Mauro Henrique Nogueira Guimarães de Abreu

Hepatites Virais na Prática Odontológica: Riscos e Prevenção

Resumen pt: Objetivo: Discuti r os aspectos epidemiologicos das hepati tes virais em profi ssionais de Odontologia, com enfase nas formas de transmissao e prevencao....

Fatores Associados à Automedicação em um Serviço Brasileiro de Emergência Odontológica

Resumen pt: Objetivo: investigar os fatores associados a automedicacao por pacientes atendidos em um servico de emergencias odontologicas em Belo Horizonte, MG, Bras...

Avaliação da Comprovação de Documentos Emitidos Durante o Atendimento Odontológico e do Arquivamento das Radiografias nos Prontuários de Saúde da Unimontes, Montes Claros, Brasil

ABSTRACTDESCRITORES DESCRIPTORS Radiografia dentaria; Documentacao; Avaliacao em saude. Dental radiograph; Documentation; Health evaluation. Assessment of the Corroboration of Documents Issued During the DentalTreatment and Radiograph Filing in the Health Records of the State University ofMontes Claros (Unimontes) in Montes Claros, MG, Brazil Objective: To evaluate the health records of the dental clinics ofthe State University of Montes Claros (Unimontes), in Montes Claros,MG, Brazil, concerning the presence of copies of documents issuedduring the clinical treatment as well as assess the the filing ofdental radiographs. Method: The data for this study were collected from all healthrecords of patients treated in the 1st semester 2005 of the disciplinesfrom the 4th to 9th periods of the Dental Course of Unimontes. Thedata were collected by a single duly trained examiner. Thedescriptive statistics was performed using the SPSS for Windowsv. 11.0 software. Results: Eight hundred and eighty one dental records werereviewed and 69.5% of them presented copies of documents.Among all the health records, 4% had written professionalinstructions, 41% had drug prescriptions, 22% had referraldocuments to other health professionals, 10% had healthcertificates and 37.5% had other documents, such as diet dailyrecord, user evaluation questionnaires, requests for lab tests,surgical planning and results of lab tests. Dental radiographs wereencountered in 72% of the health records and 69% of them werefiled in appropriate paper cards, 43% were not dated and 58%were unidentified.

Errors in Antibiotic Therapy: Study with Dentist's Prescriptions in a Large Brazilian City

Objective: To evaluate errors in dental prescriptions of antibiotics for therapeutic purpose. Material and Methods: This was a descriptive study using a random and calculated sample of 366 prescriptions (July1 2011 to June 30 2012), from a total of 31 105 dental prescriptions, was surveyed in an important drugstore chain in a large Brazilian city. Data was validated by double entry in Epi-data (EpiData Assoc, Odense M, Denmark) and then analysed in SPSS (version 19.0, Chicago, IL, USA). Statistical analyses included the calculation of proportions with a 95% confidence interval (CI). Results: We identified 272 prescriptions for therapeutic purpose. Prescription errors involved spelling of the antibiotic name, dose, dosing intervals and duration of treatment. A total of 116 prescriptions (42.6%; 95% CI 36.9%-48.6%) were considered to be totally correct with regard to the generic name, dose, dosing interval and duration of the antibiotic therapy. Most of the antibiotics prescribed by dentists showed errors related to the name, dose, intervals and duration of treatment. Conclusion: These errors may compromise the effectiveness of drug therapy, contribute to microbial resistance and increase the risk of adverse events and costs of treatment.

Modelos Explicativos da Cárie Dentária: Do Organicista ao Ecossistêmico

Resumen pt: Introducao: A carie dentaria e um problema de saude publica e sua historia, nos seus aspectos etiopatogenicos, tem sido objeto de muitas teorias. A expli...

Tratamento endodôntico radical na dentição decídua em portador de autismo infantil: relato de caso

The present article reports an odontologic attendance to a child, carrier of infant autism, emphasi- zing the viability of making a ra- dical endodontic treatment in the deciduous denture, using calcium hydroxide, in ambulatory level. Key words: infant autism, endodontic treatment, deciduous tooth, calcium hydroxide.