Trabalho, Educação e Saúde - TES (Work, Education and Health) is an open access scientific journal, edited by the Joaquim Venâncio Polytechnic School of Health, from Oswaldo Cruz Foundation.
The purpose of this article is to present the perspective of students who were completing the college of Dentistry about their learning in the Collective Oral Health area, and to get to know their perception about the Single Health System (SUS). Almost all of the students mentioned the importance of the content that was worked on in Public Oral Health, acknowledged that the way their professors approached the issue was appropriate, noted the positive aspects of the SUS, and saw a real prospect of entering this field of work. However, most of them are more interested in traditional clinical activities, even while considering entering the SUS. This is possibly driven by the large amount of clinical subjects offered by the colleges of Dentistry. In order for the SUS to be effective, it is essential to get health professionals involved in strengthening social control, particularly in the alliance with the population and in service management. Because of this, training in Dentistry must deepen its discussion regarding those factors and about the enhanced clinic perspective, allowing the achievements made by the SUS to afford concrete benefits both to healthcare professionals, while performing their function of transforming the social reality, and to the population in the conquest of their constitutional rights.
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