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RILLO, Arturo G. Informed consent: ethical issues and legislation in dentistry. Rev Hum Med [online]. 2013, vol.13, n.2, pp. 393-411. ISSN 1727-8120.

Scientific advances and their technical application in the field of Dentistry, have led to a bioethical reflection about practice in this discipline by asking questions like: how to understand the dentist´s role, how to set the dentist´s bioethical universe?, how is the valid informed consent made possible? To answer these questions, the patient-dentist relationship is taken as a starting point, and goes through the dentist´s bioethical aspects and informed consent characteristics in dental practice. The conclusion highlights the importance of the informed consent as a way to recover a person´s dignity by which the otherness of the patient is recognized as well as to contribute to the patient´s health education promoting responsibility towards autonomy and rights.

Palavras-chave : informed consent; bioethics; general practice dental; ethics dental; legislation dental.

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