Abstract
The aim was to better understand aspects of the relationship between dentistry and society through the direct observation of the daily service and the discourse of dentists members of the Family Health Strategy (Primary Care) teams, who discussed their oral health therapy in a new regulatory scenario. A study developed using the Clinical-Qualitative Method during the year 2016, starting from the theme "dental caries therapy" as a triggering subject for the development of the interviews, carried out by a semi-structured questionnaire of in-depth open questions in the units of health. The material obtained was analyzed through Qualitative Content Analysis. The results showed power settings descended from a conservative dental point of view, unfavorable to the purposes of Health Promotion paradigm, but also pointed to potential brought by the Family Health model, revealed through creativity and reflexivity about educational actions and challenges that could stimulate the professional. It was considered, however, that the work of the dentist in this context retained predominantly a hegemonic modus operandi, characterized by unbalanced relations of power.
Keywords:
oral health; primary health care; Family Health Program; Unified Health System, qualitative research