A prescrição de medicamentos sujeitos a controle especial por cirurgiões – dentistas de acordo com a legislação brasileira

Abstract

The prescription of drugs subject to special control by dentists is allowed by law in Brazil for specific clinical cases during dental treatment. Alagoas currently has 3471 dentists with active enrollment and Maceió has 331 drugstores and manipulation pharmacies authorized by the National Health Surveillance Agency (ANVISA) and by VISA-Maceió to dispense such medications, which require prescription and prescription retention. Considering that pharmacology is strongly related to Dentistry, it is extremely important that dentists have full knowledge about the medications they prescribe in their clinical practice. The lack of health education actions for a better approach between pharmacists and dentists has a negative sociological, economic and health impact, becoming an obstacle to public health. The main objective of this work is to qualify health professionals from Maceió on the prescription of drugs subject to special control prescribed by dentists and dispensed by pharmacists in accordance with Brazilian legislation. It is expected, therefore, to eliminate communication barriers between health professionals from different categories and to encourage, from graduation, the training of health professionals with collaborative skills, in addition to strengthening teamwork focused on interprofessional collaboration. With that in mind, this intervention project created an educational booklet as a way of bringing pharmacists/dentists/patients closer together, aiming at protecting and recovering the health of those who use or need to use medicines subject to special control.