As a Full-Time Dental Hygiene Faculty Member Assigned to Teach

As a full-time dental hygiene faculty member assigned to teach the community oral health course for the first time, you are developing the ethics unit for the course. You develop classroom activities to reinforce the points in the students' reading assignment.
-The first day of class, you ask students to work in groups to identify examples of ethics in society, professional ethics, professional responsibility, and laws that govern the practice of dental hygiene. One of the students asks you to explain the relationships among professional laws, professional ethics, and social responsibility. Which of the following is a correct response?

A) These terms can be used interchangeably because the concepts mean the same thing.
B) Professional ethics is broader than the laws that govern the profession, including a code of conduct by which the profession regulates actions and sets standards, some of which are governed by law and others are not.
C) Ethical conduct and social responsibility have no relationship to the laws that govern the practice of dental hygiene.
D) Addressing disparities in oral health and access to oral health care in our society is not related to our professional laws or professional ethics.