Subsection 3: Duties of dental surgeons in relation to social medicine.

The dental surgeon in charge of the examination is bound by professional secrecy with regard to the administration or the body employing him. The conclusions he provides must be of an administrative nature only, without indicating the medical reasons for them. Information of a medical nature contained in the files drawn up by the practitioner may not be communicated to persons outside the medical service or to any other administration.

No one may be both expert dental surgeon and treating dental surgeon for the same patient. Unless the parties agree otherwise, the dental surgeon must not accept an expert mission in which the interests of one of his clients, one of his friends, one of his relatives, one of his associates, or a group that calls on his services are at stake. The same applies when his own interests are…

Before undertaking any expert examination, the dental surgeon must inform the person to be examined of his mission. He must refrain from making any comments during the examination.

When entrusted with his mission, the expert dental surgeon must recuse himself if he considers that the questions put to him are foreign to dentistry, unless he provokes the appointment of a sapiteur. In drafting his report, the expert dental surgeon must only reveal elements likely to provide answers to the questions asked in the decision that appointed him. Outside these limits, the expert dental surgeon must not reveal what…