Ethical values ​​in dental practice

Abstract

In the practice of dentistry, professionals face diverse ethical dilemmas permanently. Every dentist must make determinations whether he/she has competence for a particular diagnose or to carry out specific treatments in specific clinical circumstances. Bioethics understanding in the dentistry field and the configuration of the scenery for aiming the analysis of the effects that could provoke the odontologist´s actions and omissions in patient´s health, outline the ambit of professional responsibility. For this reason, general integral should unavoidably know their profession ethical principles, and also their responsibilities, with the aim of identifying main health problems for solving them favoring a better population´s health care and satisfaction. The current work pretends to carry out a review on the development of ethical values in the stomatology practice from the present day context where the exigency in the procedures, scientific responsibility, individual or collective auto preparation together with growing compromise with our assigned population, should guide the unarguably important stomatologist´s daily work in primary health care.