Don’t Get Sued – PDP018

I am joined by Dr. Stephen Hudson of Dental Law and Ethics Blog Need to Read it? Check out the Full Episode Transcript below! Protrusive Dental Pearl: Download my EXACT examination Custom Screen for free! (I had to move the link to the Facebook group where you fill find all the custom screens - wait for group approval) Once you are in the group, this is the post with the download: In this episode we cover: Who can call themselves an ‘Expert’ and why it’s stupidWho was Montgomery and why did they have such an impact on our profession?Where do you draw the line in terms of ‘explain every single option’If you feel uncomfortable treating this patient – how can you tell your patient?Consent forms – are they really necessary?What happens when a child attends with the father, not with the mother?Under age Teeth Whitening – would you do it?Do you always need a PA for extractions?The GDC says you should make a recommendation – what happens when the patient says ‘No’ to the recommended treatment? The over arching theme of this episode is the importance of building rapport with your patient! If you like what you hear, please Subscribe, leave a review on Apple Podcasts and share with a friend who may find it useful! https://www.facebook.com/protrusive/videos/589415178518912 Click below for full episode transcript: Opening Snippet: So there's been a lot of hoo ha about Montgomery because initially we were afraid about it. But what's happened?... Jaz's Introduction: Hello everyone and welcome to the Protrusive Dental podcast, it's Jaz Gulati here. Today, I've got Stephen Hudson on the show, we've been talking all things about like consent forms, notetaking, how not to get sued, the relevance of Montgomery, Who the hell is Montgomery? You'll find out today, like I did, I thought Montgomery was a guy, right? It's actually a woman. So there we are. I've noticed that actually, a lot of my listeners are starting to message me with recommendations for who they think that should come on the show next, and I'm actually loving it. So please, if you've got any suggestions for topics, I'd love to hear it, I've got a good list of speakers coming up and guests on the show lined up for you. But if you think something would be beneficial to the audience, then please come with the suggestions. Before we dive into the episode I will give you the Protrusive Dental pearl for today. And that is going to be a gift to you guys. It is my custom screen for taking comprehensive examination notes. So for my new patient examination, I try and make it fairly comprehensive. It's not ott it's pretty detailed. And you know, you can fit in what you want. But basically the the benefit of a custom screen, if you never heard of a custom screen is on Exact, Software of Excellence , Exact. You can actually have a way of collecting notes where instead of having to have like a template where you're adding and deleting stuff, I've converted it into like tick boxes and drop downs. So it actually makes it really easy for your nurse to follow what you're doing. And like for example, molar classification, you can just drop down click class two whatever, you can select your sort of incisor classification, you can have the BP code within the custom screen, you can take where the radiograph is grade one, two, or three on page two of the custom screen. So basically, custom screen is a fantastic way of collecting notes efficiently. And also notes of very good quality. So I'm going to share with you my custom screen, the story of how I got to make my custom screen was basically I was a bit poorly last Christmas. Basically I hate doing nothing right? So I was in bed, I was super sick. So what the hell can I do anything I can move. So I got my laptop, open our log into exact. And I was able to bust out for hours and make this custom screen. So I know I worked really hard on this custom screen. But it's not perfect.