Perfil epidemiológico dos pacientes atendidos na Clínica-Escola de Endodontia da Universidade Pública do Sertão da Paraíba.

Abstract

Epidemiological profile of patients treated at the School Clinic of Endodontics of the Public University of Sertão da Paraíba. Faced with the transformation that Dentistry has undergone in recent years, from a primarily curative practice to a more humanized and preventive, it is necessary to be always seeking to understand what the real needs of patients and ways to improve the service offered to them . It was from this perspective that this study was developed, with the purpose of tracing the profile of patients attended at the endodontics clinic of the Federal University of Campina Grande, Patos campus. This research has a crosssectional, observational and descriptive character and was performed through the evaluation of 342 medical records of the patients attending the endodontic clinic of the Federal University of Campina Grande, in analysis to the data we verified that the majority of patients are female ( 65.5%), aged 35-66 years (37.1%), living in the municipality of Patos (73.4%), diagnosed with pulp necrosis (60.6%), with endodontic intervention as indicated treatment (92.1%). This study becomes relevant in that it provides the necessary data base to know more about the patients received in this clinic-school and thus to serve them in the best possible way.