2000 Volume 21 Issue 1 Pages 48-52
Abstract : The Japanese edition has been published by Nankodo Press. The author is an American physician. He collect a lot of wise saying which originated not only from literature but also from his teachers and colleagues, and arranged them into 425 rules about doctors’moral attitude towards patients in medical practice. These rules are also duly applicable to dental practice. Some examples of the rules are cited below. Furthermore, this book reminds us of our lack of the training or study of the mental and/or moral aspects of modern dentistry. We are concered that we dentists are liable to confine ourselves within technological details and apt to ignore mental aspects of patients. The ignorance may cause to in hibit future development of dentistry. We hope this book will be guide, especially for young dentists, to the best way of dental practice.
