Analysis of dental education

Abstract

The aim of this article was to evaluate the teaching of dentistry in Brazil, regarding its administrative category of theirs educational institutions, besides the evaluation in Provão and ENADE, to improve the direction of the profession´s understanding, guiding the professional performance. To achieve those goals, data was collected from Federal Council of Dentistry, of the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics, and of National Institute of Educational Study and Searches Anísio Teixeira. The majority (71%) of the education institutes in Brazil have private character, the distribution of the administrative category of the public institutions of education are 50% Federal, 35% State and, only 15% Municipal; It was concluded that, the majority of the institutions of education are concentrated in the southeast region of Brazil, with 49,47%, followed by south (16,49%) and northeast region (16,49%). There were significant difference in all years evaluated, except in 1998 and 1999, between the types of Higher institutions of education; a statistically difference to the public institutions was found between the years of 2004 and 2007.