title: [Dentistry and health care legislation 1. Professional standard for oral healthcare delivery].
abstract: A dentist should deliver oral healthcare according to the professional standard. This legal determination is not very distinct and ought to be made more specific. Guidelines, protocols, and indicators play an important role in this respect, but are scarce in oral healthcare. Provisionally, judgements of discipline and complaints committees are heavily relied upon. Those judgements indicate what efforts, and in some cases even what results, a patient could have expected from a dentist in the specified conditions.
authors: Universitair Medisch Centrum Groningen. wbrands1@kpnmail.nl
authors: W G
authors: WG
authors: Brands
authors: J M
authors: JM
authors: van der Ven
authors: M A J
authors: MA
authors: Eijkman
mesh_terms: D002983:Clinical Competence; D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000592:standards*; D003813:Dentistry / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D007879:Legislation, Dental; D011361:Professional Competence