Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T13:53:16Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 EvelinCAR.pdf: 567410 bytes, checksum: b7c0c3cd63ebc68e2668e5484e00e43d (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007-08-31 / The inclusion of the dentist in the Family Health Program (FHP) teams designates a reorganization of the mouth health care in your country and establishes a new scenario in Brazilian odontology, through of a new way to organize the basic health care, creating conditions to consolidate in mouth health practice actions, in the level of the basic attention, the validation of Unique Health System (UHS) constitutional principles. The purpose of this research is to verify if the actuation of mouth health teams (MHT) dentists, in Natal city north sanitary district, is tuned with FHP goals.The target research population was composed by all dentists working in Basic Health Units (BHU) of Natal north sanitary district. Fifth-eight questionnaires were applied and using open and closed questions we look for identify the functional characteristics of each BHU, the dentists professional attributions on each BHU, as well as the clinical procedures that they execute. This research also searched to identify the factors that facilitate and/or difficult the inclusion process and the dentists activities performance on these BHUs, as well as the necessary actions to north sanitary district MHTs to fulfill the objectives proposed by FHP. The results point that the inclusion of mouth health actions in north sanitary district FHPs brought the incorporation of new values to the used practices. Whoever, its necessary a more frequent evaluation of the carried actions, in a way they can be adapted to the real community necessities, and, is fundamental the data accompaniment, for that these serve of base for planning and redirecting activities, in a way that we do not have only a reproduction of traditional practices, fragmented and isolated, but a truly substitution of the traditional practices and a new way of promoting health / A inclus?o do dentista nas equipes do Programa de Sa?de da Fam?lia (PSF) assinala uma reorganiza??o da aten??o ? sa?de bucal em nosso pa?s e estabelece um novo cen?rio na odontologia brasileira, atrav?s de uma nova forma de organizar a aten??o b?sica ? sa?de, criando condi??es para consolidar nas a??es da pr?tica em sa?de bucal, no n?vel da aten??o b?sica, a valida??o dos princ?pios constitucionais do SUS. O objetivo deste estudo ? verificar se a atua??o dos dentistas nas Equipes de Sa?de Bucal (ESB) do Distrito Sanit?rio Norte do Munic?pio de Natal RN, est? em sintonia com as diretrizes do PSF. A popula??o integrante da pesquisa foi composta por todos os dentistas lotados nas Unidades B?sicas de Sa?de (UBS) do Distrito Sanit?rio Norte de Natal-RN. Foram aplicados 58 question?rios e atrav?s de perguntas fechadas e abertas procurou-se identificar as caracter?sticas operacionais de funcionamento de cada UBS, as atribui??es profissionais dos dentistas em cada UBS e os procedimentos cl?nicos executados pelos mesmos. Esse instrumento procurou tamb?m identificar os fatores que facilitam e/ou dificultam o processo de inclus?o e o desempenho das atividades dos dentistas nessas UBS, bem como a??es necess?rias para que as ESB do Distrito Sanit?rio Norte cumpram os objetivos previstos pelo PSF. Os resultados encontrados apontam que a inclus?o das a??es de sa?de bucal no PSF do Distrito Sanit?rio Norte trouxe a incorpora??o de novos valores ?s pr?ticas exercidas. No entanto, ? preciso que haja uma avalia??o mais freq?ente das a??es realizadas, de modo que essas sejam adaptadas ?s reais necessidades da comunidade, e ainda, ? fundamental o acompanhamento dos dados, para que esses sirvam de base para o planejamento e redirecionamento das atividades afim de que n?o se tenha apenas uma reprodu??o de pr?ticas tradicionais, fragmentadas e isoladas, mas uma verdadeira substitui??o das pr?ticas tradicionais exercidas e um novo jeito de se fazer sa?de