Conhecimento de cirurgiões dentistas sobre maus-tratos infantis: uma revisão de literatura.

Abstract

The child maltreatment correspond to any action or omission that harms the wellbeing, physical, or psychological integrity, freedom and the right to full psychological development of children and adolescents. Not only physical violence, because it is easier their perception, as well as neglect, psychological abuse, sexual violence, as Munchausen syndrome by proxy and the Shaken Baby, are said to child maltreatment, which often go unrecognized by accountable and professionals who look after these children. Once the child abuse affects the lives of the lower and of their leaders at all levels, it becomes essential to adopt measures multidisciplinary prevention, helping significantly in exclusion or solution to this problem, so that the main pipe is the recognition of early diagnosis violence on the part of doctors, nurses, psychologists and dentists. Like most injuries coming from maltreatment is located in the head and neck region, dentists are in a privileged position for the analysis and identification of child maltreatment. Although, there are many cases of child abuse that are omitted and not reported by these professionals, where lead to several reasons not to report, such as: unawareness of cause, uncertainty of diagnosis, engage with justice, not knowing to whom to report the case , fear of facing parents and fear of losing patients, some of them are. Showing that the responsibility and obligation of the story, which in this case are very important are suppressed, leaving the auxiliary and even resolve many injuries against children. Thus, it is essential that regular offers graduation courses on the responsibility of the dentist in the diagnosis, documentation, reporting and assistance to child victims of child maltreatment, they should be educated and counseled about the recognition of the main clinical signs of these cases , so being aware of the great responsibility in the notification and reporting of child abuse. In this way, the present work conduct a literature review in order to observe the knowledge of dentists about this theme.