It was concluded that clinical determinants had the greatest influence on OHRQoL of individuals with ID.

Objective: to access and identify barriers to oral health care of people with intellectual disabilities (ID), from the caregivers' perspective. Material and Methods: the random sample was composed of 55 caregivers of people with ID and an interview script with a qualitative approach was applied to deepen the understanding of this group about oral health services accessibility. The qualitative analysis was performed through the Discourse of the Collective Subject Method. Results: we observed some barriers to access and care to oral health to patients with disabilities, such as: lack of structure and organization of the service, deficient training of professionals for attendance, among others. In addition, the health care within a practice little paid in and weakly based on health promotion were other factors that compromised the access of people with ID. Conclusion: the access evaluation is extremely important, because it allows the reordering of actions and services according to the users' needs. However, despite the advances, the patient with ID still has been facing barriers, basically to the accessibility to treatment performed by professionals, to reception and low management.

Resumo Introdução Os Centros de Especialidades Odontológicas (CEO) possuem papel importante na redução das iniquidades de acesso aos serviços odontológicos especializados. Assim, eles devem ser avaliados em prol da melhoria contínua do seu desempenho. Objetivo Avaliar o cumprimento das metas de desempenho dos CEO da 2ª Regional de Saúde do Paraná. Método Procedeu-se à avaliação do desempenho dos CEO, por meio do indicador de cumprimento global de metas e indicadores socioeconômicos. Para tal, foram utilizados dados secundários de 2014 do Sistema de Informação Ambulatorial do Sistema Único de Saúde (SIA/SUS), do Cadastro Nacional de Estabelecimentos de Saúde (CNES) e do Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística (IBGE). Resultados Em 2014, apenas o CEO do município de Colombo apresentou desempenho ruim (cumprimento de nenhuma meta), estabelecendo divergência ao desempenho ótimo (cumprimento das três metas) obtido pelos demais municípios. Conclusão O desempenho dos CEO sofre influência das caraterísticas contextuais atinentes à região em que estão inseridos. Portanto, observa-se a necessidade de repensar os métodos de avaliação desses estabelecimentos por meio da construção de instrumentos de avaliação que ponderem a singularidade de cada região.

Objective: To evaluate the association of oral health indicators and social variables on the frequency of visit to the dentist by persons with intellectual disability (ID). Material and Methods: The study comprised a sample consisting of 149 participants with ID, aged from 11 to 29 years, from non-governmental institutions. Semi-structured interviews were held to collect sociodemographic and psychosocial information with their parents/guardians, followed by oral health evaluations in accordance with World Health Organization criteria. Crude analyses and multiple analysis were conducted to test whether oral health indicators and social data were predictors of the visit to dental care services. Results: In the multiple logistic regression model, individuals with lower DMF-t (OR=3.13; 95% CI=1.40-6.97) and those with less crowded housing (OR=2.33; 95% CI=1.06-5.12) presented less frequency of visits to oral health services. Conclusion: DMFT and crowded housing are associated to the frequency of persons with intellectual disability to dental care as well as this outcome measure affects the oral health of persons with ID. Therefore, identifying limiting factors to dental care of persons with intellectual disability is needed so that this group can receive adequate attention.

The Dental Specialties Centers (CEOs) were created within the context of the National Oral Health Policy, and the main function of these establishments is to serve as units of reference in secondary oral health care in the Brazilian national health system (SUS), and they must offer at least the services of stomatology, specialized periodontology, minor oral surgery, endodontics, and attendance to patients with special needs. The aim of this study was to evaluate the quality of the CEOs in the mountain region of the Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil, in the perspective of the patients with special needs care or their companion’s satisfaction. Data were collected from 159 users by using a standardized self-applied individual semi-structured questionnaire. The results indicated a positive evaluation in most of the dimensions, except the accessibility dimension. Significant differences (p < 0.05) were observed between the services of the following dimensions of quality: accessibility, resoluteness, technical-scientific quality, efficiency, efficacy, and acceptability. The analysis of qualitative data, through the discourse of the collective subject technique (DCS) and social representations, showed five central ideas about users’ satisfaction and dissatisfaction with CEOs services (humanized health care, resoluteness of the service, professional competence, infrastructure and organization of the service, access to the services). In conclusion, most patients with special needs care and their companions were satisfied with specialized dental centers (SDC) services, although there were significant differences among SDCs services in relation to individuals’ satisfaction.