Os desafios da saúde bucal no Brasil: após a Política Nacional de Saúde Bucal

Abstract

Oral health in Brazil has been gaining increasing repercussions for adequate health promotion with regard to collective health, and in this way new actions aimed at promoting health can be created in order to ensure access to quality oral health. population. Thus, the present work aims to bring a review of the existing literature, based on technical documents and epidemiological data, to gather data on oral health in Brazil, its challenges and advances after the implementation of the guidelines of the National Policy on Oral Health. In this text, the population's access and coverage to dental services within the basic health unit, the needs that this population presents, the reality of fluoridation in Brazil and in oral health, as well as oral health conditions were also evaluated of the Brazilian population. The results included works focusing on collective oral health, official documents from the ministry of health, and epidemiological surveys, as well as available information systems from the ministry of health, and official documents from the world health organization. Studying such aspects is extremely important, since this way we can base new actions and measures in order to change the social context in which this population is included, fostering actions already in place and subsidizing data for the solution of problems that may arise and that can be tackled, changing the curative view of many professionals to the view of promoting health and quality of life.