Legal and Forensic Dentistry
Main language of instruction: Spanish
Other languages of instruction: Catalan, English
Head instructor
This course provides students of degree in Dentistry the necessary basis in Legal and Forensic dentistry.
No son obligatorios.
-Promote the acquisition of knowledge, skills, attitudes and professional behaviors that facilitate effective and appropriate interaction with patients, colleagues and other health professionals.
- Encourage the recognition and acceptance of the obligation to practice in the best interest of patients at all times and in accordance with the health legislation.
- Encourage the acquisition of knowledge, skills and attitudes that promote learning throughout the life of an effective way to allow a proper professional development.
- Promote research in dentistry and constant training for the study of new techniques and improvements in the dental profession.
- Provide a clear idea of what legal and forensic dentistry in the whole of the legal aspects of the health sciences and the need and purpose of the subject.
- Provide the necessary knowledge to exercise properly the future dental profession according to legal rules.
INTRODUCTION TO LEGAL AND FORENSIC DENTISTRY.
-Concept and definition.
-Importance and objectives.
-Classification.
-History and current situation.
Thanatology
-Concept of death.
-Diagnosis of certain death.
-Type of death.
-Cadaveric phenomena.
-Destroyers of the corpse and conservative processes.
-Conservative natural processes of the body.
-Conservative artificial processes of the body.
-Thanatological medicolegal problems.
-Autopsy.
-Legal and clinical autopsy.
-Autopsy techniques.
-Odontostomatological autopsy: indications, techniques.
-Extraction of maxillary and skeletonization.
FORENSIC PATHOLOGY
-Fatal injuries.
-Non-fatal injuries.
-Type of violent deaths.
-Suffocation.
-Stab injuries.
-Firearm injuries. Explosions.
-Carbonized injuries.
-Lesions by physical and chemical agents.
-Traffic accidents.
-Medico-legal problems in major disasters.
-Role of the forensic dentist.
-Standards to fill dental INTERPOL formularies.
4 CRIMINOLOGY
-Definition.
-Objectives.
-History.
-Identification. Methods.
-Comparative and Reconstructive identification.
-Importance of the dentistry in identifying.
-Methodology in research on living beings, skeletons and recent corpses.
-Soft tissue on identification.
5. FORENSIC ANTHROPOLOGY
-Laboratory identification.
Study of DNA identification.
6 BITES
-Properties.
-Registration.
-Taking of impressions.
-Histology.
-Antemortem and postmortem diagnosis.
7. DENTAL LAW.
-The examination in dentistry.
-The dentist as an expert.
-Expertise in criminal, civil, labour.
-Professional liability. Concept.
-Criminal and civil responsibility of the dentist.
-Major circumstances of responsibility.
-Types of malpractice.
-Negligence and recklessness.
-Legal and medical assessment.
-More frequent dental claims.
-Requirements for the practice of dentistry.
-Medical history.
-The prescription in dentistry.
-Legal documents.
-Rights of the patient.
-Professional secret.
-Informed approbation.
-Sanitary legislation of interest in dentistry.
8. EVALUATION OF THE DENTAL DAMAGE.
-Crime of injury.
-Prognosis of injuries.
-Classification of the lesions.
-Bodily injury and evaluation in dentistry.
-Scales used in the valuation of the dental damage. Methodology and training activities.
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Mosby. Dictionary of dentistry. 2nd ed. Barcelona: Elsevier-Mosby, 2009.
Moya-Pueyo V, Roldan-garrido B, Heterosis JA. Legal and forensic dentistry. Barcelona: Masson, 1994.
Prahlow JA, Byard RW. Atlas of forensic pathology. New York: Springer, 2012.
Correa-Ramirez A.I. forensic identification. Mexico: Trillas. 1990.
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