Oral health in children with cancer: knowledge and practices of caregivers
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Oral hygiene, Pediatric dentistry, OncologyAbstract
Objective: to assess the knowledge and practices of caregivers on oral health in children with cancer at Lar Amigos de Jesus - a charity institution in Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil. It also aims to identify the main oral complications from cancer treatment and the establishment of the physician-dentist relationship of these patients. Materials e method: the study population consisted of 15 caregivers responsible for accompanying the children welcomed by the institution. The data was collected using semi-structured interviews. The data was analyzed with the thematic content analysis technique. Results: all respondents were women and did not work. As for the relationship to the children, 14 of the respondents were their mothers and one was the child’s grandmother. After decomposing the corpus and coding the thematic units, the material collected was structured into the following categories: oral health care, oral complications from cancer treatment, physician-dentist relationship, general health, and oral health. Conclusion: maintaining the oral hygiene of children before, during, and after the antineoplastic treatment is essential to prevent the appearance of oral complications from the different therapies used to fight cancer. However, there is a lack of information on oral hygiene practices and difficulty understanding the importance of oral health to the maintenance of systemic health. The insertion of a dentist in the multidisciplinary team to follow-up pediatric cancer patients is evidenced, aiming to improve the children’s quality of life.
Oral hygiene. Pediatric dentistry. Oncology.
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