Quejas presentadas en el ejercicio de la odontología en la regional Santander, ante el tribunal de ética odontológica, 2006 - 2016

Abstract

The professional of dentistry, must always be trained the necessary time to ensure the success of any procedure, count and implement all measures of biosafety for the protection of the patient and their own health, responding to one of the fundamental pillars of responsibility Legal: "Do no harm to anyone" (2). This principle, in the case of complaints or denunciations, materializes as an injury caused to another individual, which must be compensated by legal mandate. For this reason this research was carried out with the aim of analyzing the complaints in the dental practice in the Santander regional, presented before the Dental Ethics Tribunal during the period between 2006 and 2016. The investigation was developed as a cross-sectional descriptive observational study, in which it was possible to demonstrate that during the last ten years, 207 malpractice complaints were filed with the Santander regional dental ethics tribunal, of which 26.8% were of these were caused during the years 2013 to 2014, of all the complaints filed, 32.4% presented charges in the professional and were sanctioned by the court; evidencing the same as the average time of seniority of exercise of the profession was 14.8 (± 7.1) The results obtained in this study show that there are still difficulties for the established guidelines to fully comply with the objectives, since the deficiencies in the Bioethics programs are clearly seen, focused on the promotion of the Ethics regulation of the Colombian Dentist.