"A contribuição da odontologia do trabalho no programa de saúde ocupacional: verificando as condições de saúde bucal de trabalhadores de uma agroindústria do sul do Brasil" / The contribution of odontology at work for the occupational health program : verifying the buccal health condition of a Brazilian southern agroindustry

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2006

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Men?s historical evolution at work shows, through the provided work conditions, that they interfere with quality of buccal health of the workers and may unchain alterations in the buccal mucosa, traumas and other problems. The present study has mainly highlighted a more detailed view of this evolution, work field and concept of the Worker Health Odontology and thus allowing the delimitation of this new work field for the Surgeon Dentist. The major focus was to verify the conditions of buccal health of the workers of a Brazilian southern Agroindustry, where the results of this epidemiological study by sample showed a profile where most of the examinees were women (58.82%), with education level (52.94%) and low income (R$ 385,06), average age (28) and who had been working for about 44.8 months. In relation to the level of buccal satisfaction, 51.63% classified it as regular, saying that their last visit to the dentist was 25.51 months before, claiming lack of time and opportunity, despite most of them said they had already worked with toothache (59.47%) and sometimes had to auto medicate so as to relieve the symptoms. The CPO-D found was 16.54, with 6.00 for the component of lost teeth, emphasizing great need for the use of prosthesis (57.52%) for the upper teeth and (64.05%) for the lower teeth. It has also been noticed that there is a great need for a better periodontal health care. 79.82% showed dental calculus, which may generate gingivitis (61.44%) and high prevalence of orthodontical dysfunctions (66.01%) with severe dental misalignment and may thus be one of the generators of a great number of individuals with painful sintomatology of TMA (31.42%). At last, through this epidemiological study, we can demonstrate the indispensable contribution of the Surgeon Dentist, specialized in Odontology at work, when they are inserted in the occupational health program of a company, where they can perform specific odontological exams, in order to generate data that may signal a more effective participation by the company, in search of buccal health and thus resulting in an improvement in life quality of the workers and consequently in a more effective productive development, minimizing the complication risks and work accidents.

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odontology-occupational health saúde bucal-qualidade de vida exames odontológicos ocupacionais epidemiological sudies occupational odontology exams odontologia do trabalho buccal healthquality of life levantamento epidemiológico odontology at work worker buccal health odontologia-saúde ocupacional saúde bucal do trabalhador

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