Dentistry from the perspective of multidisciplinary, integrated and humanized hospital care for hospitalized patients
Keywords:
Multidisciplinary care team, Hospital dental team, Quality of lifeAbstract
Hospital dentistry was officially recognized as a specialty in 2024. However, dental surgeons have been working in this area for decades, especially when requested by other health professionals, who are usually members of hospital care teams. This chapter seeks to present how the multidisciplinary, comprehensive and humanized approach to patients admitted to or in Hospice Units or under palliative care takes place and the competencies and benefits of Dentistry, together with the other specialties, for the quality of life of this target population.
Downloads
Published
Issue
Section
License
Copyright (c) 2024 Leonardo Cavalcanti Bezerra dos Santos, Zilma Ribeiro do Nascimento , Maria da Conceição de Barros Correia , Ana Maria Fontes Leite de Sá , Janaína Maria Silva Vieira , Renata Cristina Isidoro Carneiro Beltrão , Janny Leonor Lourenço Ferreira , Erika Michelle do Nascimento Facundes Barboza , Janaína Maria Silva Vieira, Niedje Siqueira de Lima , Rosa Maria Mariz de Melo Sales Marmhoud Coury , Kátia Maria Gonçalves Marques, Luciana de Barros Correia Fontes
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
