The Ethics Handbook for Dentists

When you share your resources, you are not just contributing to more handbooks being printed and shipped, you are expanding the Mission. The high school student in a health career preparation course who is inspired by the Handbook might be a dean of your local dental school some day, your grandchild’s dentist, or even a future president of the ACD.

What do dental school faculty, high school career preparation teachers in Texas, and continuing education facilitators have in common? They all use the Ethics Handbook for Dentists.

For years, the Ethics Handbook for Dentists has been provided free of charge to dental schools, study clubs, interested parties, and continuing education participants. It is the most downloaded document on our website, www. dentalethics.org. It is part of our identity. Every time a high school student uses it in a career preparation course, a dental school student shares it with a friend or family member, or a dentist uses something learned from it with staff members or a patient, the reach of our Mission expands.

Last year the Board of Regents approved a full revision of the Handbook, and our partners at the American Society for Dental Ethics have taken the lead on this project. The goal is to preserve the spirit and intent of the handbook while bringing a more contemporary approach to the text and topics.

The updated Ethics Handbook for Dentists should be ready to ship or download in the spring of 2024.