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Ethical and Medicolegal Issues Related to CBCT

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Evidence-based, good clinical practice usually satisfies a medicolegal standard. It is in this spirit and through this prism that practitioners should view medicolegal issues. To comprehend the application of good clinical practice as applied to CBCT imaging, one must consider the concept of “standards” in regard to at least five “stakeholders”; patients whom we serve, health care professionals who provide care, the dental Industry; the legal system, and payers who are financially responsible. Therefore, the concept of standard may well mean different things to different stakeholders. In the broadest sense, standards may be considered in ethical, moral, and medicolegal context.

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    American Dental Association; American Academy of Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology; American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons; American Association of Endodontists; American Academy of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology; American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry; American Academy of Periodontology; American Dental Education Association; Canadian Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology; and the European Academy of DentoMaxilloFacial Radiology.

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Sections of this chapter are based on previously published works by Dr. Bernard Friedland (2010), Drs. Bernard Friedland and Dale Miles (2014), and Dr. William C. Scarfe (2011, 2013, 2015).

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    William C. Scarfe B.D.S., F.R.A.C.D.S., M.S.

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Friedland, B., Scarfe, W.C. (2018). Ethical and Medicolegal Issues Related to CBCT. In: Scarfe, W., Angelopoulos, C. (eds) Maxillofacial Cone Beam Computed Tomography. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62061-9_6

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