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Type:	Artigo de Periódico
Title:	Oral health in Brazil: what were the dental procedures performed in primary health care?
Authors:	Maria Tereza de Abreu Scalzo Mauro Henrique Nogueira Guimarães de Abreu Antonio Thomaz Gonzaga da Matta Machado Renata de Castro Martins
Abstract:	This cross-sectional study aims to describe the primary dental care procedures performed by Oral Health Teams (OHTs), adhering to the third cycle of the "National Program for Improving Access and Quality of Primary Care" (PMAQ-AB) in Brazil. A descriptive analysis was performed through 26 dental procedures, including spontaneous, preventive, restorative/prosthetic and surgical procedures, and actions of cancer monitoring. Each conducted procedure assigned a score to the OHT, the final score being the sum of the number of procedures performed by the OHTs. These scores were then compared among the geographic regions of the country. Most OHTs perform basic dental procedures, such as supragingival scaling, root planning and coronal polishing (98.1%), composite filling (99.0%), and permanent tooth extraction (98.6%). The frequency related to dental prosthesis and monitoring of oral cancer decreased. Only 12.9% of the OHTs carries out biopsies, 30.9% monitor patients undergoing biopsy, 15.1% carry out impression for prostheses, and 13.6% carry out prostheses’ installation. The scores reveal that OHT’s performed, on average, 19.45 (±3.16) dental procedures. The OHTs in the South, Southeast, and Northeast had a higher number of primary dental procedures, while the teams in the North and Midwest performed, on average, fewer procedures. The Brazilian regions with the highest dental need have the lowest number of dental procedures. It is necessary to increase the range of procedures offered by OHT and reduce regional inequalities, adapting to the needs of the population in order to achieve comprehensive oral health.
Subject:	Saúde bucal Brasil Atenção primária à saúde
language:	eng
metadata.dc.publisher.country:	Brasil
Publisher:	Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Publisher Initials:	UFMG
metadata.dc.publisher.department:	FAO - DEPARTAMENTO DE ODONTOLOGIA SOCIAL E PREVENTIVA MED - DEPARTAMENTO DE MEDICINA PREVENTIVA SOCIAL
Rights:	Acesso Aberto
metadata.dc.identifier.doi:	https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0263257
URI:	http://hdl.handle.net/1843/60973
Issue Date:	28-Jan-2022
metadata.dc.url.externa:	https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0263257
metadata.dc.relation.ispartof:	Plos One
Appears in Collections:	Artigo de Periódico

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