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Objective: To evaluate the barriers to access and oral health care faced by children and adolescents with Cerebral Palsy (CP) according to their motor impairment through the perception of caregivers. Material and Methods: A case series study was carried out at three health institutions in Pernambuco, Brazil. The study sample consisted of 94 caregivers of 5-to-18-year-old patients with CP, according to GMFCS (The Gross Motor Function Classification System). Data were collected using a semi-structured form to evaluate the barriers to access and analyzed statistically by the chi-square and Fisher exact tests, adopting a 5% level of significance. In addition, binary logistic regression was performed to determine the weight of the variables in explaining the outcome variable. Results: There were major difficulties involving transportation (p=0.04) and structural accessibility to dental services (p

Resumo Introdução O estudo da qualidade de vida de crianças portadoras de doenças crônicas, como o HIV, é essencial, visando um cuidado integral e holístico para os portadores da doença. Objetivo Avaliar a qualidade de vida e os fatores sociodemográficos associados de crianças portadoras do HIV. Método Estudo descritivo transversal, amostra de 78 crianças de ambos os sexos, faixa etária de 3 a 13 anos, atendidas em serviço de referência da cidade do Recife-PE. Foram utilizados o questionário Critério de Classificação Econômica Brasil, para caracterização socioeconômica, e a Escala de Qualidade de Vida da Criança (AUQEI). Para avaliar associação entre as variáveis, foram utilizados o teste Qui-quadrado de Pearson e o teste Exato de Fischer. A margem de erro utilizada foi de 5%. Resultados No tocante à qualidade de vida, ficar doente, brincar sozinho e a presença de bullying na escola apresentaram baixos índices de satisfação. Já itens como férias, aniversário, estar à mesa com a família e assistir televisão apresentaram altos níveis de satisfação. Conclusão As crianças desta pesquisa demonstraram uma qualidade de vida influenciada pelos aspectos negativos presentes em suas vidas. Desta forma, é necessária uma equipe multidisciplinar para o tratamento e prevenção de comorbidades, inclusive as psicossociais.

Hospital dental care is an educational and health care strategy whose purpose is to intervene, in a multidisciplinary way, in the health-disease process of vulnerable individuals, as unsatisfactory oral health is a risk factor for local and systemic infections. Patients in cancer treatment usually present oral manifestations because of the antineoplastic therapies to which they are submitted. Chemotherapy, radiation and cancer surgery, when the latter held in the head and neck region, have the potential to generate side effects in the oral cavity. These oral manifestations can be serious and interfere with the results of medical therapy, leading to important systemic complications, which can increase hospital stay, treatment costs, and affect the quality of life. In view of this reality, the incorporation of the dentist into the multiprofessional team in oncology is essential to guarantee the patient’s integral care in all stages of therapy. This article then proposes to report a series of cases of patients attended at the Dentistry Service of the Oncology Center of the Oswaldo Cruz University Hospital of the University of Pernambuco, that exemplify the dental surgeon performance in a hospital environment, participating as an active member of a multidisciplinary team in oncology.