Acesso aos serviços odontologicos de saúde para pacientes especiais: revisão sistemática

Abstract

In Brazil, according to the IBGE (2010) 45606048 million people reported having at least one of the deficiencies (visual, auditory and motor according to their degree of severity, and also mental or intellectual), corresponding to 23, 9% of the Brazilian population. Thus, in 2003 the Ministry of Health launched the National Oral Health Policy – Brasil Sorridente, which brings together a series of actions to expand access to free dental treatment, through the Unified Health System (SUS). Objective: To evaluate access to dental health services for special patients through a systematic review of the literature. Methodology: For the development of this study a systematic review was carried out in the databases of the Biblioteca Virtual em Saúde and Pubmed. The following terms were used: Heatlh Services Accessibility, Dental Care for disabled and oral health, in Portuguese and English, and expanded to title, abstract and subject, filtered in the form of complete article available, without date or year limit, involving Brazil (health system in Brazil). Results: 32 articles were found, of which 1 were repeated, 4 were literature review, 1 case report, 21 did not correspond to the Brazilian health system, remaining 5 articles related to the topic. Conclusion: There is access to dental health services for special patients, but many users are unaware of these services, and both patients and professional dental surgeons point to a lack of adequate structure to receive them.