Determination of soil properties from standard penetration test complemented by torque measurement (SPT-T)

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)

Simplified periodontal record for pregnant women

The assessment using the PSR (Periodontal Screening and Recording) of the prevalence and severity of and the basic treatment needs for periodontal disease in a group of pregnant women who attended the Preventive Dentistry Clinic at the School of Dentistry of Araraquara--UNESP. Forty-one pregnant women of 16 to 37 years of age, were examined. The PSR index was evaluated with a suitable periodontal probe (Trinity-model 621-WHO) with index codes scores of from 0 to 4, capable of indicating the presence of the following conditions: periodontal health, bleeding on probing, calculus, shallow and deep pockets. These codes were attributed to each sextant and could be marked with an asterisk (*) to indicate the presence of gingival recession, furcation lesions, mobility or any other mucogingival alterations. It is shown that 100% of the pregnant women had some kind of gingival alteration, represented mainly by PSR code 2 (56.1%) and * (19.5%). The women in the youngest age groups, 15-19 and 20-24 years, had code 2 as their highest score with no sextant excluded. In the 25-29 age group, the PSR code 2 still prevailed (54.5%) although codes 3 and 4 were already appearing. The code * and the occurrence of excluded sextants tended to increase in the oldest age group (30-37). In general, the affected sextants showed codes 1 and 2 more frequently, corresponding to 41.6% and 39.8% respectively, which represented a mean of 2.49 and 2.39 sextants affected in each pregnant woman. Regarding the treatment needs, 90.2% of the women needed some treatment beyond the preventive measures begun, including scaling and root planning and/or corrections of defective restorative margins (61%), and more complex treatment (29.2%). The meeting of the treatment needs during pregnancy must include special efforts to increase motivation and promote oral health, minimizing the possibility of vertical transmission of pathogenic microrganisms to the child, and thus contributing to the primary prevention of the main oral diseases.

Dental students familiarity with the implications of using local anesthetics and dental materials

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

O processo reflexivo e a reflexão critica em alunos de um curso de licenciatura em Ciências Biológicas

A partir da compreensão do curso de licenciatura como momento essencial para a forma-ção do professor como intelectual crítico, o presente estudo teve por objetivo analisar elementos do processo reflexivo de licenciandos em Ciências Biológicas, buscando-se identificar o desenvolvimento do nível crítico de reflexão. Participaram do estudo 25 alunos do último ano de um curso de licen-ciatura em Ciências Biológicas de uma universidade pública. Os dados foram coletados por meio de dois instrumentos escritos e possibilitaram a identificação de conteúdos, de fatores desencadeadores, de implicações e de níveis de reflexão dos alunos e a presença de habilidades e atitudes necessárias ao processo reflexivo.