Abstract

TETZNER, Enzo; NASCIMENTO, Susy; CARVALHO, Raquel  and  TONINI, Karina. Dentistry in the prison system. RFO UPF [online]. 2012, vol.17, n.3, pp. 360-364. ISSN 1413-4012.

Introduction: The population of the prison system is deprived of freedom and not their human rights, which includes the right to health. By the year 2003, there was not a plan regulating this right when the National Health Plan for the Prison System was implemented. However, the peculiar characteristics of this part of the population require trained human resources to work with the social profile and the diseases commonly found in prisons. Oral health is one of the components of the Plan and it affirms the importance of promoting health through not only oral rehabilitation, but mainly through the training of inmates to oral health self-care. Objective: Through a literature review, the study aims to assess the social environment of the prison system and its correlation with oral and systemic health of inmates, and to assess the conformity of the National Health Plan for the Prison System to the needs of the reality of the prison system. Final considerations: The discussion of the present study allows to state that the unsanitary conditions of confinement in prison are strongly associated with diseases commonly found, and that the National Health Plan for the Prison System provides proper guidelines, and one of them - oral health, is essential for health promotion of inmates.

Keywords : Oral health.; Unified Health System.; Criminal law..