Risk Management and Ethics: How they go hand in hand

Dr. Dovgan has been retained as an expert in the area of dental standard of care throughout the United States.  He has been a continually practicing full-time dentist for over 36 years and currently practices full time in Phoenix, Arizona. He has been a board approved consultant for over 30 years assisting in adjudicating more than 3000 dental board cases for the Arizona State Board of Dental Examiners.

On October 4, 2019, the Arizona State Board of Dental Examiners preapproved Dr. Dovgan's course from DOCS Education “Forensic Dentistry and the Standard of Care. Risk Management, Record Keeping, and Ethics” for remediation in risk management.  This course is the first online risk management course ever preapproved for remediation by the Arizona State Board of Dental Examiners. New Jersey, Florida, and Mississippi preapproved the course a week later for remediation in risk management, record keeping, and ethics.  

Dr. Dovgan is a governor approved dental expert witness for the State of Arizona for the Parsons V. Ryan class action lawsuit and his reports were accepted by the 9th district court.  He is also an Attorney General approved dental expert witness for the State of Michigan for the Johannes v. Hayes class action lawsuit and his reports were accepted by the 6th district court. He was also approved in the state of Illinios for the class action lawsuit Clay vs. Dart and his reports were accepted by the 7th district court.  Lastly. He was the dental expert witness for the Federal case Smego v. Mitchel in Illinois in which his reports were accepted by the 7th district court.  

Dr. Dovgan lectured at the national level for the ADA in 2016 on “The Standard of Care.” What is it? What is it not? He also previously lectured at the Western Regional Dental Experience on the Standard of Care.

Dr. Dovgan has been retained as a dental expert witness in over 350 malpractice cases for both defendants and plaintiffs throughout the United States since the beginning of 2010 due to his expertise in the standard of care. He has over 4000 hours of continuing education and has been a beta tester for Dentrix, a dental software program commonly used by dentists throughout the United States. He has lectured and done live patient demonstrations using both hard and soft tissue lasers. He has taught hundreds of dentists how to operate dental lasers and has published in Restorative Implant Dentistry. Dr. Dovgan has also served as a dental consultant to several dental companies. 

Additionally, He is a board-approved anesthesia evaluator and onsite inspection evaluator. He had administered oral examinations and onsite inspections for anesthesia permits.

Dr. Dovgan authored “The Dental Consultant Manual” otherwise known as “The Ultimate Guide to Dentistry's Standard of Care.” This Manual is PACE and AGD approved for 10 hours in continuing education. This Manual is used by the Arizona State Board of Dental Examiners for all its consultants, investigators and Dental board members as a guide to assist in determining the standard of care in dentistry.  The AADB (American Association of Dental Boards) sent out this Manual to all 50 states in 2021 for all their board members, investigators and consultants to use it as a guide for their states as well. 

Lastly, Dr. Dovgan has been involved with dental company patent infringement lawsuits, corporate lawsuits that include defense cases for restaurants (patrons for negligence), car accidents cases, grocery store accidents, workman's compensation cases, state jail cases, and has been an expert witness for dental schools and dental school faculty.