Atenção primária em saúde bucal para portadores de deficiência mental

Abstract

A great number of carrying persons with mental deficiency in Brazil exists who still live in precarious conditions of buccal health. The politics of health had reoriented the assistencial model, however still it has a long way to cover as for the buccal health of these patients. The buccal health attendance to the carriers of mental deficiency it must be in the basic attention. Prioritizing, without damage of the to cure actions, the actions directed toward the prevention and promotion of the health. Being the caries and the prevalent illnesses of the soft part of the mouth in this population due to the difficulties or lack of hygienic cleaning, it must be given to emphasis the actions of supervised to brush and education in buccal health. In this study one searched to know the situation of the buccal health for deficient mental in the primary attention through a revision narrative of literature. One expects to contribute for the implantation of educative and preventive programs in the basic units of health.