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Name:Dr. Yvo Vermylen
Degrees:DDS, Lic. Rechten
Country:Belgium
Academic Background:Buitengewoon gastdocent at the Catholic University of Leuven, teaching traumatology, legal aspects of dentistry, insurance law, liability, dental law, evaluation of dental damage
Present Functions:Legal advisor of the Flemish Society of dental experts (VVTE)
Board member of the Flemisch society of Health Law
Member of the Belgian DVI team
Fellow of the International College of dentists
Past Functions:Vice president of IOFOS (International Organisation of Forensic Odonto-Stomatology
Publications:*Vermylen,Y., Tormans, E., De Valck, E., Vanherle, G., "Gerechtelijke tandheelkunde", Acco, Leuven, 1980, 292p.

*Hill, I.R., Keiser-Nielsen, S., Vermylen, Y., Free, E., Tormans, E., De Valck, E., "Forensic odontology, it’s scope and history", Acco, 1984, 272p.

*Vermylen, Y., "Tandheelkunde, beroepsrecht en Praktijk", CED Samsom, 1985, Brussel

Belangrijkste artikels in tijdschriften

Vermylen,Y., "The use of the telecopier in the long distance transmission of dental information in mass disasters", 1980, Medicine, Science and the Law, 20:89-92.

Vermylen,Y., et al., "Forensische Odontologie", 1982, in "Handboek voor de tandheelkundige praktijk", Kluwer(ed.), C.8/1-20.

Vermylen,Y., "Deskundigenonderzoek : de tandarts als deskundige in strafzaken", 1985, Panopticon, 6:156-160.

Vermylen,Y., "Kindermishandeling en tandheelkunde", 1985, Tandheelkundige tijdingen, 128-145.

Vermylen,Y., "Behoort de prothese tot de integriteit van de persoon of is het een materieel object ?", 1984, Tandheelkundige tijdingen, 143-145.

Vermylen, Y., "De identifikatie van lijken (of : calamatis conscius 7bis), De Pol., 1989, afl.5, 25-41

Vermylen,Y., "Some legal aspects of mass disasters", The Journal of Forensic Odonto-stomatology, 1991, 62-75

Vermylen, Y., "De aansprakelijkheid van de tandarts bij het plaatsen van een prothese, T.Gez., 1996-97, 193-4, noot onder Antwerpen 5 april 1995

Vermylen, Y., "Bedenkingen bij tandschade", Medi-Ius, 1997, 2-15

Vermylen, Y., "Traumatisme – dommage – assurance : les implications juridiques", Rev.Belg.Mιd.Dent, 1998, 53, 9-28.

Lezingen op nationale en internationale congressen



1981 - International Association of Forensic Sciences (IAFS), Bergen, Norway : "The telecopier and the transmission of dental information in mass disaster"

1984 - IAFS - Oxford, England "Education in Forensic Odontology - an international review"

1985 - 7th World Congress on Medical Law, Gent, Belgium "Dental evidence and the role of the forensic dental expert in criminal cases"

1989 - International Congress of the European Association on Dental Education, Brussels, Belgium : "Disciplinary law and human rights"

1990 - IAFS - Adelaide, Australia : " Some legal aspects on mass disasters"

1991 - XI th meeting of the Nordic Society of forensic Sciences, Oulu, Finland " Dental traumata, the legal aspects : liability and insurability"

1991 – Fιdιration Internationale dentaire (FDI) – Milaan "The legal basis of forensic odontology"

1992 – First International Congress on Dental Law and ethics – Leuven "The obligation to be diligent and prudent versus the obligation to achieve a specified result "

Advertising and specialties in dentistry – panel discussion"

1993 – IAFS – Dusseldorf "Confidentiality and the forensic expert"

1994 – ERO committee of the FDI – Budapest " Role and structures of the dental associations and chambers in the different countries of Europe"

1994 – Icelandic dental association – Reykjavik : "Dental liability"

1994 en 1995 – The University of Malaya – Kuala Lumpur driedaagse cursus over : "Jurisprudence, jurisprevention and dental ethics" in het kader van de opleiding tot Master of public Health

1994 – International conference on forensic odontology – Kuala Lumpur "Mass disasters, legal aspects" and "Legal systems around the world – the importance of the chain of evidence"

1995 – Grimbergen – International meeting of VVTE, BAFO, IOFOS "Evidence and the dental expert"

1995 – University of Oslo – dental school – department of oral pathology : Visiting professor

1998 – International Congress on forensic odontology – Chennai, India - "Recent mass disasters in Belgium" en " Evidence in criminal law"

1998 – Symposium van de Vlaamse vereniging voor gezondheidsrecht "Een Orde van tandartsen – voor welk model gekozen ?"

1998 – London – 3th International congress on dental law and ethics : "Whistleblowing : the Belgian view"

1998 – Risk management in de tandheelkunde – lezing op viering 65 jaar Tandheelkunde, Gent

1998 – Informed consent : lezing aan het Limburgs Universitair centrum

1999 – AKFOS – Mainz : "Die behandelungszusage nach Aufklδrung. Die aktuellen Rechtsgrundlagen in Belgien und Franchreich"

2000 – Najaarscongres Verbond der Vlaamse Tandartsen, Leuven - "Solopraktijk of associatie"

2000 – European Iofos Millenium congress : "Liability of the forensic expert"

2000 – Nederlands Congres tandheelkunde : "Informed consent in Belgiλ"

2001 - Antwerpen : "Juridische en ethische problemen bij de onmiddelijke belasting van implantaten en praktijkvoering"

2003 - Athens - precongress course : Dental Jurisprudence

2003 – Omaha : 5th international congress on dental law and ethics : Publicity or information

2004 - Hafjell, Norway - Legal Evidence

2004 - Mainz, Germany - Jurisprudence, what's going on

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