A importância do prontuário odontológico na clínica de graduação em Odontologia e a responsabilidade ética pela sua guarda

Introduction – The dental file is the student’s first contact with the patient. This document offers an opportunity for the teacher to guide his student to achieve a professional attitude, besides being a proof of the legal relation between patient and professional, which produces rights and obligations to the college patient, to the institution and to the teachers. Therefore, the dental file should be well structured and appropriately filed because it is the best instrument that the professional or the teacher responsible for the student can count on to produces the necessary proof on his defense. Thus, it is recommended that colleges should give more emphasis on dentistry-legal subjects in order to avoid future problems against their graduated students.