Ethic values in the stomatologic practice. Commitment from the primary care

Abstract

During centuries, the odontological practice performs its activities from the ethic perspective of the Hippocratic medicine carrying out a paternalistic-kind healing practice. Currently, Bioethics understanding in the Stomatology 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 Stomatologists 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 ethic values in the stomatologic 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.