O papel da odontologia na atenção ao indivíduo com doenças mentais dentro da estratégia do PSF

Abstract

The national health system (SUS) has, as one of its principles, integrity in service to the user, within the broader concept of health. Through the strategy of the PSF, the health team has the opportunity to exercise this principle, by such means as the establishment of ties with family and humanization of care. Alongside the creation of SUS, was a Brazilian psychiatric reform movement, to press for the replacement of psychiatric hospitals and rehabilitation of the individual in family life and society.Dentistry, being part of the strategy of family health should also develop initiatives to care for patients with mental disorders, since diseases like periodontal disease are common in these patients, compromising the oral and general health of the individual as well as viability of their social integration.