[Patient care and ethics. VII. Ethics education in the university dental curriculum in the Netherlands].

Dentistry, which has developed independently alongside medicine for more than a hundred years now in the Netherlands, is rooted in a type of natural scientific and technological thinking that gained wide acceptance in the middle of the last century. This type of thinking has had far-reaching consequences for the whole field of medicine, including the independent development of dentistry. The social science side of dental training and the normative aspects of clinical practice have long been seriously neglected as a result of the dominance of the natural sciences.

[Patient care and ethics. VI. Expensive treatments and the very old patient].

On the basis of a case report in which a 92-year-old patient requests treatment with dental implants, the question is raised whether there is a moral justification to deny the wishes of the patient.

[Patient care and ethics. The dentist in love with his patient].

A young dentist, who just started his practice, falls in love with a 24-year old woman, during an expensive treatment of several crowns and bridges. He gets confused if it is wise for him to continue this treatment. This question is discussed by a philosophical analysis of what is called the 'I-am-in-love-situation'.

[Patient care and ethics. IV. The terminal patient who concealed the truth].

In this article a case is discussed in which a dentist is placed in a dilemma. He is working on a comprehensive treatment but his patient has deliberately concealed his terminal state of health. By chance he was told about the actual health situation of his patient.

[Patient care and dental ethics. The request of a patient for total extraction].

On the basis of a case report in which a patient requests total extraction while, from the view of dental care, there are possibilities to preserve the teeth, the question is discussed if there is a moral justification to gratify the wishes of the patient.