The class is addressed to provide education for different areas of Legal Medicine in Dentistry:
1) Dental law , dental ethics
2) Dental liability. Professional errors, causal link, onus of the proof, crimes and civil damages. Informed consent.
3) Insurance general concepts and insurance for dental professionals.
4) dental identification of dead bodies; dental profiling; bitemark analysis; dental age estimation, mass disaster and DVI procedures
Norelli, Pinchi et Al, Odontologia Forense, parte 1 e 2, Piccin 2011
Learning Objectives - Part A
The scope: to educate the dentist about his/her duties established by criminal, civil and deontological codes. Secondly to provide education about the insurance grants and issues and the elements of forensic odontology and dental identification
Prerequisites - Part A
Requirements established by the Coruse of degree
Teaching Methods - Part A
Classes
Type of Assessment - Part A
oral examination
Course program - Part A
The program is:
1- Definition of different kinds of dental offices/surgeries/facilities
2- Laws about authorization of dental offices
3- Laws relating to: radiological equipment, sanitary waste, advertisement, sterilization, dental files of patients, dental devices
4- Definition od medical and non-medical health professionals, health art, field of activity of the dentist, dental ID, dental technician
5- Concept of crimes, mental state of the defendant, personal lesions, homicide, false, illegal practice
6- Responsibility, liability and fault: definitions; causal link, medico-legal criteria for the ascertainment of causal link
7- General civil responsibility, liability ex contractu, contractual obligations, onus of the proof in criminal and in civil proceedings.
8- Informed consent for dental treatment. The quantum of information. Legal duties for practitioner to obtain a valid consent.
9- Duty of confidentiality. Duties of reporting in cases of crimes for health professionals and public officials. Certificate and receipt.
10- Definition and concepts of damage evaluation; definition of lesion and impairment. Concept of “biological damage”
11- Insurance. Genral concept of insurance provided by civil code. Definition of social insurance. Insurances for civil liability. Insurance contracts for dentists: grants, limitations, exclusions, coverage of collaborators.
12- Dental identification, definitions and areas of interest (living and dead bodies). General identification by teeth (diagnosis of species, ancestry, age, gender). Specific comparison through matching of dental data for living or dead bodies. Photo/radiographic identification. Comparison of dental forms.
13- Dental age estimation
14- Bite mark analysis
15- Mass disaster and Interpol procedures. Comparison, reconciliation of AM and PM data, final statement of identification.
16- General concepts of traumatology.