Abstract The aim of this study was to evaluate the awareness of patients using bisphosphonates (BP) regarding their risks and benefits. Sixty-five patients using BP were included. Each participant completed a self-administered questionnaire consisting of 13 questions, including sociodemographic and general information on BP. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, and a binomial test was used to assess patient knowledge about BP, considering a 5% significance level. Fifty-nine (90.2%) patients were unaware or had never heard of BP drugs and only 3 (4.6%) knew their indications. Only 6 patients (9.2%) said they knew about the oral complications caused by BP. Sixty-three patients (96.9%) said they were not referred to the dentist before starting BP treatment. Patients using BP do not have satisfactory knowledge regarding the risks and benefits of BP. Physicians and dentists must be prepared to inform and counsel BP users about their adverse effects and possible risk factors. Our results emphasize the importance of public policies, whether individual or collective, to be taken to increase knowledge about BP to avoid medication-related osteonecrosis of the jaw.

ABSTRACT Background: In the study of biologically-based materials, nanocelluloses have been showing great prominence and positioned themselves as promising alternatives for the production of different industrialized materials. This polymer has received significant attention recently because it is produced from renewable sources and has unique properties offered by its organic nature and semi-crystalline structure. This work aimed to study the structural properties of suspensions and films by increasing MCC concentration in the form of powder with variations of 5 % (m/m) from 5 % to 30 %. Results: As expected, incorporating MCC increased the Segal index. The morphological analysis showed an increase in the diameters of the structures (NFC / MCC) in the suspensions when the presence of MCC was more significant, and films with cluster formations were observed. The films showed air permeability. Due to the MCC increase, the surface charge had results close to electrostatically stabilized nanosuspensions. An increase in the resistance to thermal degradation of the films was also observed Conclusion: NFC has promising properties for different applications; it provides a film with a stable structure and is resistant to oxygen and tensile stresses. In addition, MCC has excellent potential due to its high crystallinity, structural characteristics, and nature. The increase of the MCC content altered the properties of the suspensions and films produced with NFC, forming a cohesive and resistant film, and influencing the performance of the different properties of the materials evaluated in this study, like air permeability, suspension stability, and thermal resistance.

O presente artigo investiga as principais estratégias de construção do ethos do sujeito enunciador-consumidor que emergem na produção discursiva dos participantes de Audiências de Conciliação, de um Juizado Especial Cível de Relações de Consumo de uma cidade mineira. Para tanto, selecionamos duas Audiências de Conciliação, que foram transcritas e analisadas a partir da teoria Semiolinguística de Patrick Charaudeau. A análise dos dados demonstrou que, ao longo das audiências analisadas, o ethos de vítima do consumidor/reclamante é encenado através de algumas estratégias discursivas, as quais não são aleatórias; ao contrário, as estratégias utilizadas coadunam-se com o projeto de fala que o consumidor tem em mente e, sobretudo, ao ethos que ele procura encenar.

This study investigates the main strategies of ethos construction of the consumer-enunciator subject that emerges in the participants' discursive production in a Conciliation Hearing in a Brazilian Small Claims Court (Juizado Especial de Relações de Consumo) from a city in Minas Gerais state. For this, we selected two Conciliation Hearings, which were transcribed and analyzed from the perspective of Semiolinguistics Theory of Patrick Charaudeau. Data analysis showed that during the analyzed audiences the ethos of victim by the consumer is built through some discursive strategies which are not random; on the contrary, the strategies used are consistent with the speech project that the consumer has in mind and, above all, the ethos that he desires to perform.

El presente artículo investiga las principales estrategias de construcción del ethos del sujeto enunciador-consumidor que emergen en la producción discursiva de los participantes de Audiencias de Conciliación, de un Juzgado Especial Civil de Relaciones de Consumo de una ciudad minera. Para tanto, seleccionamos dos Audiencias de Conciliación, que fueron transcriptas y analizadas a partir de la teoría Semiolingüística de Patrick Charaudeau. El análisis de los datos demostró que, a lo largo de las audiencias analizadas, el ethos de víctima del consumidor/reclamante es representado a través de algunas estrategias discursivas, las cuales no son aleatorias; al contrario, las estrategias utilizadas son consistentes con el proyecto de habla que el consumidor tiene en mente y, sobre todo, al ethos que él busca representar.

O presente estudo investiga a construção de identidade que emerge da produção discursiva dos consumidores nas audiências de conciliação de um Juizado especial Cível de relações de Consumo de uma cidade mineira. a partir de teorias da Sociolinguística interacional e da utilização de técnicas da análise da Conversa, gravamos quatro audiências em áudio e analisamos a construção de identidade de consumidor por meio de seus relatos nas audiências. A análise dos dados confirmou a riqueza de construções identitárias nas narrativas analisadas. Percebemos que os reclamantes constroem suas identidades a fim de se posicionarem como vítimas e posicionarem o seu oponente como vilão. Para isso, as estratégias mais frequentes por eles utilizadas são: a exploração de um grande número de repetições, a utilização de termos extremos e a incorporação de diferentes categorias identitárias.

This study investigates the construction of identity that emerges in the consumers' discursive production of a conciliation hearing in a kind of Brazilian Small Claim Court (Juizado especial de relações de Consumo) in Minas Gerais state. Based on theories of interactional Sociolinguistic and on Conversation analyses techniques, we recorded four conciliation hearings and analyzed the identity construction of the consumer through their accounts. The data analysis confirmed the richness of identity construction in the narratives we analyzed. We perceived that consumers construct their identities in order to align themselves in the role of victim and align their opponent in the role of villain. For that, the most used strategies are: the exploration of a great number of repetition, the use of extreme terms, and the incorporation of different identity categories.