Cirurgiões dentistas do serviço público de Montes Claros frente a lesões brancas em mucosa bucal

Abstract

The aim of this study was to describe the dentists’ social-demographic features workers at units Primary Health Care of the public service of Montes Claros, Minas Gerais, as well as, to verify aspects of the conduct them in front of oral white lesions in mucosa and to determine the workplace conditions for perform stomatological investigation proceedings. It is a transverse study, descriptive and analytical accomplished in 2008 with 80 dentists. It’s applied a solemnity-applicable questionnaire, previously validated. The statistical analysis were accomplished using the program SPSS considering p ≤ 0.05. The discussion of the results was based on the absolute and relative proportions and in the association indexes among the variables, made calculations through the t-student (for the continuous variables), chisquare (for the categorical variables) and Likelihood ratio as alternative test for the cases where Chi-square is not indicated. The project was approved (916/2007) by the Committee for Ethics in Research of the State University of Montes Claros (Unimontes). Among the outcome, 57.5% of participants were females. Only 22.5% of participants had ever performed biopsy at theirs workplaces, the most of them by Family Health workers (p ≤ 0.05). The majority of the participants (65.0%) has been considering like limited-appeal for perform biopsy in workplace. It was concluded that majority of the participants were females, corroborating with feminization tendency found in the specialized literature. In according to scientific research, the biopsy is not usually performed by dentists. Same having a Center of Dental Specialty in the municipal district, most of participants directs the user to Unimontes’ stomatological clinic.