Positioning of dental entities on the National Oral Health Policy, in the period 2015-2017

Abstract

This study analyzed the positioning of national dental entities on the National Oral Health Policy (PNSB),  between 2015 and 2017, in Brazil, as a space for  relations of strength between agents and institutions.  A documentary analysis of the related publications  about politics was carried out on official websites,  social networks and news from the Federal Council of  Dentistry (CFO), of the Brazilian Association of  Dentistry (ABO), the Federations of unions and the  Association of Collective Oral Health (Abrasbuco). The monitoring was weekly, according to categories:  actions and positioning of the entity on the politics,  professional demands and relations with the political  field. It was observed, during this period, that CFO  and Interstate Odontologists Federation were the  entities that most published about politics. The unions and representatives of Abrasbuco were more critically  positioned about the successive changes inthe  General Coordination of Oral Health in 2015. It stands out the common position of entities for the  defense of the expansion of the policy with new jobs  in the SUS and articulation with the legislative power  in the approval of bills, such as dentistry in the  Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and the transformation of  the PNSB into State politics.