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- Title
Conhecimento do Médico Hospitalar Referente à Higiene e as Manifestações Bucais de Pacientes Internados.
- Authors
MATOS, Fernanda Zanol; PORTO, Alessandra Nogueira; CAPOROSSI, Leonardo Stethan; Vedove SEMENOFF, Tereza A. Delle; BORGES, Alvaro Henrique; SEGUNDO, Alex Semenoff
- Abstract
Objective: To evaluate hospital physicians' knowledge of the oral health of hospitalized patients by means of a questionnaire-based survey. Methods: Physicians working at hospitals were invited to fill out a semistructured questionnaire. One hundred physicians from six public and private hospitals were interviewed. The questionnaire contained 12 questions addressing the hospital care facilities, the physician's area of expertise, the hospital unit where he/she worked, the dentist's role in the hospital environment, and the physician's knowledge of oral health and diagnosis of oral manifestations. Results: Among the interviewed physicians, 52% stated that there was no control of oral infections in the hospital were they worked, including the intensive care unit (ICU); 45% reported never asking for a dentist in the health care team; approximately 93% and 84% did not know the correct manner for diagnosing periodontal disease and dental caries, respectively. Regarding the questions relative to oral hygiene, none of the physicians knew about oral hygiene instruments and techniques. Among the answers, it should be highlighted that most physicians believed that a hospital dental unit could reduce the hospitalization time of patients. Conclusion: Under the conditions of this study, it may be concluded that the hospital physicians do not know how to control oral biofilm in hospitalized patients, but they are aware of the issues involving infections of odontogenic origin.
- Publication
Pesquisa Brasileira em Odontopediatria e Clinica Integrada, 2013, Vol 13, Issue 3, p239
- ISSN
1519-0501
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.4034/PBOCI.2013.133.03