Utilization of dental assistants in Orthodontics - ethics and legal implications

Rhonan Ferreira da SILVA, André da Costa MONINI, Eduardo DARUGE JÚNIOR, Luiz FRANCESQUINI JÚNIOR, Marcos Augusto LENZA

Introduction: the work market has been shown to be saturated with professionals working at large urban centers and, for this reason, productive strategies are indispensable. The delegation of functions to dental assistants is becoming vital and quite common for those that work with Orthodontics. Aim: to evaluate the profile of the orthodontists and the workload delegated by them to the dental assistant team. Methods: a questionnaire was given to all specialists in Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics registered at the Regional Council of Dentistry of Goiás, with practices in Goiânia and Aparecida de Goiânia. Results and Conclusions: the results demonstrated that orthodontists, in general, take advantage of the work labor of the dental assistants even surpassing the ethical-legal limits.

Keywords: Orthodontics. Dental assistants. Forensic Dentistry. Ethics.

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