title: [Patients with unusual requests for extractions 1. professional standard versus patient's autonomy].
abstract: Assertive patients will, in the future, more readily appear with their own diagnosis. As a result, dentists will more often be confronted with sometimes rather unusual requests from patients. An extreme request from a patient is the removal of (all) teeth. The central issue in this article is how to deal with such a request. The conclusion is that the patient's autonomy is limited by the professional standards of the dentist and the patient's capacity to assess in a reasonable way what is in his own best interests.
authors.affiliation: Uit ide Stichting Bijzondere Tandheelkunde (SBT) in Amsterdam. d.broers@sbt.acta.nl
authors.forename: D L M
authors.initials: DL
authors.lastname: Broers
authors.forename: W G
authors.initials: WG
authors.lastname: Brands
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: de Jongh
authors.forename: D L
authors.initials: DL
authors.lastname: Willems
mesh_terms: D003812:Dentist-Patient Relations; D003813:Dentistry / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D017060:Patient Satisfaction; D026684:Personal Autonomy; D016079:Refusal to Treat; D018570:Risk Assessment; D014081:Tooth Extraction / Q000523:psychology*