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(1) Ensure that his professional integrity and
freedom are maintained.
(2) Ensure that patients’ interest is not
compromised in any way.
(3) Ensure that such affiliations are within the
law.
(4) Ensure that such affiliations /employments
are fully transparent and disclosed.
e. Endorsement:
A Dental surgeon shall not endorse any drug or
product of the industry publically. Any study
conducted on the efficacy or otherwise of such
products shall be presented to and / or through
appropriate scientific bodies or published in
appropriate scientific journals in a proper way.
(G) Punishments and Disciplinary Actions:
A Dental Surgeon shall not aid or abet or commit
any acts which shall be construed as unethical.
1. It must be clearly understood that the
instances of offences and unethical conducts
which are given above do not constitute and are
not intended to constitute a complete list of the
infamous acts which calls for disciplinary action,
and that by issuing this notice the Dental
Council of India and or State Dental Councils
are in no way precluded from considering and
dealing with any other form of professional
misconduct on the part of a registered
practitioner. Circumstances may and do arise
from time to time in relation to which there may
occur questions of professional misconduct
which do not come within any of these
categories. Every care should be taken that the
code is not violated in letter or spirit. In such
instances as in all others, the Dental Council of
India and/or State Dental Councils have to
consider and decide upon the facts brought
before the Dental Council of India and/or State
Dental Councils.
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2. It is made clear that any complaint with regard
to professional misconduct can be brought
before the appropriate Dental Council for
Disciplinary action. Upon receipt of any
complaint of professional misconduct, the
appropriate Dental Council would hold an
enquiry and give opportunity to the registered
Dental practitioner to be heard in person or by
pleader. If the Dentist/ Dental Surgeon is found
to be guilty of committing professional
misconduct, the appropriate Dental Council
may award such punishment as deemed
necessary or may direct the removal altogether
or for a specified period, from the register the
name of the delinquent registered practitioner.
Deletion from the Register shall be widely
publicized in local press as well as in the
publications of different Medical and Dental
Associations/ Societies/Bodies.
3. In case the punishment of removal from the
register is for a limited period, the appropriate
Council may also direct that the name so
removed shall be restored in the register after
the expiry of the period for which the name was
ordered to be removed.
4. Decision on complaint against delinquent
Dental Surgeons shall be taken within a time
limit of 6 months.
5. During the pendency of the complaint the
appropriate Council may restrain the Dental
Surgeon from performing the procedure or
practice which is under scrutiny.
6. Professional incompetence shall be judged
by peer group as per guidelines prescribed by
State Dental Council. For this purpose the State
Dental Council shall institute an Ethics
Committee consisting of qualified persons of
integrity and good name from amongst
prominent registered Dental Surgeons in the
State.
7. Where either on a request or otherwise the
State Government or any competent authority
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