What : 9th International Congress on Dental Law and Ethics
Where : Leuven
When : August 22-24, 2012

The main theme of the congress is “INSURANCE”
The main topics of the congress will be : Health care insurance, Liability insurance, Patient rights, the legal aspects of dental expert investigation (civil and criminal law), ethics.
Healthcare Insurance : Right to Health care – affordable dental care ? Dental tourism and legal consequences.
Related topics are : malpractice, evaluation of dental damage, Quality control, standard of care, the role of the expert-witness and the dental advisor of insurance companies. Liability insurance.
Legal aspects of Forensic odontology : Collecting information and confidentiality , liability of the forensic odontologist, Legal problems related to Disaster Victim identification
Patient rights : quality of services, free choice of practitioner, informed consent, well kept dental dossier, privacy, right to complain,.
Ethics : Professionalism in dentistry, Right to health care, Patient rights, Duties of the practitioner.

For further informations, please find this pdf file :
DE FLYER 11 2011