SURVEY AND ANALYSIS OF THE JURISPRUDENCE OF THE COURT OF JUSTICE OF THE STATE OF PARANÁ CONCERNING THE CIVIL LIABILITY OF DENTAL SURGEONS (Atena Editora)

Abstract

There has been an increase in the number of lawsuits filed against dental surgeons (DCs) in Brazil over the last few years. This study aims to understand and analyze the jurisprudence of the Court of Justice of the State of Paraná (TJPR) regarding the civil liability of dental surgeons, as well as present the profile and understanding of the factors involved in these legal proceedings. This is a documentary research, carried out by consulting the TJPR website, selecting the consultation option, the jurisprudence option, then selecting the jurisprudence research field. After completing these initial steps, the following keywords will be used for consultation in the free search field: “Dental surgeon”, “Dental clinic”, “Dentist”, “Dental”, “Dental error”, “Dentistry”, “Dentologist” and “Odontologist”. To filter the legal proceedings that occurred between January 2000 and December 2020, the keywords initially used were refined with another keyword: civil liability of the Dental professional. For analysis of jurisprudence, the cases were reclassified as follows: year of judgment; area of activity or specialty of the professional; average compensation value. Excel® spreadsheets were created to record data from the evaluated processes, so that the analysis of the same process would not be counted when the keywords or any other study variable were crossed. After collecting the research data, graphs and tables were created to compare and analyze the final results. In view of this, we obtained data relating to the quantitative and qualitative profile of lawsuits against dentistry professionals, as well as guidance for dental surgeons on the importance of knowing the characteristics of the legal demand and its implications for their contemporary professional activity.