Oral health policies in Brazil.
Since Oral Health policies in Brazil have been constructed according to circumstances and possibilities, they should be understood within a given context. The present analysis contextualizes several issues of the Brazilian Oral Health Policy, called "Smiling Brazil", and describes its present stage of development. Today it involves re-organizing basic oral health care by deploying Oral Health Teams within the Family Health strategy, setting up Centers of Dental Specialists within an Oral Health network as a secondary care measure, setting up Regional Laboratories of Dental Prosthesis and a more extensive fluoridation of the public water supply.
Ministry of Health, Brazil. gilberto.pucca@saude.gov.br
Gilberto Alfredo
GA
Pucca
José Felipe Riani
JF
Costa
Luciana de Deus
Lde D
Chagas
Rosa Maria
RM
Sivestre
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