Course Overview

This presentation is a deep dive into the topic of informed consent.

The Dental Board of Australia regards the clinical areas of informed consent and dental records as being of paramount importance, and will assess your compliance with appropriate professional standards when they receive a notification about your performance. 

AHPRA will often decide that a complaint from a patient can be dismissed with an NFA outcome (no further action), but will then ask the dental practitioner to undergo further education in the areas of informed consent.

This webinar will allow you to check that you are recording appropriate consent from your patients in your records, and understand what constitutes effective informed consent, both written and verbal

To see how AHPRA deals with these issues, this webinar will present many case studies where informed consent and records have been a significant issue, including 2 cases where dentists have lost their registration because of failing to gain and record informed consent 

The Dental Board of Australia regards the clinical areas of informed consent and dental records as being of paramount importance, and will assess your compliance with appropriate professional standards when they receive a notification about your performance. 

AHPRA will often decide that a complaint from a patient can be dismissed with an NFA outcome (no further action), but will then ask the dental practitioner to undergo further education in the areas of informed consent.

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to: 

• identify the various components of legal consent
• understand your duty to disclose to the patient their treatment options including benefits and risks
• identify how to appropriately document informed consent
• learn under what circumstances written consent is required 
• gain an understanding of how to implement financial consent into your daily practice

Presenter/s biography

Dr Martin Webb

BDSc (HONS) Qld 1990  FICD FPFA FADI  MAICD

Dr Martin Webb is a dentist in private practice on the Sunshine Coast. He has served in the past as the ADA Federal Vice President, the ADAQ State President, is currently the Vice Chair of the ADA Schedule and Third Party Committee and an ADA Federal Councillor for Queensland. He has conducted CPD lectures for over 10 years for ADAQ, and recently for ADA Victoria, University of Sydney, UWA dental school, UQ dental school, DHAA and ADOHTA. Dr Webb acts as an AHPRA auditor, mentor and educator to assist dentists with conditions on their registration. As a member of the ADAQ Peer review panel, he provides advice to ADAQ staff working to assist dentists with health fund audits, AHPRA complaints and Professional Indemnity insurance legal claims. Dr Webb serves on the Australian Government Professional Services Review Panel, to review inappropriate Medicare billing under the CDBS. In 2023 he was appointed to the ADC examiner panel.

He provides expert opinion reports for professional indemnity insurance lawyers, and has worked in the past as a clinical expert for OHO, the co-regulators in Qld. Dr Webb is a Fellow of the International College of Dentists, the Academy of Dentistry International and the Pierre Fauchard Academy. In 2022, Dr Webb was appointed as an Honorary Senior Lecturer at the University of Sydney School of Dentistry.

Event Pricing

ADA Member Dentist - FREE
ADA Member 1st and 2nd Year Graduate - FREE
Non-Member Dentist - $55

CPD Points

1.5 Non-Scientific hours

Event Supporter

ADAQ are pleased to have BOQ Specialist supporting this event.

By registering for this course, you agree to the events terms and conditions outlined on the ADAQ website.