Knowledge of Dentistry undergraduates about Orofacial Harmonization
The demand for aesthetic and rejuvenating treatments is increasing in society and it is also evident in Dentistry, in which many professionals aim to highlight the beauty of the patient. In this context, many dentists are doing procedures to harmonizing teeth, lips and face as a whole set. This situ...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2020 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Institución: | Associação Brasileira de Ensino Odontológico (ABENO) |
| Repositorio: | Revista da ABENO (Online) |
| Idioma: | portugués inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.revabeno.emnuvens.com.br:article/904 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://revabeno.emnuvens.com.br/revabeno/article/view/904 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Ethics Dental. Esthetics. Legislation Dental. Forensic Dentistry. Ética Odontológica. Estética. Legislação Odontológica. Odontologia Legal. |
| Sumario: | The demand for aesthetic and rejuvenating treatments is increasing in society and it is also evident in Dentistry, in which many professionals aim to highlight the beauty of the patient. In this context, many dentists are doing procedures to harmonizing teeth, lips and face as a whole set. This situation needs to be analyzed based in current legislation, also considering the administrative rules and resolutions. The present study aimed to verify the knowledge of undergraduate students in Dentistry from the first and the last semester of the graduation, through a questionnaire with ten questions about the ethical and legal aspects of procedures that integrate the Orofacial Harmonization, as well as the sources of information about the issue. It was possible to observe that in the first semester, most of the answers include the permissibility of the procedures, fact that differs from the answers of the students from the last semester, because they consider as prohibited procedures for dentists. Thus, it is evidenced the importance of the Forensic Dentistry in formation of a critical and reflexive profile of the students during the undergraduate courses, given the divergence between the understanding of participants from the first and the last semester about the permissibility of the procedures |
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