Use of dental services by disability status in Brazil in 2013.

Objective: To describe the prevalence and factors associated with the use of oral health services in people with and without disabilities in Brazil.

Methods: A cross-sectional study was used with the secondary data of 60,202 individuals from the Brazilian National Health Survey of 2013. The main exposure variable was 'Disability', and the main outcome was 'Dental service use'.

Specialized dental care for people with disabilities in Brazil: profile of the Dental Specialty Centers, 2014.

Objective: To describe the oral health care services for people with disabilities treated within the Dentistry for Patients with Special Needs (PSN) specialty.

Methods: This was a cross-sectional study with data from the Program for Improving Access and Quality of Dental Specialty Centers (PMAQ-CEO) in 2014.

Results: Of the total of 932 services evaluated, 89.

Barriers to and facilitators of communication to care for people with sensory disabilities in primary health care: a multilevel study.

Objective: Communication barriers are the main obstacle for people with sensory disabilities (visual and hearing) to access health services. This study aims to describe the presence of facilitators of communication of basic health units in Brazil and to verify its associated factors.

Methods: Cross-sectional multilevel study, of 38,811 health units in 5,543 municipalities between 2012 and 2013, collected in the National Program for Improving Access and Quality in Primary Care (Programa Nacional de Melhoria do Acesso e da Qualidade da Atenção Básica - PMAQ-AB).

Access and use of speech-language therapy services in Porto Alegre, Brazil: a population-based study.

To estimate the prevalence of access and use of speech-language therapy services and identify the variables associated with access. Cross-sectional population-based study. The sample consisted of adult individuals living in Porto Alegre, southern Brazil.

[Presence of Specialized Dentistry Centers and the relationship with dental extractions in the oral healthcare network in Brazil].

This study aimed to assess the association between the presence of Specialized Dentistry Centers and dental extractions as a proportion of all dental procedures in public services in Brazil. This was an ecological study that assessed sociodemographic data, oral health services, and outpatient production in 5,333 municipalities in 2000-2001 and 2015-2016. The principal exposure variable was the presence of Specialized Dentistry Centers, and the outcome was the mean national proportion of dental extractions in relation to all preventive and curative dental procedures.

Concerns about dental aesthetics are associated with oral health related quality of life in Southern Brazilian adults.

It aims to evaluate the association between dental appearance and Oral Health Related Quality of Life. Fifteen primary care services with dental services were selected in Porto Alegre, Brazil. Individuals were interviewed from a random sampling of households in the catchment area of the health centres.