Autopercepção sobre saúde bucal dos usuários do restaurante popular de Patos/PB.

Abstract

Popular restaurants are units of food and nutrition preferably located in large urban centers. Popular restaurants aims to the preparation and marketing of healthy meals, which are available at affordable prices to the population. The research objective of this work is to understand the user profile of the popular restaurant located at Patos-PB, and to evaluate the quality of life and the self-perception of oral health of participants. The OHIP questionnaire was submmited to 397 users, 42.8% of them were students. The results also point that: 36% of respondents lived with four or more people; 41.8% responded that live at Jatobá, which is the neighborhood where the popular restaurant is located. According to the analyzed data about oral health, we can observed that most of the respondents self-evaluated as having good oral health condition. The majority (86%) does not presented gum problem and 47% had some dental problem. The data collected through the questionnaires was recorded in a specific software, which is the Google Docs®. Through this software all data were stored and graphs were extracted for result analysis. Oral health is a basic human right and its contribution is essential to a good quality of life. However, there are still huge inequalities in the appropriate access to general and oral health.