[Health education as a strategy for the promotion of oral health in the pregnancy period]. / Educação em saúde como estratégia de promoção de saúde bucal em gestantes.

This literature revision is intended to discuss the importance of health education as a strategy to oral health promotion in the pregnancy period. The most common mouth manifestations during pregnancy have been studied, and the conclusion is that, although pregnancy itself is not responsible for such manifestations in the mouth, e.g. dental decay and periodontal diseases, a dentistry follow-up during prenatal care is necessary, considering that hormonal alterations in pregnancy may aggravate the diseases contracted. The oral health promotion for pregnant women has been focused on mouth health education, considering it an important part of the Program of Attention to Women's Health, as recommended by the current National Politics' Mouth Health Policy. It is considered that, by means of mouth health education activities, implemented during prenatal care by a multiprofessional team, under an oral surgeon, women may be aware of the importance of their role in the attainment and maintenance of positive mouth health habits in family environment and act as an agent to multiply preventive and mouth-health-promotion information.

Educação em saúde como estratégia de promoção de saúde bucal em gestantes / Health education as a strategy for the promotion of oral health in the pregnancy period

O objetivo desta revisão da literatura é discutir a importância da educação em saúde como estratégia de promoção de saúde bucal no período gestacional. Foram estudadas as manifestações bucais mais comuns na gestação, concluindo-se que, embora a gestação por si só não seja responsável por tais manifestações como, por exemplo, a cárie dentária e a doença periodontal, faz-se necessário o acompanhamento odontológico no pré-natal, considerando-se que as alterações hormonais da gravidez poderão agravar as afecções já instaladas. Destacou-se na promoção de saúde bucal na gestante a educação em saúde bucal, considerando-a parte importante do Programa de Atenção à Saúde da Mulher, conforme recomendado pelas atuais Diretrizes da Política Nacional de Saúde Bucal. Considera-se que, por meio de ações de educação em saúde bucal, desenvolvidas no pré-natal por uma equipe multiprofissional, orientada por um cirurgião-dentista, a mulher poderá se conscientizar da importância de seu papel na aquisição e manutenção de hábitos positivos de saúde bucal no meio familiar e atuar como agente multiplicador de informações preventivas e de promoção de saúde bucal.

This literature revision is intended to discuss the importance of health education as a strategy to oral health promotion in the pregnancy period. The most common mouth manifestations during pregnancy have been studied, and the conclusion is that, although pregnancy itself is not responsible for such manifestations in the mouth, e.g. dental decay and periodontal diseases, a dentistry follow-up during prenatal care is necessary, considering that hormonal alterations in pregnancy may aggravate the diseases contracted. The oral health promotion for pregnant women has been focused on mouth health education, considering it an important part of the Program of Attention to Women's Health, as recommended by the current National Politics' Mouth Health Policy. It is considered that, by means of mouth health education activities, implemented during prenatal care by a multiprofessional team, under an oral surgeon, women may be aware of the importance of their role in the attainment and maintenance of positive mouth health habits in family environment and act as an agent to multiply preventive and mouth-health-promotion information.