[Some specific aspects of dentistry's professional responsibility: tooth extraction surgery, prosthodontics, implantology and HIV infection]. / Su alcuni specifici ambiti di responsabilità professionale dell'odontoiatra: in chirurgia estrattiva, nel settore protesico ed implantologico e nell'infezione da HIV.

In the last decades the problem of professional responsibility of the doctors went through deep conceptual re-examination. Some criteria, both general and more technically legal, are presented in order to correctly evaluate the professional liability. Then some specific aspects of the object are examined, such as the damaging of the inferior alveolar nerve after dental extraction, the problems concerning dental prosthetics and implants as well as the questions about HIV infection, acquired by patients or collaborators of the dentist, in his office.

[Medico-social considerations on a hospital case-load of accidental injuries in the elderly]. / Considerazioni medico-sociali su una casistica ospedaliera di lesività accidentale nell'anziano.

The files of the Casualty Ward in a Florentine hospital for 1934-36, 1955-57 and 1976-78 were examined and 5030 cases of accidental injuries in the elderly were extracted for analysis. The subjects were grouped according to age, type and locality of the accident and morphology of the clinical picture. The results obtained from statistical analysis of the data demonstrate an increased percentage of accidents in the home, at work and in the street. Road accidents, the incidence of which varied in the different periods considered, were excluded. The outstanding feature is the notable increase in accidents of every type in the home, an environment traditionally considered safe or at least protected. Some medicolegal remarks on these results are presented with the aim of promoting a greater knowledge of the epidemiology of this phenomen as is essential if preventive measures are to be taken.