The Professional Association of dentists of Valencia assumes the role of mediator between the citizen and the practitioner to incorporate the measures of the new ethical code of dentistry

reinforces the role of professional control and requires that the clinical criteria put ahead to the purely commercial

-the code obliges advertising professionals is based on principles of truthfulness, fair competition and protection of the patient

Valencia, August 2012.- dentists must prevail at all times, criteria clinical against the economic or commercial; avoid the sobre-tratamientos or unnecessary treatments for their patients, maintain his training under constant review and exercise an advertising based on the principles of truthfulnessfair competition and protection of the patient and his health.

These are some of the innovations of the new code of ethics of dentistry, updated document from the General Council that the College of dentists and stomatologists of Valencia has incorporated to your day to day, as a means to ensure the best service, in a context of fair and humanized treatment, at the best possible price.

Another of the most relevant developments of the new ethical code of dentistry, is the role of mediators between patients and professionals grants to professional associations, organizations that has lead the patient to raise doubts, complaints or disputes relating to professional practice.

It is a step forward to consolidate the professionalization of this activity, ensure the user maximum quality, professionalism and service professional honesty and a set of binding rules for the professional who will own benefit derived from the benefit of the user.

Clinical criteria economic vs

Among other innovations which establishes the ethical code of the dentistry, stresses the obligation of the dentists of putting clinic clinical against the purely commercial or economic criteria, franchise or multinational where they develop their activity. This has been one of the highlights.

With this measure, strengthen guarantees of professionalism, honesty and professional effectiveness by which safeguard professional schools, for the sake of a good relationship between the patient and the professional: the dentist’s life.

In this regard, the President of the dentists College Valencia, Enrique Llobell, has highlighted the advantages that offers the user the fact that a professional incorporates these ethical criteria to their relationship with the patient.

As stated by the President of the Valencian dentists, dentistry is a health service that has to be seen and treated as such, and not as a way of enriching themselves through oversized Diagnostics, last minute offers or gifts by treatments that in many cases, pursue business enrichment above the last good for the patient.

I know a dentist serving me?

The ethical code of dentistry establishes new faculty that patients can and should know at all times the identity, training, career and other characteristics of the dentist that treating them, to comply with its instructions for treatments referred to.

It also establishes that any dentist can be held responsible for events arising from a bad evolution of treatments, provided the patient has not adopted the guidelines offered by the optional.

With this standard, strengthens the relationship between the patient and his lifelong dentist, who will provide all the necessary health, ethical and professional guarantees the patient by adding this code to your professional activity.