Prevenção de maloclusões na atenção básica : o papel do agente comunitário de saúde.

Abstract

It is known that dental occlusion is one of the main oral health problems of brazilian's population, so is extremily important to find ways to promote oral health in order to prevent future malocclusion problems. when it comes to preventing dental malocclusions, it is known that applicability is practical and easy, with low operating cost and without the need for orthodontic appliances. in this way, the present work aimed to perform a remote reasearch through the google forms platform whith health communitary agents from Santa Cruz do Sul, Rio Grande do Sul, in order to evaluate the knowledge about malocclusion prevention, and based on these results to develop an informative manual aiming to contribute with guidelines on oral health promotion and prevention of dental malocclusion during home visits. the reasearch's results were significant and decisive to create the prevention manual of malocclusion in the primary health care, concluding that, although the health communitary agents, from Santa Cruz do Sul, have a relationship based on trust whith their pacients and, besides that, they are well accepted in the community as well as their guidelines, more than a half of the respondents answered that they do not know how to promote oral health in order to prevent problems related to dental malocclusion. so, the apropriete cientific knowledge passed on to primary health care professionals and the use of the material created and directed to the health communitary agent will provide the correct performance of the professional in the community with a greater focus on oral health education to prevent the installation of problems related to dental occlusion.