In principle, the dental surgeon must agree to see any other dental surgeon or doctor for a consultation when such a consultation is requested by the patient or the patient’s family.
When a consultation is requested by the family or the treating dental surgeon, the latter may indicate which consultant he prefers, but he must give the family the greatest freedom and accept the consultant it wishes, guided above all by the interests of his patient.
The treating dental surgeon may withdraw if someone wishes to impose on him a consultant whom he refuses; he does not owe anyone an explanation for his refusal.