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A Welcome to the Workshop on “Professional Promises: Hopes and Gaps in Access to Oral Health Care”
Author(s) -
Catalanotto Frank A.
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
journal of dental education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.53
H-Index - 68
eISSN - 1930-7837
pISSN - 0022-0337
DOI - 10.1002/j.0022-0337.2006.70.11.tb04185.x
Subject(s) - obligation , oral health care , moral obligation , oral health , health care , dental care , medical education , medicine , nursing , psychology , engineering ethics , public relations , political science , family medicine , law , engineering
Starting with the belief held by some of the workshop participants that access to basic oral health care is a natural human right and that the oral health care system in the United States must serve the common good, we conducted a meeting of ethicists, practicing dentists, dental hygienists, dental educators, and others to discuss ethical issues related to access to care. As one of the meeting organizers, the author discusses in these introductory remarks his background and personal perspectives on why the dental profession has a moral obligation to better address the access issue.