Medical and dental emergencies are life-threatening situations. Dental surgeons in general have difficulties when dealing with the initial management of medical and dental emergencies. This work aims to analyze the degree of knowledge of dentists in the face of medical and dental emergencies in the dental office. This way, a qualitative cross-sectional study was carried out through the application of forms after approval by the ethics and research committee containing questions that covered specific questions about medical and dental emergencies. -graduation at the ``Centro Universitário Doutor Leão Sampaio` (Unileão) and at the Caririense Postgraduate Center (Cecap), and 70 dentists were approached, however 50 dentists agreed to participate in the research. In view of the data (58%) of the dentists stated that they considered themselves capable of handling a situation of airway obstruction, (18%) stated that they considered themselves capable of handling a situation of Ludwig's angina, (36%) stated who consider themselves able to handle an anaphylactic shock situation, (28%) stated that they consider themselves able to handle an acute myocardial infarction situation, (12%) stated that they consider themselves able to handle a vascular accident situation brain, (48%) stated that they considered themselves able to manage an acute asthma attack. When asked if they had studied medical emergencies at graduation, (82%) had studied medical emergencies at graduation. It was concluded that most dentists interviewed are not prepared to resolve medical and dental emergencies in the dental office.

Aim: To describe through a literature review Alzheimer's disease and a new complementary therapy that allows an improvement in the individual's quality of life. Methodology: A bibliographic search was performed in the main health databases PUBMED and BVS Regional Portal, in which different studies, including laboratory studies, case reports, systematic reviews, narratives, and reviews, which were developed in living individuals, were included. Therefore, articles that did not address the topic in question, letters to the editor, opinion articles, duplicate literature in databases, and literature that did not address the variables under study were excluded. Results: According to the methodological analysis, it is observed that the average publication of articles in the Pubmed database was 2.33 and with a standard deviation of 1.11. While in BVS Regional Portal, the average was 1.0 and the standard deviation was 0.71. Thus, it is possible to verify that there was a significant variation in the number of articles in the two databases. Conclusion: It is concluded that deep brain stimulation applied to the fornix is a safe procedure, in addition to being a very promising alternative for patients who are refractory to other treatments. Therefore, there is a high benefit and safety in the use of the f-DPE technique in patients with AD.