A patient comes in to the office to get a temporary crown replaced with the permanent …show more content…
It is important to look at this situation through various philosophical ethical theories in order to make the correct moral decision on how to proceed. Based on the theories proposed by Kant, Mill, and Aristotle, if I were the dentist in this situation, I would choose to go with decision two and reschedule the patient to make sure the crown properly fits. In order to arrive at this conclusion, the predicament faced by the dentist was examined through deontological theory, utilitarianism, and virtue ethics as well as looking at the dental code of ethics proposed by the American Dental