Implementando práticas pedagógicas em saúde bucal no ensino fundamental

Abstract

This study was aimed to identify, to describe and to interpret the aspects under consideration during a teachers trainning process in buccal health, which were implemented in classroom practice by a group of primary teachers in a public school in Garanhuns-PE, Brazil. Interviews were conducted whith these teachers in order to identify their previous conceptions about buccal health, as well as the aspects considered by them as the most important in trainning process, which was supervised by a dentist. Some lessons given by these teachers were videotaped. Thus, the data collected were qualitative as well as quantitative. Among several contents in buccal health, these teachers emphasized dental caries, especially their prevention by means of adequate feeding, brushing and use of dental floss. These teachers also presented some conceptual failures, which indicated the necessity of transforming this trainning process in a continous education process, under the supervision of health and education specialists, in order to achieve a high standard in an educative work involving buccal health.