This paper analyzes the dental health/ disease process using the concept of "buccality", as proposed by Botazzo¹. Limitations of dentistry and its insufficiency are presented in order to discuss buccal health based on the role the mouth plays within society. Starting from the disciplining of society a producer of useful and docile bodies , a concept laid out by Foucault, the issue of an individual's autonomy in the work society is introduced. It is characterized as a process of disciplining of bodies to make them adequate to capitalism. In a later moment, it constitutes a specific clipping: the disciplining of the mouth and dentistry as an instrument of discipline. Dentistry producing functionally useful, but politically docile and disciplined mouths. The mouth seen as a specific field of work for a knowledge and market area. A watched, controlled and framed mouth. The mouth is disciplined and its pleasures are restrained. Wouldn't the repressions over the mouth have consequences for its health? This process used dentistry as a great legitimizer of the disciplining of the mouth, which becomes alienated, isolated and discriminated against. Finally, "buccality" was proposed as an alternative way for a new comprehension of the mouth and of buccal health, and who knows, as the object of dentistry itself.
Buccality; Collective health; Disciplining