Dental care in emergency units: characterization of demand

Abstract

We have made a quantitative prospective study from a cross-section of the population to investigate the profile and characteristics of the demand for dentistry users treated at the Emergency Units in the city of Sorocaba/SP. The analysis happened with an interview of 270 users in the period from 08 January to 21 February, 2013. The dentists who were acting with users in the period relating to interviews were also interviewed. The user’s profile of this service was predominantly female (61.5% of the cases) and the age group that’s to odd out was between 20-44 years old (179 cases). The complaint of pain was predominant, and may or may not be associated with another complaint. The service of emergency care at the UPH showed 95.2% of interventions in the studied cases.