Handout - The first 5 years - Practising with Confidence

Dental Board of Australia - Policies, codes and guidelines

• Code of Conduct – 17/03/2014
• Social Media Policy – 17/03/2014
• Guidelines for mandatory notifications – 17/03/2014
• Guidelines for advertising regulated health services – 17/03/2014
• Dental Guidelines – Scope of practice registration standard – 30/06/2014
• Dental Guidelines on continuing professional development – 01/12/2015
• Dental guidelines on dental records – 01/07/2010

Some golden rules

• Maintain appropriate clinical records of all investigations and treatment plans
• Provide all options for treatment
• Gain informed consent (including financial consent) with all appropriate warnings documented in the clinical record
• Do not proceed with treatment in which you are not qualified to provide - refer to a more appropriate dental practitioner

MIPS On-demand Risk Education

• Post operative complications – pre-emptive strategies
• Wrong tooth – wrong treatment
• Dental Risks
• Top 5 clinico-legal issues dental
• Saying No and managing complaints
• The evolution of a dental complaint
• Extractions – beware the risks
• Implant dentistry – Informed consent
• Root fragment
• Extractions on anticoagulants

General/membership enquiries
1800 061 113 or
+61 3 8620 8888 outside Australia
info@mips.com.au

24 hour Clinico-Legal Advice & Support
1800 021 223 or
+61 3 8620 8829 outside Australia
claims@mips.com.au

Postal address
PO Box 24240
Melbourne VIC 3001