Integrality in everyday dental care: review of the literature

This study aimed to make an integrative review of the literature on integrality and oral health care. Publications made after 2004, both official (Miinistry of Health website) and academic papers (Virtual Health Library) were surveyed using five descriptors ('oral health integrality', 'dentistry integrality',' oral health integrality,' 'integrality oral health,' 'oral health comprehensiveness,' 'integrality' - filter 'oral health'). After the exclusion criteria had been applied, 39 references were read and analyzed in the light of the senses of integrality, of which two official documents and 37 academic papers. Unique professional attitudes, the way health services are organized, and planning policies aimed at integrality are contents present in the references. The idea of integrality was connected to their devices (outreach, connection, accountability), academic training, to teamwork, and to the need for different levels of assistance. Other aspects, such as the work process, management mechanisms and intersectionality, should be part of future studies involving the interface of integrality with oral health.