Abordagem odontológica em mulheres vítimas de violência doméstica: uma revisão de literatura

Abstract

Violence against women has serious impacts on the quality of life of these patients, due to physical injuries, besides the psychic and social repercussions. With the purpose of repressing these cases and acting on the violence practiced against the woman that arises the Maria da Penha Law (Law 11.340 / 06). A literature review was conducted to evaluate the knowledge and positioning of dental surgeons in these cases and to analyze how the dental class has behaved in the face of domestic violence in women. It was observed that the CD does indeed act in front of these events, needing to seek more knowledge about the legal issues of the exercise of its profession going beyond the code of odontological ethics, since there are deeper spheres in the Brazilian justice that regulate the actions of the dental surgeons in these cases. The subject covered in this study still presents a lack of data, further research on the subject is required. However, despite the lack of some information and observed that the available literature promotes a good initial foundation on which professional needs to know, although there is disinterest on the part of the category.