Legitimidade e licitude da técnica de separação acompanhante-criança durante o atendimento odontológico no contexto brasileiro
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2008-12
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Introduction: The technique for separating parent/caregiver and
child during the dental treatment deserves further and profound
discussion in the light of the legal and moral references involving
the dental treatment of children and adolescents because this
debate seems not to be properly addressed in the Brazilian dental
literature. The theoretical reference on which this study is based
contemplates three specific approaches on the investigated subject
in both their aspects of legitimacy and legality of the technique:
technical and ethical aspects (Deontology and Bioethics) and legal
aspects (Civil Law Code, Statute of the Children and Adolescents
and Consumer Defense Code).
Objective: This literature review consists in the survey and analysis
of ethical and legal aspects involved in the use of the separation
technique during behavioral management of the child during the
dental treatment, aiming to guide and advise the dentists and other
health professionals to ponder upon this dialectic relationship
between the professionals and their patients.
Conclusion: There is no evidence that separating children from
their parents/caregivers during dental treatment will result in a better
behavior of the children. The ethical and legal aspects related to
this technique are the child’s vulnerability and incapacity, the need
of protecting the personal autonomy, the analysis of the technique’s
risks and benefits, the education and information to the family as
regards the dental treatment of the child and the informed consent
given by the child’s legal representative. This technique may be
considered as illegitimate and illegal if its use is not shared among
the dentist, the child and the child’s legal representative. The Brazilian
dentists should encourage the presence of the child’s and
adolescent’s legal representative during the dental treatment and
the use of the separation technique should be seen as an extreme
measure to be employed with the common decision shared by all
involved participants.
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Assistência odontológica para crianças, Temas bioéticos, Defesa da criança e do adolescente, Ética odontológica
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COSTA, Luciane Ribeiro de Rezende Sucasas da et al. Legitimidade e licitude da técnica de separação acompanhante-criança durante o atendimento odontológico no contexto brasileiro. Pesquisa Brasileira em Odontopediatria e Clínica Integrada, João Pessoa, v. 8, n. 9, p. 367-373, set./dez. 2008.