensure compliance with current state and federal requirements.

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Accreditations

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American Dental Association

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