With the declaration of the new Coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) by the World Health Organization (WHO), onMarch 11, 2020, the escalation by research on possible strategies for its confrontation has reached a new level. The objective of this study was to evaluate the coverage of health insurance companies in relation to COVID-19 tests determined by the National Supplementary Health Agency (ANS) and to analyze th...
The aim of this study was to evaluate the students of a public dental school located in Brazil, regarding anxiety and depression, relating the scores of each disorder with the students' personal, academic, and socioeconomic characteristics. This is a cross-sectional study in which 423 dental students participated. Three assessment instruments were submitted to be completed, namely the Beck Anxiety Inventory (BA...
The treatment of malocclusions in a public health system requires the collection of data on the orthodontic needs of a given population. Thus, different recording methods have been developed to classify occlusion problems. The objective in this study was to investigate the prevalence of malocclusions and the normative need for orthodontic treatment in 12-year-olds. This is a cross-sectional epidemiological stud...
This study sought to investigate the extent to which health information has been made available to the population and the degree of functionality of the sites regarding access to the official websites of the municipalities that host the Regional Health Departments (DRS) of the State of São Paulo. To verify which sociodemographic, economic and health characteristics contribute to explain the functionality of mun...
The present study aimed to verify the influence of breastfeeding on children's oral and systemic health, verifying children's hospitalization, use, indication and type of antibiotics used. This is a cross-sectional longitudinal study with a sample of 42 children at 30 months of age. The logistic regression test was used at a significance level of 5% for statistical analysis. Among the children, 64.28% had alrea...
The objective was to verify the proportion of dentists in relation to the Angolan population, to undergraduate and graduate courses in dentistry, and to analyze the pedagogical projects of the existing courses. This is a descriptive, exploratory and documentary study that analyzed data on the population and the number of dentists in Angola, obtained through information from the National Statistics Institute and...
The objective of this study was to verify the prevalence and severity of dental caries in 12-year-olds from a municipality that regularly performs fluoridation of public water supply, since 1972, comparing oral health conditions among young people born and unborn at the site. This is a case-control study, carried out on 164 12-year-old schoolchildren enrolled in public schools in a municipality that continuousl...
Medical and dental health plans present a significant expansion in Brazil, so it becomes necessary to analyze the characteristics of this type of service provision, as part of a health care model. The objective of this study was to carry out a descriptive analysis of the medical and dental health plan operators in Brazil and the characteristics of their beneficiaries in the period from 2009 to 2019.This is a re...
This study aimed to analyze the dentistry students’ knowledge regarding drug prescription. It is a cross-sectional and quantitative study performed with last-semester dentistry students in a public higher education institution. The students received a blank sheet with the word "Prescription" in the header to prescribe a drug as they deemed pertinent. The researchers developed an instrument to analyze these pres...
Hepatitis B is a severe public health problem. The main world health centers have discussed it due to its pandemic proportion, high pathogenicity and infectivity. This study aimed to determine the immunization profile of dental surgeons - against hepatitis B virus (HBV) in the Public Health System (PHS) through the detection of anti-HBsAg antibodies by immunochromatography and associations with dental surgeons’...