Judge condemns to a dental technician to pay a fine of €360 per dentist’s own tasks.
the official College of odontologists and stomatologists of Valencia calls for a toughening of sentences related to professional intrusion.
Madrid, March of 2013. The Court of investigation No. 9 Valencia has condemned a dental technician for a crime of professional intrusion to the tasks of a dentist to a patient and has condemned him to the sentence of two months of fine with six euros (US $360) daily fee, as well as to the payment of the costs caused in the procedure.
The prosthetic acknowledged certain facts that against him, reason by which the defense of the accused said unnecessary the holding of the trial, requiring to be handed down her sentence with a reduction of one third of the penalty requested.
The official College of odontologists and stomatologists in Valencia, in line with the General Council, warns of negative consequences of the cases of professional intrusion for the health of patients and remember that dental technicians cannot look clinically patients, so any intervention by a technician in a patient’s mouth would be professional intrusion.
Both the General Council and the College of Valencia manifest that it is key to get a greater hardening of the penalties, taking into account the serious damage that can have on the health of the population, compared with which the current penalties are ridiculous.
