Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T15:30:50Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 LailsonSL.pdf: 806488 bytes, checksum: 9c6790615be4d8d2d3b2adaa92646828 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007-08-28 / The hospitalization is an event that can attack any person, independent of gender, race, social and economical condition. Last year, the prevalence of hospitalization was 8.1 for 100 inhabitants and the average time of hospitalization was 8.5 days for each patient one in Natal city. Therefore, an important point is whether the attention to the patients during the permanence in these health establishments incorporates the health integral model suggested by the principles proposed by the National Health System in Brazil (SUS), with actions of promotion and protection by different kinds of professionals, beside those called convalescence. Then, the aim of this study was to evaluate the patient s oral health conditions hosted in public hospitals of the Natal city, looking for to establish its relationship with several risk factors by two dimensions: the characteristics of the hospitalization and the patient s general and economical conditions. We accomplished a cross-sectional study with 205 patients distributed among the hospitals Onofre Lopes, Giselda Trigueiro and Monsenhor Walfredo Gurgel, looking for to know the socio-demographic characteristics, the food habits and of oral hygiene and the conditions of oral health, through the Visible Plaque Index and Gingival Bleeding Index. We observed that the conditions of the patient s oral health interned at public hospitals of reference of the municipal district of Natal is bad, existing accumulation of dental plaque and, consequently, a great number of patients with gingival bleeding. However, the time of hospitalization and its reason, the type of medicine used in this time and the toothbrush frequency were not configured as risk factors for this oral health condition / A hospitaliza??o ? um evento que pode atingir qualquer indiv?duo, independente de sexo, ra?a, condi??o social e econ?mica. Em 2006, no munic?pio de Natal, a preval?ncia de internamento foi de 8,1 internamentos para cada 100 habitantes e uma m?dia de perman?ncia no ambiente hospitalar de 8,5 dias para cada paciente. Diante disso, nos questionamos se os cuidados com a Sa?de Bucal dos pacientes durante a estadia nestes estabelecimentos de sa?de incorpora o modelo integral ? sa?de sugerido pelo reordenamento dos servi?os e a??es em sa?de proposto pelo SUS, existindo a??es multiprofissionais de promo??o e de prote??o da Sa?de, ao lado daquelas propriamente ditas de recupera??o. Assim, a proposta deste estudo foi a de avaliar a situa??o de higiene bucal a partir da quantidade de biofilme acumulado das superf?cies dent?rias e da quantidade de sangramento gengival de pacientes hospitalizados em hospitais p?blicos da cidade do Natal. Al?m disto, buscamos estabelecer a associa??o entre a situa??o de sa?de bucal com as caracter?sticas da interna??o e com as condi??es socioecon?micas do paciente. Para isto, realizamos um estudo epidemiol?gico do tipo transversal com 205 pacientes distribu?dos entre os hospitais Onofre Lopes, Giselda Trigueiro e Monsenhor Walfredo Gurgel, buscando conhecer as caracter?sticas s?cio-demogr?ficas, os h?bitos alimentares e de higiene bucal e as condi??es de sa?de bucal, atrav?s dos ?ndices de Placa Vis?vel (IPV) e de Sangramento Gengival (ISG). Observamos que, de uma maneira geral, as condi??es de sa?de bucal dos pacientes internados em hospitais p?blicos de refer?ncia do munic?pio de Natal s?o prec?rias, existindo grande ac?mulo de biofilme dent?rio (placa bacteriana) e, conseq?entemente, um grande n?mero de pacientes com sangramento gengival. Entretanto, o tempo de internamento, o motivo da hospitaliza??o, o tipo de medicamento utilizado e a freq??ncia de escova??o n?o se configuraram como fatores associados com a piora das condi??es de sa?de bucal, sendo necess?rios estudos mais adequados para o estudo desta rela??o