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All dentists and allied dental personnel must work to minimise the risk of disease transmission, complying with the DBA’s infection control obligations and the ADA’s Guidelines for Infection Control.
Improving the quality and safety of dental care must incorporate standard principles of Quality Assurance and Total Quality Management.
All dental health care workers should be vaccinated against blood-borne viruses, should monitor their infection status, and if their status is stable should be permitted to perform exposure prone procedures.
Impaired dental practitioners can continue to provide valuable and safe dental health services, as long as their conditions are appropriately managed by regulatory authorities.
The dentist-patient relationship is central to the practice of dentistry and involves a unique position of trust; dentists must ensure this professional relationship is never violated.
The ADA is committed to providing a safe and healthy working environment for its staff and visitors, and by assisting its members to provide the same environment for their workers and visitors.
While dentists are the only dental practitioners qualified to manage oral appliance therapy for Sleep-Disordered Breathing, both medical and dental expertise is required to manage patients who are candidates for this treatment.
Dental practitioners should embrace evidence-based dental care with a focus on the primacy of patient treatment and along with government, industry, research foundations and universities, ensure this research is well-funded.
The advertising of dental services should solely be used to assist patients in deciding which dentist to use and must comply with relevant standards administered by the Dental Board of Australia.
Patients should undergo oral cancer examinations by their dentists at least once a year as well being encouraged to stop smoking and limit their intake of alcohol.