The office will collect, use and disclose information about you for the following purposes:
• To deliver safe and efficient patient care. • To identify and to ensure continuous high quality of service.
• To assess your health needs and to provide health care. • To advise you of your treatment options. • To enable us to contact you and to establish and maintain communication with you. • To offer and provide treatment, care and services in relationship to the oral and maxillofacial complex and
dental care referring dentists and / or peripheral dentists. • To allow us to maintain contact you to distribute healthcare information and to book confirm
appointments. This may include sending postcard type- reminders through the mail. • To allow us to efficiently follow up for treatment, care and billing. • To complete/submit predetermination and dental claims for third party adjudication and payment; to
provide further information that your insurer may request to aid in the processing claims. • To comply with legal and regulatory requirements, including the delivery of patient’s charts and records
to The Royal College of Dental Surgeons of Ontario in a timely fashion, when required and records to the
provisions of the Regulated Health Professionals Act. • To comply with the agreements/ undertakings entered into the voluntary by the member with the Royal
College of Dental Surgeons of Ontario, Including the delivery and/ or review of patient’s charts and
records to the college in a timely fashion or regulatory monitoring purposes. • To permit potential purchasers, practice brokers and advisors to conduct an audit in preparation for a
practice sale. • To deliver your charts and records to the dentists insurance carrier to enable the insurance company to
assess liability and quantity of damage, if any; • To prepare materials for the Health Professionals Appeal and Review Board (HPARB). • To invoice for goods and services. • To process credit card payments. • To collect unpaid accounts. • To assist this office to comply with all regulatory requirements. • To comply with the law. By signing this consent form, you have agree and consent to the collection, use and / or disclosure of your personal
information for the purposes that are listed above. If any new purpose arises for the use and/ or disclosure of your
personal information, we will seek your approval in advance.
Your information may be accessed by regulatory authorities under the terms of the Regulated Health Professionals
Act (RHPA) for the purposes of the Royal College of Dental Surgeons of Ontario fulfilling its mandate under the
RHPA, and for the defense of a legal issue.
Our office will not under any conditions supply your insurer with your confidential medical history. In the event
this kind of request is made, we will forward this information directly for your review, and for your specific
consent. When unusual requests are received, we will contact you for your permission to release any information.
We may also advise you if such release is inappropriate.
You may withdraw your consent for use or disclosure of your personal information, and we will explain the
ramifications of the decision along with following steps.