Comprensión del consentimiento informado en pacientes que requieren extracción del tercer molar

  1. Muñoz Zurita, Guillermo
  2. Sánchez Hernández, Jose Antonio
  3. Rojas Ruiz, Mónica T.
  4. Rivera Tapia, José Antonio
  5. Mendoza López, Emmanuel
Journal:
Revista CONAMED

ISSN: 1405-6704

Year of publication: 2008

Volume: 13

Issue: 1

Pages: 24-28

Type: Article

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Abstract

Introduction. The signing of an informed consent by the patient is required before any procedure. The objectives of this original article were: to know the level of understanding of the informed consent by the patient; to determine the percentage of patients who avoid the treatment when knowing the risks of it. Material and methods. 257 patients, who were submitted to surgical third molar extraction after signing the informed consent. After that, a survey was carried out to check if they had understood the aim of informed consent as well as their opinion about this procedure. Results. Data were processed with descriptive statistics. The most remarkable thing is that 100% of the patients signed the informed consent and they agreed on the surgery. 99.61% understood clearly what was going to be done during the operation. 98% knew that complications might occur and 93.37% were aware of their possibility of denying the operation. More than half of them (61.56%) thought that informed consent serves for exempting the professional from responsibility. This kind of information is thought to be useful for 98.96%. Conclusions. Informed consent was understood by the majority of patients, and no one of them denied to the intervention when they knew the possible complications. There is relevant that many patients believe than the informed consent serves to exempt of responsibility the dentist.

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