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LEAL, Carmen Angela Guimarães. Biosafety and waste management in health services: the importance in the dentistry professionals' formation in perspective of human and environmental health. Rev. ABENO [online]. 2015, vol.15, n.2, pp. 82-94. ISSN 1679-5954.

The building of consciousness in citizenship, with responsibility and ethics, depends on actions that initiate in the formation and can be perpetuated in professional work. It's in the period of dentistry graduation that the student sees itself faced with not only technical issues, but with health situations in a wholesome view, as in the case of wastes generated during clinical practice. The aggravations to professionals/students and staff, third parties, in the outdoors of service establishments, as well as in the environment, may occur if proper procedures in management of wastes produced in dentistry are not observed, given that the potential risk of these increases when they are handled inadequately or are not properly prepared and disposed of, particularly in situations which favor the penetration of risk agents in the human organism and/or harm to the environment. In the issue that involves these types of waste, knowledge is the essential tool for proper management actions, from minimizing production to correct disposal. In order to contribute how the knowledge can be inserted in the application of this theme in the dentistry professional formation, it's proposed a literature review, with descriptive, exploratory and bibliographic research of academic-scientific and normative materials related to the management of health waste in dentistry, associating it to the importance of approaching the issue in the Biosafety discipline, presenting its scope in promoting in human and environmental health, which constitutes as a relevant proposal in the context of public health.

Palavras-chave : Education in Dentistry.; Biosafety.; Waste of Health Services..