A importância da cooperação da família na saúde bucal da criança

Abstract

The present study aims to compose the action plan, focusing on the area of dentistry, as a partial requirement for the completion of the Specialization Course in Primary Health in the research universe was the Family Health Strategy - ESF, the it aimed at reversing the existing model, with predominant emergency care to the sick, mostly in large hospitals. The family becomes the object of attention, the environment in which they live, allowing an expanded understanding of the health / disease process. In Governador Valadares, there is a large number of children in municipal schools with a high number of cavities, many of these children belong to the area covered by the ESF Santa Rita II. During dental visits and home visits it was found the lack of cooperation of family members in the prevention of caries in children, and the importance of this act, which led to the elaboration of an action plan for addressing the problem. It was initially developed situational diagnosis of the coverage area of the ESF Santa Rita II, according to the module on Planning and Evaluation of Health Shares, Specialization Course in Primary Health Care and Family for a scientific review was performed literature using the following descriptors: "Family Health Strategy", "Dental Caries" and "Oral Health" in search engines like Scielo, Lilacs, and Virtual Library UFMG on the subject, as inclusion criteria were used articles published between 1989 and 2012.