A inserção do cirurgião-dentista na Atenção Primária à Saúde do município de Piraí: desafios, potencialidades e percepções de novas práticas

Abstract

Pirai is a municipality in the state of Rio de Janeiro with an estimated population by the census of 2010 the IBGE of 26,309 inhabitants. The Health Care this population's main gateway to the Family Health Strategy, with coverage extension activities and services to 100% of its population. In 2002 there was the introduction of oral health in the Family Health Program (PSF). Today the city has a team of oral health for each of the 13 teams. This strategy enabled the expansion of access and good performance of epidemiological indicators of oral health in the municipality. The organization of the local health system is structured having as axis primary care. Besides covering no great investment in the quality of primary care, expanding teams and investing in continuing education. This study sought to reflect on the universe and the process of working with dentists who work in the Family Health Strategy in the municipality. Examined how this work can be seen working in primary care and how it is incorporating the notion of completeness in their practices. The methodology of focus groups to promote the lines and the construction of meaning by the dentists was applied of Pirai. It was observed that the hegemony of biomedical rationality in the formation and construction practices still produces strong influence in how dentists direct their speeches about the work in the PSF. Centrality in facing the curative oral disease, the difficulty of integrating the teams and the valuation of a specialized practice focused on the private market was perceived. Detachment of completeness can be identified as they approach their practices. This distance was found, eg, in the absence of talk about the bond, hosting and integration of prevention and health promotion in their work processes. There is a feeling of worthlessness sociocultural and professional regarding the role of the dentist as a generalist and as a worker in the SUS. This professional integration is still understood as a necessity imposed by the labor market and not as an ideological political project involving a new knowledge and a new practice that qualifies career.