Preventing Dental-Legal Entanglements
CE Hours: 1.75
Description: Jeff Tonner, a full-time dental malpractice defense attorney, will explore an endodontist's #1 malpractice risk (that can exceed your insurance limits); the four types of patient complaints; the profile of a typical dental malpractice patient; how to chart short fills, over fills, broken files; refunding fees; legal releases; patient termination; and, related topics.
Learning Objectives:
- Identify and understand that #1 dental malpractice risk for endodontists.
- Appreciate that endodontists will experience 2 to 5 dental-legal entanglements in a career.
- Know how to chart the three critical facts when unfortunate events (overfill, shortfill, broken file) occur.
Jeffrey Tonner, J.D.
Dental Malpractice Defense Attorney
Jeffrey J. Tonner, LLC
Jeff Tonner is a full-time dental-malpractice defense attorney in Phoenix, AZ.
Jeff has defended over 4,000 dentists before the dental board and hundreds of dental malpractice cases in superior court. He drafts and regularly reviews dental contracts, including office leases, asset purchase agreement and both employee and independent contractor agreements.
He has written two books for dentists: "Malpractice: What They Don’t Teach You In Dental School" and "Ideal Charting For General Dentists."
Jeff lectures across the US and now Canada on risk management, recordkeeping and dental ethics.
Jeff founded Lightening Dental Charts, a charting system contains custom progress-note templates, consent forms, Update & Alert bulletins and other legal aids.
Jeff graduated from Indiana University in 1977 and DePaul University Law School in 1981, where he was a member of the law review.
Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose
