 everybody. Andrea Trotsky here with Dental L Tutoring. What do you have to know about ethics when it comes to the board exam? So this is for the Dental Hygiene and Dental Assisting Board Exam. I've been tutoring online for about 18 years now with my own company Dental L Tutoring and this is a very popular question because ethics is boring and in school you learn so much but at the same time can you really explain what you learned about ethics? Probably not. You're just probably thinking well we know the ways from right to wrong. That's about it but let me go over a couple different case study type questions with you that I do offer inside my course the VIP Board Exam Prep Academy. We go over case studies, quizzes, teaching videos every single week so let me give you an idea of what we're talking about and that might help you guys a little bit. So let me go over one of the questions here. So you are a dental professional working in a dental clinic. Let's see can you guys see that okay? Should I make this bigger? Let me let me try a couple things here. Let me try a couple things. Sorry guys one sec. I'm gonna try to make this bigger for you so you can see it because I feel like with the blue here it was kind of hard to see. There is that a little bit better? Okay sorry everybody. So let's start this again. You are a dental professional working in a dental clinic. A patient arrives for a routine checkup and reveals that they are experiencing severe pain and discomfort in their mouth. Upon examination you notice multiple signs of advanced periodontal disease. The patient admits to neglecting their oral hygiene routine and avoiding dental visits for the past few years. According to the Dental Hygiene Code of Ethics what should be your initial course of action? So I'll let you guys read through the answers on your own. Think about it. Feel free to pause this video before I go over the answer. Okay so pause the video now if you don't want to know the answer yet. I'm going to discuss it with you. Okay moving on. So C is the best answer. So let's go through the question again a little bit. So you're a dental professional. Your patient has come in. They are experiencing severe pain and discomfort in their mouth. You notice multiple signs of advanced perio. They probably didn't realize they had perio because they've been afraid to go to the dentist and they've been avoiding dental visits. But what do you do? So you will you will offer supportive care including pain relief and temporary solutions while educating the patient about the consequences of neglecting oral hygiene. So this is the best answer. A is not correct because you don't just want to go through with a normal checkup. There's so much more involved here. You don't necessarily want to just refer the patient to a perio specialist because you don't just want to send them on their way right? Like you you want to let them know you care about them. You don't just want to say uh-oh you have perio. I'm going to refer you right away. They're coming to you in pain so you want to offer them something. Maybe it's as simple as saying if you take Advil every six hours this will help but we need to talk about why regular dental hygiene visits are important. You probably want to start cleaning the teeth as soon as possible too. And then D is not correct to inform the patient that their condition requires extensive treatment and dismiss them from the clinic. So does everybody understand why C was the best answer? When somebody comes in you don't just want to ignore them and send them away. You don't just want to lecture them either and say well there's nothing we can do you have severe perio. Anytime a patient comes in you want to look at their chief complaint and if they're in pain like that is the biggest unmet human need that we have to deal with as dental professionals is anxiety and pain because that's the first. Okay if they're more concerned with teeth waiting but they're so scared to go to the dentist and they're in pain yes they want their teeth wiped but you first have to address their pain their anxiety and this is it in a nutshell. They didn't go to the dentist for several years they have been neglecting their oral health too so who knows have they been brushing daily who knows but it's good to get them out of pain give them education on why this happened in the first place so it doesn't happen again because they might not know they might not realize like oh that's why I have to go to the dentist because I had gum disease and since it wasn't treated it's gotten worse maybe they didn't know that so don't always assume that they know everything because they probably don't and again you don't just want to send them on their way you don't just want to refer them but then you don't also want to continue on so remember A. A was to basically proceed with the routine checkup so you don't just want to go ahead with their like examination today and then whatever you had planned you might want to say okay you had planned an emergency visit today or perhaps they they planned a new patient exam today and although those are good things to do but you need to do more you need to add in the education you need to add in okay we're going to educate you first on why this happened let's take a bunch of x-rays so we can show you what's happening they probably have bone mods if they're in pain but we need to book a cleaning right away this gum disease is here it's not going to get better until we make it better by going through cleaning you might have to refer them to a periodontist it didn't say if there's any bone loss it doesn't say how much so you might still have to refer them but you want to go through those stages first so does that make sense why C is the best answer so this is part of our case studies our ethics case studies there are tons of case studies inside the VIP board exam prep academy we go over them all every single week because I tell my students I want you guys so take ethics as an example I want everybody to study ethics first study it until you know it like okay Andrea I got it I think I'd get a hundred percent on the exam then I want you to take the quizzes and then the case studies to really see like okay do you know it or do you have to go back and study it again because it's one thing to think you know it but then you see the questions in another way and then you might go okay I didn't really know it I have to go back and study it again and that's okay that's what mock exams and case studies are there for so I hope this helped you guys let me know if any questions I'm very happy to help we are now enrolling new students into the VIP board exam prep academy so definitely check it out at dental oil.com you will have me the entire time I'm the only one that teaches everybody and you will pass your first attempt on the board exam that is my goal I still maintain a 99 plus percent success rate it's 99.6 to 99.8 depending on the dental hygiene or the dental assisting courses but that is still very high so I know you guys can pass okay so thank you for watching and I'll see you guys in the next one