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OLIVEIRA, Juliana Santos; PRADO JUNIOR, Raimundo Rosendo; FERNANDES, Regina Fátima  e  MENDES, Regina Ferraz. Oral Health Promotion and Extension Project: new perspectives for patients with Special Needs. Rev. ABENO [online]. 2015, vol.15, n.1, pp. 63-69. ISSN 1679-5954.

This experience report is on the undergraduate extension projects and their importance for the consolidation of the concept changes in oral health care of patients with special needs. The extension project PROSBE (Pro-ject of Oral Health Promotion for Special Needs Patients) takes place at the Integrated Center for Special Education (CIES) and educates caregivers on the importance of the oral health promotion, through the practice of a multidisciplinary team. Educational actions can develop competences and stimulate those responsible for the patients and undergraduate students to create confidence and familiarity in the treatment of special needs patients. Projects of this nature favor the work between professionals and the double student/professor, propitiating researches and a social relationship of impact between the University and society. Furthermore, this study emphasizes the importance of the triad teaching-research-extension, based on which the Brazilian university system is currently working. University extension is an academic process of professional formation and generation of knowledge.

Palavras-chave : Disabled Persons.; Community-Institutional Relations.; Health Promotion.; Dental Health Services..