RESUMO
In the last three years, the Spanish juridical ordinance has regulated (mostly the radiologic protection area) the essential quality that every radiodiagnostic and dentistry unit should comply with. This quality, as in every service, rests on the competence of the professional's who perform it. This means that in advanced countries much time and effort is dedicated to forming these people and therefore the academic charge for teaching dentistry radiology in Venezuela results 15 times higher than what is dedicated in our environment. Also, the supply of graduates or specialized radiologists is very poor; for example, it does not exist in Barcelona while in Merida the radiology service staff has 4 licentiates exclusively dedicated to oral radiology assistance and teaching (apart from two other people who work as technicians). This wealth influences positively in the quality of the service. Among other things, it allows the readjustment of the incoming petitions and also to justify them better and makes possible that all the explorations go out with the corresponding judgment. The academic quality in this discipline is also high due to the fact that it is a university teaching service. Our goal, through this work, is to show the situation of the problem comparing 2 different university services of oral radiology and reveal the lacks found with its solutions.