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NOGUEIRA, Jorge Sá Elias et al. Children's self-medication attended at an Amazon Dental Specialist Center. Rev. Assoc. Paul. Cir. Dent. [online]. 2015, vol.69, n.4, pp. 369-375. ISSN 0004-5276.

This paper aims to evaluate and characterize some aspects of patients self-medication. The study was conducted at children's dental emergency sector in a center of medical and dental specialties. A randomized questionnaire was applied for parents or guardians of children aged 2 to 9 years who sought dental care in the period between October and November 2012. Although the parents/guardians claim that prescription should be unchanged and nontransferable (73.2%; p <0.05), most of the surveyed people (67.2%) are in favor of self-medication. The reuse of old prescription was the most used way to practice it (27.9%). There was consistent association between the type of drug used with emergency dental problems such as use of analgesics in case of pain (65.3%; p <0.05), antipyretic for fever (67.0%; p <0, 05) and anti-inflammatory in cases of edema (57.6%; p <0.05) and the women practice self-medication more often. The study showed that self-medication is exercised largely by service users, which may lead to the use of inadequate doses or resistance to antibiotics by patients.

Palavras-chave : self medication; pediatric dentistry; prevalence; random allocation.