The importance of the updating of knowledge to avoid errors when performing dental treatments, bioethical analysis of clinical case

The dental practice is an activity of great importance in the area of health, where professionals constantly facing various ethical dilemmas.It is your responsibility to take appropriate decisions to respect the physical and psychological integrity of the patient to improve their quality of life. In...

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Autores: Cabrera Jiménez, IA, Ortiz Ruiz, J, Balderas Delgadillo, C, Díaz Montiel, VA
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2016
País:México
Institución:UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DEL ESTADO DE HIDALGO
Repositorio:Educación y salud Boletín Científico Instituto de Ciencias de la Salud Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Hidalgo
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:repository.uaeh.edu.mx:article/272
Acceso en línea:https://repository.uaeh.edu.mx/revistas/index.php/ICSA/article/view/272
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Dentistry, bioethics , responsibility, dentist , patient.
Odontología, bioética, responsabilidad, odontólogo, paciente.
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Sumario:The dental practice is an activity of great importance in the area of health, where professionals constantly facing various ethical dilemmas.It is your responsibility to take appropriate decisions to respect the physical and psychological integrity of the patient to improve their quality of life. In the following case the professional lack of knowledge and lack of ethics makes a wrong intervention, forcing the patient to go to another clinic. Each dentist must make determinations on whether or not competent to make an early diagnosis or to carry out specific treatments in certain clinical circumstances, it is important to raise awareness among healthcare professionals and training institutions, about the risk of loss of credibility in society as well as being informed of the main causes of patient discomfort resulting from the absence of ethical precepts.