Can you fire a dental patient? Yes. But Ontario's patient dismissal standard means dentists need to be more careful about how they end a dentist-patient…
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How much dentist time, money and public resources should be consumed by a misunderstanding over whether a permanent retainer wire was to be clipped or…
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Getting into a fight with the RCDSO can be expensive. Like really expensive. In Bacchus v. Royal College of Dental Surgeons of Ontario, the Ontario…
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Wowza! The decision in Royal College of Dental Surgeons of Ontario v. Takvorian consumes 121 paragraphs to decide whether a dentist called an employee “white trash,”…
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The Health Professions Appeal and Review Board’s December 2025 decision in Drake v. Mueller offers a cautionary lesson for Ontario dentists about patient privacy, informed…
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Every dentist has probably, at some point, been approached by family and friends to exchange dental services for something other than prompt payment. You know,…
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Congratulations! You just bought or started up your very own dental practice. Now you want to give your practice a sleek, catchy name that will…
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As a service industry, dentistry is susceptible to patient complaints. It is something that every dentist knows they will have to deal with at some…
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This type of stuff makes my blood boil. It's something EVERY dentist will have to deal with at some point in their careers: an unhappy…
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