Principles and Practice:

Ethical Decision Making for Dental Professionals

This webinar explores the principles of ethical decision making in dental practice, grounded in both professional standards and personal values. Participants will examine the dynamic relationship between legal requirements, ethical obligations, and individual moral frameworks, and how these forces shape everyday clinical decisions. Drawing from real-world scenarios and foundational concepts, this course challenges providers to reflect on their professional identity and align their actions with the ethical standards of dentistry.

Learning Objectives

By the end of this course, participants will be able to:

Differentiate between legal, ethical, and moral considerations and apply this framework to clinical decision making in dentistry.
Apply core ethical principles including autonomy, beneficence, nonmaleficence, veracity, and justice to real-world dental scenarios.
Evaluate how personal values and professional identity influence ethical behavior, and develop strategies to align decision making with the ADA Code of Ethics and standards of care

About Dr. Singh:

Dr. Amisha Singh is a Denver native and loves living in beautiful Colorado. She is a dentist by training and has dedicated her career to building professional identity and wellness in higher education and healthcare. She has owned her own start-up dental practice in Parker, Colorado. She is currently faculty at the University of Colorado School of Dental Medicine and serves as the Director of Diversity and Inclusion. She is driven to changing the landscape of healthcare in the US and has served as a Workforce Diversity Consultant for the Colorado Department of Public Health where she worked to help recruit underrepresented minorities to the professions of dentistry and medicine. She currently serves as an ADA Success Speaker, participates in the ADA Institute of Diversity in Leadership and is the founder of the CDA Diversity in Leadership program. She was recognized as one of the 2017 10 Under 10 Top ADA Dentists nationally. Her passion is encouraging entrepreneurial spirit, inspiring others and she wants to dedicate her life to helping create equitable paths to success for all. When not practicing dentistry, she loves to get lost in a good book, cook, and do all things creative.

The CE Innovators webinar series consists of six webinars presented on the last Tuesday of January, March, May, July, September, & November. The series includes clinical and management topics. The webinars will be presented live and will be available to registrants by on-demand recordings for 30 days following. All-access passes are available at a significant discount but individual webinars will be available to NMDA members for $35.

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