What Has Changed in the Dental Prosthesis Procedures in Primary Health Care In Brazil?
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Mauro Henrique Nogueira Guimarães de Abreu1, Amanda de Lima Franca Neumann Morato1, Angélica Maria Cupertino Lopes Marinho1
1Department of Community and Preventive Dentistry, School of Dentistry, UFMG - Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil.
Abstract:
The study aimed to identify the changes in the provision of dental prosthetics procedures in the Brazilian primary care. Secondary data from the Brazilian "National Programme for Improving Access and Quality of Primary Care" was assessed and three similar questions related to dental prostheses execution that were answered by the same 9,698 oral health teams, in 2011/2012 and 2013/2014, were compared. There was a 4.3% increase in the number of teams that identified individuals with prosthetic needs; a 0.8% increase in the number of teams that performed impression for prosthetic purposes; and the number of teams that reported performing dental prostheses consultations increased by 0.6%. Overall, there was a small modification in the number of teams that provided dental prosthesis procedures in Brazil.
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