The inpatients in General Hospital – HGP Palmas (TO) have available to dental services.
the activities carried out by Hospital Dentistry, together with the multidisciplinary team, are to present a proposal for treatment and resolution of oral problems, which might interfere with the patient’s recovery or worsen the General State of health.
according to dentist Cléria Rezende, responsible service, research shows that the oral microflora, which patients in critical condition is different from that of healthy patients, contains organisms that quickly can cause pneumonia and other changes within 48 hours after hospitalization. “Oral lesions by external trauma or stimulated by the patient, or even pre-existing Oral lesions, are factors that affect the well-being, because besides causing discomfort and hinder, by many times, your oral hygiene can be manifestations of the disease in treatment, or injuries that characterised other changes of the general framework for health, which if untreated can develop into some opportunistic disease.”
dentistry Hospital of HGP is establishing daily routines initially in Neurology clinics, intensive care Unit and Oncology (adult), and later, will be extended to all clinics and units of the institution’s service
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Multiprofessional attention to patients bedridden, seeking the welfare, rapid recovery and decrease complications of health framework, has brought to hospitals the action integral and Multiprofessional, performances that were previously restricted only to medical staff and nurses. This vision of care causes many professionals such as physiotherapists, Audiologists, dietitians, occupational therapists, social workers, psychologists, educators, pharmacists, dentists, among others, contribute with their knowledge, for comfort and for maintenance of the health of the patient hospitalized.
