What Dental Malpractice Means Legally
The Georgian trajectory of dental malpractice is professional and disciplinary, defined by the Law on Medical Activity. Its foundation is the concept of professional liability: a subject of independent medical activity answers for violations of medical standards and ethical norms connected with the examination, care and treatment of a patient. A dentist is a subject of this law, since dental specialties belong to the list of medical specialties — the same liability regime therefore extends to the dentist.
The application of this regime begins with what the patient sees: carelessly performed treatment, an unjustified procedure or a breach of the standard. Legally, everything begins with a single question: was a medical standard or an ethical norm violated — and it is to precisely this question that the Council, the organ examining questions of professional liability, gives its answer.