Resumen

GARBIN, C. A. S; GONCALVES, P. E  y  GARBIN, A. J. I. Consentimiento informado en la práctica odontológica brasileña: sus aspectos éticos y legales. Acta odontol. venez [online]. 2006, vol.44, n.2, pp.261-264. ISSN 0001-6365.

The consent report or Informed consent  is of supreme importance in the survey wrapping human beings, in which indicates the individual approval of the voluntary of the participation of these, according to the resolution 196 of October 10 1996 of the National Council of Health of Brazil. At the moment their importance is not only restricted to the scientific survey, but also to the clinical practice, since its brought the application from the ethics to the clinics dentistry, and its judicial value that transformed the practical dentistry into an informative and deliberative process, which is based in the effective Brazilian ethical and legal legislations. Therefore, it is denoted the importance of the professional's responsibility and the patient's reciprocity so much in the discussion and decision about their treatment, having the patient the right of to consent or to refuse proposals of preventive, diagnostic or therapeutic character that affect or they come to affect their physical-psychic or social integrity, after complete understanding and understanding based on values and personal beliefs, taking it to a conscious and consequent election. However, the illustrious free consent has not come to abolish the parcel of the patient's action in front of the treatment, being its task to assume the responsibility for its own health, and point out through the revision of the literature the growing ethical and legal importance of the illustrious free consent to the professional-patient binomial, guiding the surgeon-dentist therefore in its daily behavior of the knowledge, and in the formulation of a conscious practice.

Palabras clave : Informed consent; Ethics in Dentistry; Bioethics; Clinical practice.