Máximo Fernández Colón
Oro-maxillofacial pain: medicolegal evaluation, under the perspective of forensic psychiatry
- Physician with the specialties of Psychiatrist and Occupational Medicine
- Holder of the Subspecialty of Forensic Psychiatry by the Ordem dos Médicos
- Graduated assistant with the degree of consultant in Forensic Psychiatry from the INMLCF
Nationality: Spain
Scientific areas: Forensic dentistry
18 of november, from 18h05 until 18h40
Auditorium D
Conference summary
The assessment of permanent affectation of psychophysical integrity by the psychiatrist, which has former been designated as permanent functional deficit, in a given legal framework (criminal, civil or labor) is a complex exercise, broad and difficult to establish.
The valuation of bodily/personal (or psychophysical) harm has to do with the application of medical (psychiatric) knowledge to the description, characterization and eventual compensation of a psychopathological disorder attributable to a traumatic event.
Oro-maxillofacial pain, like all chronic pain sequelae, due to its special repercussion on psychic integrity, can lead to a permanent psychiatric condition, which can be valued from a forensic-psychiatric point of view.
Early intervention, both in pain and in the psychological aspect (psychiatric and psychotherapeutic), can prevent the chronicity of this type of reactive conditions.