Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T14:13:22Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 AldoAD.pdf: 191586 bytes, checksum: c16577cbf5c46903b3bf916fb427ec94 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008-04-25 / Dentistry, as a science and field of knowledge, has presented a substantial development in the last decades in the areas of research and education. The aim of this study was to evaluate the Brazilian scientific production in Dentistry, as from their methodological outlining, which characterizes the XXI Century. Five thousand two hundred and three study abstracts were evaluated, comprising works presented in the meetings of the Brazilian Society of Dentistry Research (SBPqO), during the period of 2001 to 2006. The main results identify that, as for the methodology used in the researches, there was a predominance of the studies of an individuate, interventionist and longitudinal nature; of the researches in the areas of Dentistry, Periodontology, Endodontics, Pedodontics and Collective Oral Health and experimental studies about clinical researches or with collective subjects. The inter and multidisciplinarity are pointed out in the outlining of this study, as the triad Education-Health-Research is discussed, so that they transcend in their fields of action, in the direction of the transdisciplinarity. It is concluded that, in the studied period, there was a reasonable and balanced production in Brazilian dental field / A Odontologia, como ci?ncia e campo do saber, tem apresentado um desenvolvimento substancial nas ?ltimas d?cadas na ?rea da pesquisa e educa??o. O objetivo deste estudo foi avaliar a produ??o cient?fica em Odontologia no Brasil, a partir de seus delineamentos metodol?gicos, que caracteriza o in?cio do s?culo XXI. Foram avaliados 5.203 resumos dos estudos apresentados nas reuni?es da Sociedade Brasileira de Pesquisa Odontol?gica (SBPqO) no per?odo de 2001 a 2006. Os principais resultados identificam que, quanto ? metodologia usada nas pesquisas, houve predom?nio dos estudos de natureza individuada, intervencional e longitudinal; das pesquisas das ?reas de Dent?stica, Periodontia, Endodontia, Odontopediatria e Sa?de Coletiva e dos estudos laboratoriais sobre as pesquisas cl?nicas ou com sujeitos coletivos. Tornam-se evidentes neste estudo a inter e a multidisciplinaridade no delineamento do estudo, por conta da tr?ade Educa??o-Sa?de-Pesquisa ser trabalhada a fim de que transcendam seus campos de a??o, rumo ? transdisciplinaridade. Conclui-se que, no per?odo estudado, houve equilibrada produ??o no campo odontol?gico brasileiro