Álbum seriado como ferramenta de prevenção e promoção da saúde bucal infantil

Abstract

Promoting oral health is crucial for encouraging healthy habits from the perspective of quality of life. In this sense, practices aimed at preventing tooth decay in childhood, which is one of the main oral diseases, need to be encouraged with the monitoring of the child's family and the care of health services. Children tend to imitate their family members in their oral and behavioral hygiene habits at home, which is why their guardians must be instructed by health professionals in order to avoid childhood oral diseases. Given the lack of physical material on children's oral health in the basic health unit, this work aims to create a tool to equip health professionals in guiding those responsible for children's oral health care in the age group of 0 to 6 years. A qualitative methodological study was carried out in two phases. The first was the integrative literature review according to Whittemore and Knafl, which after combining the descriptors located 495 works, and after applying the inclusion and exclusion criteria, 21 studies were added to the review, producing content for the Technical-Technological Product (PTT) , the prototype of a serial album, which has 30 pages and addresses topics such as the importance of breastfeeding and baby teeth, baby's oral health, dental chronology, consequences of harmful habits, child hygiene techniques and parental motivation. This master's degree work is the result of the stricto sensu postgraduate program Professional Master's in Family Health (PROFSAÚDE)