Proposta de protocolo para o atendimento odontológico do paciente hipertenso e diabético na Atenção Básica

Abstract

Brazil is going through a demographic transition. Advances in technology and health standards improvements led to a life expectancy increased and consequent population getting old. Together to this condition, it may arise losses of functional capacity and onset of diseases such as diabetes mellitus and hypertension. The great demand of these users in primary care and the importance of controlling disturbances require methods to encourage the achievement of knowledge, appropriate and effective care on the part of dentists and the Family Health Team. The aim of this study was to develop a protocol for dental care to patients with hypertension and diabetes mellitus in primary care, suggesting a reorientation of dental procedures, indicating the importance of multidisciplinary care for the prevention, control and treatment of its complications. In order to support the protocol development, a literature review was performed in the national literature on the banks of data of the Virtual Health Library. It was performed to identify existing evidence on development of protocols as one of the ways to organize care, and then support its practical application. Using the proposed protocol is expected to greatly reduce failures in implementing the procedures, provide better use of them, including time as well as enable a clinical practice more safely in attendance. The literature emphasizes the importance of the protocol as a guideline for the provision of skilled care and enable the creation of evaluative parameters of given shares and, consequently, of the results.