Profile of users and attendances of Endodontics at CEO-UFRGS between 2016 and 2017

• Autor(a) principal: Ehlert, Valéria Rozales
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Outros Autores: Luisi, Simone Bonato
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por; eng
• Título da fonte: Revista da ABENO (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://revabeno.emnuvens.com.br/revabeno/article/view/760
• topic: Secondary Care. Endodontics. Specialties; Dental.; Atenção Secundária à Saúde. Especialidades Odontológicas. Endodontia.

The Dental Specialties Centers (CEO) are a strategy of the National Oral Health Policy to assure the secondary care in Dentistry, constituting referral units for the primary attention. This cross-sectional study analyzed the characteristics of users and attendances in the specialty of Endodontics of the CEO at Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul. A questionnaire was designed, based on the Oral Health Specialties Handout, besides questions that characterized the profile of users, and was applied to the trainees at the CEO at every completed endodontic treatment. The sample included 48 patients, obtained by convenience, in consecutive census sampling, with conclusion of 56 endodontic treatments during the period August 2016 to July 2017. The profile of users was predominantly females (62.50%), in the age range 31 to 50 years (41.67%) of White ethnicity 64.58%); the teeth with greatest treatment needs were the molars (67.86%); and most cases were in conditions compatible with those advocated by the handout. The treatments were completed in 2 or 3 sessions (66.67%), and the waiting time of users for attendance was shorter than 6 months (83.33%). The patients were indicated using a referral form (93.75%). The study revealed data that may contribute to the development of strategies to broaden the productivity by investments in new Technologies and equipment, aiming to reduce the number of sessions required for finalization of endodontic treatments, providing attendance to a larger number of patients and reducing the waiting time.