Professional Ethics and Jurisprudence

At the end of the course, students should be able to: 1. describe the functions of DTRBN; 2. appreciate the limits of professional practice; 3. describe vicarious liabilities and ethics of the profession; and 4. appreciate the principle of confidentiality and patients right to treatment.

Role of Dental Technologists Registration Board of Nigeria (DTRBN) in the practice and training in Dental Technology Profession. DTRBN Decree 43 of 1987. Right of the Board in regulating professional qualification required before entering the practice, various committees of the Board and their functions, Activities of Association of Dental Technologists of Nigeria (ADTN). The difference between the Board and ADTN. Responsibilities of ADTN to members of the profession, responsibilities of members to ADTN. Relationship of Dental Technologist to the welfare of Patients, code of conduct for practitioners and consequences of contravening the code. Inter- professional and intra-professional relationship in dental health care delivery. Procedures for setting up general dental laboratory practice – what the law states about setting up a business venture, definition of skill, malpractice in the profession, business ethics and corruption in practice, infamous or disgraceful conduct in the dental technology practice. Various offenses of a Dental Technologist as relates to disgraceful conduct, the legal aspect of health care law as relates to pitfalls in the practice of Dental Technology.