study case quot trevor and the technology quot
Write a 1 page report, double spaced, 12 pt font, times new roman, 1″ margin. A cover sheet must be attached which list name course title date and assigned date.
Reference at least two ethical principles and provide a rationale for their use as evidence.
CASE 3: Trevor and the Technology
Trisha Nunn
Texas Women’s University
Trevor Wilson, RDH, BSDH. How great that sounded especially
as Trevor began his brand new job—a job that at least two of his
classmates wanted as badly as he did. Dr. Reeves not only seemed
to have the same philosophy as Trevor, but she paid exceptionally
well, and the office is state-of-art.
On his first day Trevor was thrilled to have made it through the
first two patients without going over the allotted appointment
times—and he did everything just as he had learned about standard
of care. The third patient of the day was 21-year-old Kaleigh
Ballantine. Dr. Reeves requested that Trevor use the electronic
caries detector because Ms. Ballantine was new to the practice and
had not had a thorough hard tissue assessment. Trevor even
gloated a little because he was very familiar with the device. Trevor
charted only one reading that strongly indicated a carious lesion,
but he also noted several very borderline readings on the chart
because he knew Dr. Reeves was a perfectionist and would want to
know all possible trouble areas as she was evaluating potential
lesions visually and tactilely during the examination.
Dr. Reeves sat down for the examination, chatted with Ms.
Ballantine, and scanned the dentition with a mouth mirror. She
looked at the charting of the potentially carious lesions and said,
“Kaleigh, you have a significant number of problems. It looks like
you’re going to need eleven fillings. We’ll want to do white ones, of
course, because of all the bad news about our trusty silver fillings.
The ballpark cost will be around $2100. Trevor, make sure Kaleigh
gets on my schedule so that we can get all these carious lesions
taken care of before she gets into trouble. Have the girls up front
schedule quadrant by quadrant.†Trevor sat dumbfounded.