title: The responsibilities and rights of dental professionals 3. Professional rights.
abstract: Professional status, professional autonomy, clinical freedom, self-regulation and the right to serve patients and the community seem to be the main rights of dentists. Although they simply may be seen as privileges that are related to being a dentist, these rights cannot be considered independent from dentists' roles and responsibilities. They are, in fact, valuable tools that serve dentists to meet their broad responsibilities that arise from the 'social contract' between the profession and the public.
authors.affiliation: Department of Periodontology, Faculty of Dentistry, University of Hacettepe, 06100 Ankara, Turkey. yamalikn@yahoo.com
authors.forename: Nermin
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Yamalik
mesh_terms: D003812:Dentist-Patient Relations; D003815:Dentists; D006806:Human Rights; D006801:Humans; D028701:Patient Rights; D011215:Practice Management, Dental / Q000592:standards; D019239:Practice Patterns, Dentists' / Q000592:standards; D024382:Professional Role; D012941:Social Responsibility