Introduction and Objective:

There is need for papers involving children undergoing dental approach in hospital environment to report the clinical characteristics of the children attended by the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit Dentistry Service of a reference hospital of the Unified Health System (SUS) To record the oral conditions of the children and treatments performed by the team of professionals in Dentistry.

Materials and methods:

retrospective descriptive study, through retrieval of medical records and results were tabulated and analyzed by means of percentage difference. The sample consisted of 145 patients from 0 to 15 years of age attended and followed up by the UTIPed Dentistry service from September 2016 to November 2017. Patients were analyzed for gender, age, reason for hospitalization, level of consciousness, condition of the airways, pathological processes in the oral cavity, dental procedures performed, oral hygiene material used and presence of PAV.

Results:

Patients were in the age range of less than 1 year up to 17 years, with females being more frequent (54.48%). Regarding the origin 94 (64.23) were internal patients of the University Hospital and 51 (35.77%) were transferred from other hospitals. When we evaluated the oral health conditions, 45.83% of the patients presented satisfactory oral hygiene, 45.14% regular and 9.03% deficient. Regarding oral mucosa conditions, only 5.52% of the patients presented alterations, of which, 3.45% were already on admission.

Conclusion:

It was verified that the children hospitalized in Pediatric ICU may present changes in the oral mucosa from the moment of admission, being mandatory the constant presence of the dentist in the ICU team to treat and provide a greater adherence to the oral care of these patients.

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