A Universidade apresenta um importante papel na formação de um profissional capaz de atender às demandas da população, buscando a relevância social. As Diretrizes Curriculares Nacionais trouxeram para a Odontologia a flexibilização do currículo, permitindo que cada instituição de ensino formulasse sua proposta pedagógica para abranger e se adequar à realidade social local. Dessa forma, são necessários novos perfis de profissionais com condições de responder às necessidades de saúde da população de acordo com os princípios e diretrizes do Sistema Único de Saúde (SUS). Para isso, a formação do cirurgião-dentista deve resgatar o caráter coletivo da prática odontológica, graduando um profissional apto a interferir na realidade do indivíduo e do território. O estudo objetiva verificar as expectativas e motivações dos estudantes ingressantes na Faculdade de Odontologia da Universidade de São Paulo no ano de 2013 em relação ao curso e ao mercado de trabalho no contexto das Diretrizes Curriculares Nacionais e integração com o SUS. Foi aplicado um questionário aos ingressantes no primeiro semestre de 2013 e os dados foram tabulados no software Microsoft Excel. Os resultados revelaram que 46% dos ingressantes já entram na faculdade objetivando uma especialidade, 76,59% dos ingressantes almejam um bom retorno financeiro, ao passo que 53,19% desejam ter seu próprio consultório ou trabalhar como autônomo. Concluímos que diante do perfil de trabalho autônomo, privado e altamente especializado, a academia tem um grande desafio de desconstruir o imaginário trazido pelo ingressante, a fim de que este possa estar apto a trabalhar de forma adequada no SUS.

The aim of the present study is to describe the simplified facial pattern of young Brazilian men and women using the facial index (FI), upper face index (UFI), and nasal index (NI) in indirect anthropometric measurements applied to frontal photographic images. The images were obtained from 660 adult white men and 689 adult white women aged 30 years ± 6 months, and classified according to regions of birth, as follows: south (S), southeast (SE), midwest (MW), northeast (NE), and north (N). The nasion, zygion, gnathion, stomion, subnasale, and alare landmarks were labeled on the images using the SAFF 2D® software. Based on the coordinates, the linear distances between the landmarks of interest were calculated and presented as indices. The analysis of variance and Student’s t-test were used for assessing the regions of birth and gender, respectively. The collected data allowed obtaining the facial profile of the young adult Brazilian population. There were differences in the facial profiles between men and women and also between some regions, especially between the N and the other Brazilian regions (p<0.05). The UFI did not show a statistically significant difference (p>0.05) between genders for any of the regions. The discriminant analysis for gender assessment demonstrated higher accuracy when the three indices were analyzed together. In the decision tree for gender assessment, the NI showed better results than the other indices.

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Questionnaires for the assessment of knowledge and selfperception can be useful to diagnose what a dentist knows about management and administration. The aim of the present study was to create and validate the Dental Management Survey Brazil (DMS-BR) scale, based on meetings with experts in the field. After having elaborated the first version, 10 audits were performed in dental offices in order to produce the final version, which included nine dimensions: location, patient, finance, marketing, competition, quality, staff, career, and productivity. The accuracy of the instrument was measured by intrarater and interrater reliability. In the validation phase, 247 Brazilian dentists answered a web-based questionnaire. The data were processed using Stata 13.0 and the significance level was set at 95%. The instrument had intrarater and interrater reliability (ICC-0.93 and 0.94). The overall average of respondents for the DMS-BR scale was 3.77 (SD = 0.45). Skewness and kurtosis were below absolute values 3 and 7, respectively. Internal validity measured by Cronbach's alpha was 0.925 and the correlation of each dimension with the final result of the DMS-BR ranged between 0.606 and 0.810. Correlation with the job satisfaction scale was 0.661. The SEM data ranged between 0.80 and 0.56. The questionnaire presented satisfactory indicators of dentists' self-perception about management and administration activities.