Impacto do atendimento odontológico na saúde bucal de crianças beneficiadas pelo Programa Bolsa Família Belo Horizonte MG

Abstract

To plan and direct health actions is necessary to know the reality, dynamics and risks in which the population is inserted. The survey of oral health necessity may subsidize the planning of individual and collective actions. The objective of this project was to verify the oral health conditions of children, benefited by a brazilian government scholarship program called Programa Bolsa Família (PBF), before dental treatment and three years after its conclusion. This project was carried out at the Health Center Dom Orione that chose as a form of access to the dental service, active search with the carrying out of a survey of the necessities of children benefited by the PBF. It was a quantitative longitudinal study that surveyed the dental treatment necessity, in portuguese, índice de necessidade de tratamento odontológico (INTO) of the same group of children in the years of 2006 and 2009, before and after dental treatment. The clinical treatment carried out, established as a standard conduct, the strategy of oral disease control by means of the nontraumatic restoring treatment, in portuguese, tratamento restaurador atraumático (ART). 70 children between the ages of 3 and 15, benefited by the PBF, participated in the study. The data analysis, three years after the intervention, showed a positive result, with an increase of code 0 to 50%, of code 1 to 39%, a reduction of code 2 to 10% and of code 3 to 1%. In 2009, it was observed a larger number of cavity lesions in patients that presented an unsatisfactory oral hygiene. It was noticed an improvement in the condition of children benefited by the PBF, meeting the equity principal. As an intervention proposal, besides the continuation of this line of work with the children benefited by the PBF, it was elected still, another group of social vulnerability, the patients of the micro area of elevated risk that belongs to the area surrounding the Health Center Dom Orione.