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J Dent Educ. 70(11): 1125-1132 2006
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Professional Promises: Hopes and Gaps in Access to Oral Health Care

How Did We Get Here? Where Are We Going? Hopes and Gaps in Access to Oral Health Care

Donald E. Patthoff, D.D.S.

Key words: acceptance, access to care, dental ethics, discourse ethics, ethics, oral health, public professional partnerships, systemization, universal patient acceptance, volunteerism, moral imagination

This article reviews the history and future good of acceptance ethics and helps frame the publication of papers presented at the workshop on Professional Promises: Hopes and Gaps in Access to Oral Health Care. Discovery and development of Universal Patient Acceptance (UPA), a practical application of acceptance ethics, is key to systematizing access to oral health; UPA expands partnerships among professional volunteerism, culture, and economic structures. A Veterans’ Administration health services preventive dentistry research project and a West Virginia school children’s preventive dental program raised awareness of acceptance. A state insurance crisis revealed an underlying systems ethics problem that was not purely legal, political, educational, economic, or scientific in nature. Key players were identified for dialogue, and questions were ranked. UPA was articulated and proposed as a unique, practical, and positive professional promise. The experience involved PEDNET, a dental ethics education group. An intensive applied dental ethics course for practicing dentists was developed; it attracted the American College of Dentists (ACD) and American Dental Association (ADA). Annual ACD LeaderSkills helped expand continuing education of ethics; several dental ethics summits were initiated. Concepts like discourse, adequate care, and viewing organizations as both persons and machines motivated further exploration of acceptance. Separating acceptance from diagnosis, treatment, and payment improves discourse on the various philosophical notions and practical applications that dominate each area.




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