title: The personalized consent form: an optional, but useful tool!
abstract: Dentistry began to incorporate informed consent and risk management into its practice after 1950. Today, an obligation to ensure that the patient has accepted a given treatment and understands all its implications are part of a dentist"s prime responsibilities. The purpose of this article is to inform dentists who are asking for consent that they can use a tool to make this task easier--the personalized consent form.
authors.affiliation: cyndie.dube.baril@videotron.ca
authors.forename: Cyndie
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Dubé-Baril
mesh_terms: D032962:Consent Forms / Q000941:ethics / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D003729:Dental Care / Q000941:ethics / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D004990:Ethics, Dental; D006801:Humans; D007258:Informed Consent / Q000941:ethics / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D011792:Quebec