Manual de orientações gerais para atendimento de traumas dentais

Abstract

Dental trauma is defined as the result of thermal, chemical, or mechanical aggressions caused to teeth and their adjacent structures. These injuries can occur at any age, being common between 8 and 12 years old, affecting permanent dentition, with a higher incidence in boys. This work had as objective the construction of a material of institutional character, directed to dentists and undergraduates of Dentistry, containing the main conducts for the care of dental traumas. For the elaboration of this product, a literature review was carried out in the virtual health library (MEDLINE, LILACS, SCIELO, BBO) using the DECS: Dental Avulsion, Trauma-Dislocation, Dental Trauma, Application of Epidemiology and Brazil. In PubMed the MESH terms: Avulsion, Luxation, Tooth fracture, Epidemiology was used. As inclusion criteria, articles in English and Portuguese, published in the period from 2011 to 2021, of the literature review, case report, epidemiological survey and systematic review type were selected. Papers in other languages and prior to 2010 were discarded. The proposed technical manual disc aims to streamline and optimize the diagnosis and treatment of patients with dental trauma, and is aimed at any dental surgeon, regardless of their specialty and sphere of activity, or undergraduate in dentistry. After the construction of this material, a survey was carried out with 112 participants, for the validation, adjustments, and evaluation of the acceptance of the product in question. Regarding the results obtained, the predominant presence of females and the position of dental surgeons in the private sector was noted, most of the interviewed participants reported having treated more than one patient with dental trauma (61.3%) and that they would use the proposed disc (92.9%), 92% of the participants in this research said they had never seen any material similar to the disc, 86.6% found the disc very useful, 93.8% reported not having difficulty handling it, 92% stated that the disk has all the necessary information and 85.7% would recommend this product to other professionals. The results demonstrate that the instrument created was well accepted by the researched target audience, fulfilling its purpose of optimizing the diagnosis and treatment procedures for patients with dental trauma.