Standard of Care & Risk

The cannabis patient is already in your chair. Does your office have a policy?

Update, August 2026. This policy has been revised since it was published. It now carries a 25-second eye exam and a cognitive assessment, 5 findings that were not in the original. The downloads on this page are the current versions. Here is what changed and why. By David MH Lambert, DDS Half of dentists say

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If AI influences your decision…who’s liable?

If AI Sets the Standard… Who Owns the Decision? Yesterday I introduced the idea of an AI-Adjusted Standard of Care. If that’s true, there’s a second question that follows: If AI raises the standard… who is actually responsible when something goes wrong? Because the reality is: AI does not make decisions in isolation. It: But

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At what point does AI become the standard of care?

We’ve always defined the standard of care by what the average clinician does. That’s changing. AI is beginning to alter what is possible in clinical practice: It detects patternsIt surfaces riskIt documents more completely At first, this looks like optional improvement. Something extra. Something helpful. But over time, a shift occurs: Early adopters begin to

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