Oral health policy in Brazil has been centred on giving assistance to diseases for decades and a great portion of the Brazilian population has not already had access to dentistry care. Through Edict 1.444, dated 28th December 2000, the Ministry established a financial incentive for attention re-organization given to oral health in municipalities. In this context, this study aimed at evaluating the situation of oral health teams inserted in the Family's Health Program (FHP) in the city of Campos dos Goytacazes, Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil, in 2002. The results show some limitations related to inclusion a working of dentistry at the FHP in that city. Dentistry attention must be attached to the FHP, in accordance with the basic principles of the Re-structuring Oral Health Action Plan in the Basic Attention proposed by the Health Ministry and the National Health System consolidation.
Public health; Oral health; Family's Health Program
