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ISPER GARBIN, Artênio José; SALIBA GARBIN, Cléa Adas; CINEL AGOSTINELI, Silvia Milena  y  COELHO DE LIMA, Daniela. Análisis  de los criterios establecidos por el cirujano dentista  ante a la fijación de honorarios y la forma de pago. Acta odontol. venez [online]. 2007, vol.45, n.3, pp.341-345. ISSN 0001-6365.

ABSTRACT Every human service that is transformed into utility must be paid by certain way. It is known as honorarium the remuneration paid to those who exert a liberal profession, that is, those that have a technical-scientific and cultural heap of their own. In dentistry, it is very difficult to standardize the honorarium due to the great amount of professional variables, derived from patients, from the community and from the individuality of each clinical case, which condition the costs. According to dental ethics code, honorarium is not conceptualized, but criteria are established without obliging, authorizing or prohibiting the professional to estimate the honorarium. The aim of this study was to verify the criteria applied by dental surgeons from Jales and Santa Fe do Sul - SP, to establish their honorarium, as well as the way of payment. A questionnaire containing dissertative and multiple - choice tests was applied to 100 members of the Regional Dentistry Council of this cities. The results indicated most of the subjects, that is, 46,5% received their honorarium by checks and the values were established according to the complexity of clinical case ( 25,6% ); 54,6% determined their honorarium based upon some tables, for 19,8% of the subjects, their honorarium was not considered to be fair and 60% had problems with debtor patients. Through these result one can conclude most of the dentists felt difficulty in establishing their honorarium and considered that their remuneration was not fair

Palabras clave : Fees Dental; forensic  dentistry; Oral Health; Dental Care.