[Medicolegal considerations. Apropos of tooth germ transplantation between 2 twins]

With regard to medicolegal problems, semantics are of considerable importance: indeed, depending on whether we call grafting or transplantation of an organ the operation that takes a living organ to reimplant it in the same person or the operation that takes a living organ from a donor to reimplant it in a recipient, the issues raised are completely different. The transposition of a dental organ does not raise any particular problems apart from the technical requirements to be met; there is no special problem of prevention or ethics to be taken into consideration. The problem is a completely different one when it means taking a living organ from a living or dead subject and reimplanting it in another subject. All measures decreed from the point of view of law and regulations that are dictated by considerations of prevention and ethics must then be strictly applied.