Abstract

SIRE GOMEZ, Alexis Francisco et al. Needs to improve the buccomaxillofacial emergences care in Stomatology services. Rev Cubana Estomatol [online]. 2010, vol.47, n.4, pp. 392-403. ISSN 1561-297X.

An exploratory, analytical and cross-sectional research was carried out in the Stomatology Faculty of the Medical Sciences University of Camagüey from January, 2009 to January, 2010. The objective of present paper was to determine the buccomaxillofacial emergences frequently cared at level of the primary health care, how the general stomatologists and integral general stomatologists self-evaluated their capability and performance to confront these complications, the major difficulties founded by the secondary care specialists and the organization ways of the more efficient professional overcoming to be used in keeping with results. We used a self-evaluation questionnaire, 84 stomatologists were polled declaring that the buccomaxillofacial emergences frequently cared were the dentoalveolar fractures and the exodontias complications. The theoretical self-evaluation achieved favorable results in all groups. The responses related to practical performance showed an increase in self-evaluations qualified as regular, mainly in that of exodontias complications and the odontogeny septic processes. The cases referred to secondary health care by exodontias complications, the odontogeny septic processes and buccomaxillofacial traumata showed the higher difficulties in management and initial treatment at level of Stomatology primary care. Due to its formative features, we determined that in training and in granting a diploma were present the modalities of professional overcoming more suitable to be used in keeping with the difficulties founded.

Keywords : Maxillofacial emergence; improvement in care.

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