Tratamento Restaurador Atraumático associado a medidas preventivas na saúde pública brasileira

Abstract

Oral health was totally devoted to curative treatment exclusively, eliminating any preventive measure in the collective, mainly for cultural reasons in the training of the dentist. According to the epidemiological caries in Brazil, this curative dentistry did not get success, because the prevalence of disease was increasing with age and in parts of the country's disadvantaged. Thus the Ministry of Health has provided incentives for the integration of oral health professionals in a context of family health known as PSF to try to reverse the endemic situation in the country. This new field for the dentist, in partnership with other health professionals has led to a process of changing concepts on anti-caries, making prevention programs focused on public health. The atraumatic restorative treatment atraumatic restorative and involves educational and preventive procedures. It is a simplified form of care, which involves removal of caries with instrumentation. Require the use of anesthesia and rubber dam, allowing its application in areas devoid of equipment odontológicos. Este study aims to review the literature on the use of Restorative Treatment associated with prevention programs as a strategy for controlling dental caries in Brazilian public health. The ART emerged as viable strategy for public health in the context of the PSF and needs to be disseminated to all professionals and managers as a measure that would strengthen the fight against this disease in different areas of the Brazilian community.