Saúde bucal e atenção ao doente mental: usuários especiais

Abstract

Considering the marginal situation experienced through the history by the mentally disabled people, this study proposes to do through this literature review a discussion about the oral health attention given to this part of the population. The models of oral health have always been focused and organised according to the biological / curative concept and also by the life cycles (child, teenager and adult), over the approach models of "life condition". Since the psychiatric reform in the Unique Health System- Sistema Único de Saúde (SUS) the mentally disabled individual started to have his citizenship respected. Parallel, the oral health staff was inserted in the family health strategy. Because of that, there is a new scenario for this part of the population: welcoming, bonding and humanized access to the oral health services and actions. The oral health attention given to the mentally disabled people became organized, planned and worked through multiprofessional and interdisciplinary relations. These people started to be contemplated, therefore, by a new work process that visions the universalization, the equity and the integrity in public health.