Levantamento de necessidades em saúde bucal e a reorganização da atenção no Centro de Saúde Santa Mônica, Venda Nova, Belo Horizonte/MG

Abstract

The present work aimed to investigate de needs in the field of oral health of a restrained population of one of the professional teams that works in the Health Center of Santa Mônica (Centro de Saúde Santa Mônica) with the intent to organize the service and enhance the access to the oral health services. In order to do that, 396 chosen service users were invited to an examination according to te visit routine of the ACS. All components were classified and codified according to the criteria of the Establishment of the Needs in oral Health Formulary of the SMS/PBH. Of those 48% presented themselves to the examination. Of those, 47% showed no need for an oral treatment, 34% presented at least 03 elements of evident cavities (active cavity lesion) indicating a low level of odontological treatment need. The codes 2 and 3 with evident cavity lesions in more than 3 and in more than 8 teeth respectively, in need of odontological treatment or extraction were encountered in 10% of the participants, showing the increase in the occurrence of dental cavitieslesions. It was verified that 69% of the participants have never used the oral health service, this being an important data in the identification of strategies to enhance the access to the oral helth services offered by the Health Center of Santa Monica.