Plano de intervenção para enfrentamento da cárie dentária em uma unidade básica de saúde de Januária/MG

Abstract

This work aimed to develop an intervention project to face the tooth decay on the scope of the Basic Health Unit (BHU) Father Afonso Muer in Januária (MG). A literature narrative review was performed to identify which factors predispose school the emergence of dental caries. Therefore, a search was conducted for articles published in the last ten years and indexed in the Scientific Electronic Library Online (ScIELO) and the Virtual Health Library (VHL). Were also used institutional websites and manuals of the Ministry of Health. Found 79 works that address the proposed topic. The decay in children is a very relevant issue as it affects this stratum of the population, socioeconomic disadvantages, in developed and developing countries. It is also considered a public health problem that affects disadvantaged communities in developing and industrialized countries, where malnutrition is a common factor and relevante. This work allowed it to be proposed an action plan to minimize the problem of dental caries in the ascribed area UBS acting to. The proposals are to change habits and lifestyles, promote healthy eating, proper brushing, increase the level of public information on the importance of oral health care, improve the structure of services, to reduce the number of cavities and deploy line of care in oral health assessing nutrition and overall health. The plan is comprehensive because the prevalence of caries is a multifactorial event. The problem of caries and its association with diet and oral hygiene is not new. Knowledge of the area of operation and the registered population, the team's involvement in establishing and implementing the action plan, diet changes and oral hygiene, health team training, supervised toothbrushing stock and fluoride topical application and the parent's approach, are actions that must be performed in order to reduce the incidence and prevalence of dental caries in children.