Abstract
The Practice of Hospital Dentistry in a Reference Hospital in Brazil
Highlights
Dental care at the hospital setting started to become a reality among some Brazilian institutions and universities
There was an association between regular dental supportive care and the diagnosis of oral complications due chemotherapy treatment (p
Our results support that the presence of dentist in the hospital environment brings benefits to the inpatients, improving the diagnostic and treatment of oral complications related to chemotherapy during hospital stay, and patient’s general condition, preventing infections and systemic complications
Summary
Dental care at the hospital setting started to become a reality among some Brazilian institutions and universities. In 2013, the project No 2776/08 of the Chamber of Deputies was approved in the Legislative House which establishes the presence of the dentist in Intensive Care Units (ICU), both in the public and private hospitals [2]. In 2019, the project was approved by the Senate; it was rejected by presidential sanction, and is still in discussion. Another project from 2015, No 866/2015 [3], is still in process for approval in the Chamber of Deputies, which provides the installation of a sector for dental services in public hospitals. The most recent project from 2019 No 883/2019 [4], that is still in process in the Chamber of Deputies, preconize the presence of dental professionals in ICUs in addition to hospital units where the patients stays for a long period of time
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