AVALIAÇÃO DA AUTO PERCEPÇÃO DA SAÚDE BUCAL DAS GESTANTES:REVISÃO DE LITERATURA

The objective of the study was to evaluate the self-perception of oral health of pregnant women. A review of the literature on the self-perception of oral health of pregnant women was carried out, with an active search in the databases of the Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System Online-Medline, Pubmed, Latin American Center (BIREME), Latin American and Caribbean Literature in Health Sciences (LILACS) and Google Academic, between 2005 and 2015, with the descriptors: pregnant women, self-perception, oral health, oral health, pregnant and self-reported, self-perception. A total of 701 articles were identified14 by reading the abstracts in which the content was about the self-perception of the oral health of pregnant women. It was concluded that the self-perception of pregnant women is low in relation to oral health problems, indicating that the lack of knowledge about the subject makes the pregnant women do not identify the need for dental treatment. Educational programs should be created in order to offer more knowledge to this group, in addition to including prenatal dental care. Descriptors: pregnant women, oral health, self-concept.