Principais temas abordados em congressos brasileiros nos últimos 5 anos

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: This study analyzed the prevalence of lectures involving the topic "esthetic" in the scientific program of three important international dental conferences held in Brazil and the gender distribution of lecturers. METHOD: It was recorded the titles and lecturers' names of the lectures presented at international conferences (CIOBA, CIOGO, and CIOSP) held in Brazil in the last five years (from 2016 to 2020). After collecting, the data were classified in an Excel spreadsheet according to the specialties recognized by the Federal Council of Dentistry (CFO) regarding their topic involved or not "Esthetic." Three evaluators and discrepancies individually performed the classification were discussed until obtaining consensus. Furthermore, the lecturers' names were used to classify them as 'male,' 'female,' or 'both.' For more than one lecturer, the gender was classified as "both" only when the proportion was 1:1. For different proportions, the gender of the majority defined the classification. Data were tabulated, and descriptive statistical analyses were performed. Chi-square tests analyzed possible associations between the prevalence of topic "esthetic" and conferences or the lecturers` gender. RESULTS: There was no significant increase in lectures with titles related to esthetics between 2016 to 2018. Unlikely, a reduction was observed in the CIOBA (p = 0.046). There was a higher prevalence of male lecturers than females, regardless of the specialty. In titles involving esthetic, there was a significant increase in the proportion of men within the years (p < 0.001). Among the words in the titles, the most recurrent was "Esthetic," with 212 appearances. Words that refer to health issues such as "caries" (20), "disease" (15), "periodontitis" (7), and "bruxism" (7) were barely observed. CONCLUSION: There was no increase in topics related to 'Esthetic' between 2016 and 2020. A predominance of male lecturers was observed even for specialties with a high rate of female subscribers.