THE ROLE OF DENTISTRY IN THE HOSPITAL ENVIRONMENT: THE ORAL MICROBIOTA CONTROL AS SECONDARY INFECTIONS PREVENTION

• Autor(a) principal: Silva, Isabelle do Vale Dantas da
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Outros Autores: Nascimento, Marvin do, Borba, Clara Rosalba, Lourenço, Talita Gomes Baeta, Schroeder, Marcos Hahlbohm D’Oliveira
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Científica do CRO-RJ (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://cro-rj.org.br/revcientifica/index.php/revista/article/view/196
• topic: Hospital dental service; intensive care units; ventilation-associated pneumonia; hospital interdisciplinarity; buccal prosthesis.; Odontologia Hospitalar; Unidade de Terapia Intensiva; Pneumonia Associada a Ventilação; Interdisciplinaridade Hospitalar; Prótese Bucal

Objective: The purpose of this review is to highlight the oral health care importance on patients in the hospital Intensive Care Unit. Sources of data: The review was performed within articles published in English and Portuguese in the past 11 years, and the search was performed on the following platforms: GoogleScholar, PubMed (MEDLINE), Scielo, and Bireme (LILACS). Synthesis of data: When it comes to the hospital environment, especially intensive care units, the lack of dental care could compromise the well evolution of the hospitalized patient. The gap between what would be best proposed to the patient and what, indeed, is done by the current professionals in the intensive care units, highlights the necessity to study this subject more carefully so that there is a resumption of concepts about the expected management pattern, as well as how the multiprofessionalism develops in practice. If the structure cracks in any level, it’s often seen the rise of diseases commonly associated with intensive care, such as ventilator-associated pneumonia. The importance of a dentist in the intensive care units could avoid these diseases or, at least, reduce them. Conclusion: From this same perspective, the presence of a dentist working in an integrated way with physicians, nurses, and nursing technicians is valuable, especially concerning oral hygiene for patientsusing a dental prosthesis.