Ansiolíticos na odontologia : uma visão atualizada.

Abstract

Dental treatment can be a great challenge to certain group of people, in the childhood or in the adult life, causing anxiety problems or making it worse in patients who already suffer from this disorder. The anxiety, considering itself, in dental offices can occur by past lived experiences or influenced by closed people, and if it’s not treated can make the patient postpone or even cancel the appointment already scheduled, resulting on a poor oral health. Objective: Investigating the prescription and the real use of anxiety medicines. Metodology: Referring to a cross-sectional, analytical and quantitative study, the searching instrument was a Google forms quiz. The research was answerd by 121 people, including dentists from the public service that belongs to the 28th health region in Rio Grande Do Sul State, dentist which are teachers on the Dentistry Course from Santa Cruz Do Sul Univesity (UNISC), dentists who have their private office on the same city and the students from the Dentistry Course on UNISC. The collected data were tabulated and inserted on a database through Excel program and consequently analyzed by SPSS software, 25th version, with the value p<0.05. Results: The dentists prescribe ‘’Diazepan” medicine previously the dental appointment, but this medicine is prescribed only to very anxious patients. Conclusion: It was observed the dentists have na updated vision about anxiolytics and only prescribe them on extremely necessary situations