THE ROLE OF DENTISTRY IN THE HOSPITAL ENVIRONMENT: THE ORAL MICROBIOTA CONTROL AS SECONDARY INFECTIONS PREVENTION

Authors

  • Isabelle do Vale Dantas da Silva Department of Prosthesis and Dental Materials, Dental School of the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro - UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
  • Marvin do Nascimento Department of Prosthesis and Dental Materials, Dental School of the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro - UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
  • Clara Rosalba Borba Department of Prosthesis and Dental Materials, Dental School of the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro - UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
  • Talita Gomes Baeta Lourenço Department of Medical Microbiology, Institute of Microbiology, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro – UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
  • Marcos Hahlbohm D’Oliveira Schroeder Department of Prosthesis and Dental Materials, Dental School of the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro - UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.29327/244963.6.2-4

Keywords:

Hospital dental service, intensive care units, ventilation-associated pneumonia, hospital interdisciplinarity, buccal prosthesis.

Abstract

Objective: The purpose of this review is to highlight the oral health care importance on patients in the hospital Intensive Care Unit. Sources of data: The review was performed within articles published in English and Portuguese in the past 11 years, and the search was performed on the following platforms: Google
Scholar, PubMed (MEDLINE), Scielo, and Bireme (LILACS). Synthesis of data: When it comes to the hospital environment, especially intensive care units, the lack of dental care could compromise the well evolution of the hospitalized patient. The gap between what would be best proposed to the patient and what, indeed, is done by the current professionals in the intensive care units, highlights the necessity to study this subject more carefully so that there is a resumption of concepts about the expected management pattern, as well as how the multiprofessionalism develops in practice. If the structure cracks in any level, it’s often seen the rise of diseases commonly associated with intensive care, such as ventilator-associated pneumonia. The importance of a dentist in the intensive care units could avoid these diseases or, at least, reduce them. Conclusion: From this same perspective, the presence of a dentist working in an integrated way with physicians, nurses, and nursing technicians is valuable, especially concerning oral hygiene for patients
using a dental prosthesis.

Author Biography

Isabelle do Vale Dantas da Silva, Department of Prosthesis and Dental Materials, Dental School of the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro - UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Contribuition: effective scientific and intellectual author of the study; data interpretation; preparation and draft of the manuscript.

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Published

2021-08-31

Issue

Vol. 6 No. 2: May-August 2021

Section

Review