Ações de saúde bucal na gestação: possibilidades e dificuldades

Abstract

This review of the literature discusses the possibilities and difficulties of conducting oral health actions in pregnancy. Considers pregnancy a timely opportunity to promote oral health, being a period in which the woman is likely to incorporate new habits and attitudes conducive to health. It is the right of pregnant women receive dental care from pregnancy through actions to promote health and individual care. The educational and preventive actions are essential for the mother to take care of your oral health and introduce healthy habits from the beginning of a child's life. The Pre-Natal is an ideal place to work to promote oral health for pregnant women and ensuring access to dental treatment. Fears and beliefs without scientific foundation, and even the uncertainty of the professionals when it comes to dental care for pregnant women, limit the realization of the actions of oral health during pregnancy. Such actions should be developed linked to prenatal care and through an interdisciplinary approach. Thus a woman may become aware of the importance of dental care during pregnancy, overcoming fears and taboos about dental care, and act as a multiplier of information and preventive oral health promotion.