A importância do cirurgião-dentista frente à violência doméstica

Abstract

Domestic violence, whether in women or children, happens more and more and health professionals, especially dentists, can face these victims, witnessing head and neck injuries (visible and noticeable most of the time) . The objective is to talk about domestic violence against women and children and its prevalence, measures to prevent something more serious from happening, such as femicide and sexual abuse against children; the law and what can be done when it is proven that domestic violence occurs. As a methodology, articles in the main databases such as pubmed, sciolo were used. As a result, several researches related to the subject were found, with great foundation, prevalence, indexes and laws.