HOLANDA, Daniele Assunção de; MELLO, Victor Villaça Cardoso de    ZIMMERMANN, Rogério Dubosselard. Digital documentation in dentistry. []. , 9, 2, pp. 111-113. ISSN 1677-3888.

The popularization of computer science comes providing the Surgeon-Dentist to use these resources in its work environment. In such a way, with the advance of the systems of digital management in dentistry, is allowed the transformation of the written documentation for the electronic midia. We have as objective to point the legal aspects that must consist in the digital handbooks in the practical clinic for its legal recognition. The final considerations of this revision had suggested tha profissional adequacy to use this dynamic system of information is necessary. Not existing any impediment for the professional in using the electronic midia, since that an authentication carried through ICP-Brazil is made in order to confer them to the same existing faith of paper documents.

: Dental informatics; forensic dentistry; ethics.