The Dentists of the Family Health Strategy: Study on the Taste Related to their Practices

Abstract

This study aimed to characterize origin and social trajectory as well as the taste relative to the professional practices of dentists working in the ESF of the municipal network of Salvador-BA. This is a cross-sectional, quantitative and exploratory study involving dentists who worked at the ESF in Salvador-BA. Data collection was carried out through structured questionnaires. Simple, relative frequencies were obtained and the Chi-square test was performed. 72 dentists who worked in the FHS participated in the study. There was a predominance of female dentists (80.28%) and with an average age of 39.2 years. As for social origin, 13.46% had a popular social origin, and 76.79% had an upward trend. About what they most like to do in the clinic, 58.82% answered procedures involving the restorative clinic. The taste for surgical clinic seems to have a correlation with popular social origin (28.57%). The study confirmed a phenomenon already described in the literature as feminization. Most dentists have an upward trend, which points to a rise in accumulated school capital. The taste was preferably for the restorative clinic. Therefore, the taste of professionals of popular origin for the surgical clinic can be the expression of a class habitus. This study points to a relationship between the taste for surgical clinic among professionals of popular origin.