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    STUDIA BIOETHICA - Issue no. 1-2 / 2020  
         
  Article:   ETHICAL DILEMMA IN DENTISTRY PRACTICE DURING COVID 19 PANDEMIC.

Authors:  RALUCA IURCOV, MAGDALENA IORGA, BEATRICE GABRIELA IOAN.
 
       
         
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DOI: 10.24193/subbbioethica.2020.03

Published Online: 2020-12-30
Published Print: 2020-12-30
pp. 33-48

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ABSTRACT.
The dental medical services were forced to follow the decisions of the various national governments that declared a state of emergency and consequently the dental offices were closed for long periods. The present theoretical paper focuses on the moral and ethical aspects related to the patients’ access to dental services and to dentists’ activity (from interdiction of practice to re-opening, with strict preventive rules to combat de spread of infection). The article presents the situation of Romanian dentists during the first six weeks of the pandemic, and it analyses the struggles of patients and doctors to access and to provide dental services during COVID 19 pandemic.

Keywords: ethics, dentistry, Romania, pandemic, medicine, COVID 19.
 
         
     
         
         
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