[Medico-legal aspects of orthodontics]

The deep technological innovations undergone by the medical profession, the changed relationships between physician and patient, the ever-growing attention given by public opinion to sanitary problems, as well as the growing expectation for the positive results of all me actions have determined, specially in these last years, medico-legal problems connected to the different spestic medico-surgery activities, so that also the ortodo is called to a constant comparison not only with ethical deontological problems, but with the juridical ones too.