Current Paediatrics
Volume 12, Issue 6 , Pages 519-521, December 2002

Multidisciplinary ethical problem presenting as toothache

  • Mark Brennan (Visiting Senior Lecturer in Medical Ethics/Honorary Research Fellow)

      Affiliations

    • Lecturer in Medical and Dental Education, UWCM, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Centre for Ethics in Medicine, University of Bristol, UK
    • ,
  • Richard Oliver (Senior Lecturer/Honorary Consultant in Orthodontics)

      Affiliations

    • Dental School, University of Wales College of Medicine, Cardiff, CF14 4XY, UK
    • Correspondence to: RO. Department of Dental Health and Development Dental School, University of Wales College of Medicine, Health Park, Cardiff CF14 4XY, UK. Tel.: +44 29 20742 447. E-mail: oliver@cf.ac.uk

Abstract 

The ethical issues associated with the multidisciplinary management of a 15-year-old boy with a medical history of haemophilia and hepatitis, who attended a dental teaching hospital in urgent need of dental treatment with a parent who disclosed his medical history in confidence, and who requested that the dental practitioner should not disclose this information to the patient, are presented and discussed.

Keywords: dentistry, haemophilia, hepatitis, Gillick consent, confidentiality, multidisciplinary approach, withholding of information

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PII: S0957-5839(02)90336-2

doi:10.1054/cupe.2002.0336

Current Paediatrics
Volume 12, Issue 6 , Pages 519-521, December 2002

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