Controle da cárie dentária em escolares de Onça de Pitangui - Minas Gerais: uma proposta de intervenção

Abstract

This paper aims at dental cavity disease as a problem of public health due to its prevalence, especially in children in their early age and school year, which is our main study focus. Through observation of the high demand of patients at school age seeking dental treatment, an idea of an action in order to promote the oral health of these schoolchildren has occurred to us. Thus, a proposal of an intervention so as to control cavity occurrence in schoolchildren was taken into action in the Municipality ofOnça de Pitangui, Minas Gerais, based on oral diseases control in school programsby reviewing the odontology literature. A research was made based on LILACS, SciELO and MEDLINE data base with the descriptors: school health, public health, dental cavity, fluorides and saccharine. A proposal of intervention was elaborated afterwards. After some actions took place, it was observed an improvement of theoral health of these schoolchildren and now the objective is to use these methods for an extended control involving all children and adolescents in the urban areas and furthered to rural areas of the municipality of Onça de Pitangui.