KEBIJAKAN INFORMED CONSENT DALAM PELAYANAN GIGI DI INDONESIA DENTAL CARE INFORMED CONSENT POLICY IN INDONESIA

Abstract

More than 50% out patients in Puskesmas at Surabaya city
came to the dentist for dental permanent extraction. The target
ratio between filling and extraction that government stated
were 1:1, but coveraged in Puskesmas at Surabaya City in
2003 were 1:5,9. Informed consent was given to patients
before the actions, consisted the diagnoses, procedures, the
medical purpose, alternative actions, risks, possible
complications and prognoses.
In Indonesia, there were not the rules yet that regulated the
informed consent before dental extraction. The law of
Indonesian Medical Practices No. 29/2004 has described the
responsibilities to do the informed consent for the actions that
purposed on preventive, diagnostic, teurapeutic and
rehabilitative. So, a dental extraction which is the teurapeutic
prosedured needs the informed consent. After all, the informed
consent should be protect both of patient as a subject and
doctor/paramedic from unpredictable conditions.
Keywords: informed consent, dental permanent extraction,
policy