JURIDICAL ANALYSIS OF THE LEGAL RESPONSIBILITIES OF DENTISTS IN THEIR WORK AND THEIR AUTHORITY

Abstract

The job of a dentist is to make artificial teeth, namely removable artificial teeth made from acrylic material. However, in reality, there are still dentists who work outside their authority, such as filling teeth, extracting teeth, installing braces, dental veneers , scaling and bleaching . Many cases that harm the public as consumers and service users occur due to work done by dentists outside their authority, such as infections, cancer and even death. This is due to the fact that the work of dentists is only based on knowledge passed down from generation to generation, not based on formal education in dentistry .

The lack of public awareness of dental and oral health and the absence of government guidance and supervision of the work of dental technicians so that they work in accordance with applicable regulations have resulted in an increase in the number of cases that are detrimental to the community as recipients of dental services. The aim of this thesis is to review the legal perspective on the responsibilities of dentists in their work and their authority.

The method used in normative juridical research uses statutory, conceptual and comparative legal approaches. It can be seen from the research results that from a legal perspective, mistakes made by dentists who work outside their authority as regulated in Minister of Health Regulation Number 39 of 2014 cover several legal aspects, namely aspects of criminal law, civil law and state administrative law.