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It is important to understand the scope of dentistry and dental professions all over the world, in a global perspective. In dental practice, there are not only dentists but also other dental professionals that vary according to the country. The scope of practice of dentists and other dental professions may also vary depending on the country. Dentists do not work only in intraoral structures but also in the maxillofacial region. Besides the dental professionals, there are other people related to the dental activities – as patients, their family, other health professionals (physicians, nurses, physiotherapists, radiology technicians, etc.), and professionals of other areas (anthropologists, lawyers, etc.). It is worth bearing in mind the main differences among morality, ethics, and law, to reflect about dental ethics. In dental practice, there is an enormous quantity of different issues that can raise moral, ethical, and legal concerns. It is impossible to describe and/or comment on all of them. Thus, in this entry only few subjects were highlighted, as ethics education, advertisement, promises of result, patients’ images and media, informed consent, autonomy, professional secrecy, communication and relationship, biosafety, and researches with animals and human beings, always under a global perspective.
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Serra, M.d.C., Fernandes, C.M.S. (2016). Dental Ethics. In: ten Have, H. (eds) Encyclopedia of Global Bioethics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09483-0_137
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