Origin of dentures: towards more transparency
Adopted July 21, 2009, the law known HPST (Hospital Patient Health Territories) “Reform of the hospital and on patient health and territories”, extends the requirement of written information which must now receive the patient. It seems that in the field of dentures we move towards greater transparency. But what about in practice?
Origin dentures: towards more transparency Origin dentures.
The law now requires the dentist to provide the patient a copy of the statement of the medical device manufacturing. This new requirement is an extension of section A. 5211-51 Code of Public Health, established by a decree of April 28, 2009 and will enter into force on March 21, 2010.
This article states: “Under the procedure for medical device, the manufacturer establishes documentation including the name and address of manufacturer, or manufacturing sites, information identifying the device in question the prescriber of the device and, where appropriate, the care facility concerned and the characteristics specified in the prescription.
As of March 21, 2010, pointing drifts by issuing Special Envoy False teeth, real doubts should theoretically be possible. Each patient should now be able to ascertain the exact source of his dentures. Made in France or made in China, the amalgam should not be possible.
If only some prosthetic who subcontract with foreign laboratories may, as a manufacturer, set a record at their address, giving the patient (and dentist) the illusion that his prosthesis was manufactured in France while it comes from another country, with all the risks that entails.
Cost of dentures.
The information that the dentist must give the patient also has “so separated, the purchase price of each item of proposed equipment” and “the prices of all associated services. The cost of materials and the cost of manufacturing the prosthesis should be indicated clearly.
The entire profession and the College of Dentists oppose this provision deemed “excessive and unprecedented”. Arguing that “the act is comprehensive medical benefit and not the purchase cost of the prosthesis, the College of Dentists believes the new law” unjust and disastrous “for the image of the profession. * On site, the College said that “since 1998 in the framework of Directive 93/42, a sheet of medical device to measure the use of certifying products and materials that meet strict standards set and is attached to patient’s medical record.
Certainly. However in practice, the patient did not have access to this form whose existence and utility are therefore very theoretical.
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