A saúde bucal no contexto da saúde da família: a promoção e a prevenção da cárie dentária

Abstract

For many decades, the dental service prevailed in the curative model and the inaccessibility of much of the population in the service, which culminated in a high prevalence of dental caries in the adult population. Thus, in the late 80's and early 90's, with the advent of the theory of Health Promotion, began to have a better understanding about the disease process of the individual and / or community. With the implementation of family health teams in order to reorient the current public health policy, there was improved access to health services and the opportunity to work from the perspective of health promotion among the population. Oral health in 2001 became part of the family health team to act in the same territory. This study aimed to: contextualize the dental service in the various moments of oral health policy in Brazil, describe the activities of oral health promotion carried out by family health teams and highlight the role of the Family Health Strategy in conditioning practices of health promotion. Was performed a literature review in journals registered in the BVS and manuals of the Ministry of Health on the subject of this study. The review showed us that there was a breakthrough in oral health with its incorporation into the family health team, especially in the use of actions to promote health. Despite advances in caries prevention, the review concluded that the activities of health promotion for the total population are incipient and the trend is still to work with the school children.