Mouth-dental injuries in women violence victims: a pilot study of registered cases in the Legal Medical Institute of Belo Horizonte, MG

Revista Brasileira de Epidemiologia

Radicchi, Ronaldo³  Moraes, Maria Antonieta Siqueira²  Santana, Judith Sena da Silva¹  Araújo, Tânia Maria¹  Rezende, Edson José Carpintero⁴ 

[1] Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana;Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais;Associação Brasileira de Odontologia;Universidade Estadual de Montes Claros

关键词: Violence against women;    Domestic violence;    Mouth-dental injuries;   

DOI  :  10.1590/S1415-790X2007000200008

学科分类：过敏症与临床免疫学

来源: SciELO

【 摘 要 】

Violence has been a growing problem in the past years in Brazil. Violence against women has become clearer to society after victims started filing accusations of aggression. This study aims to describe data on lesions in women, victims of aggression in the region of the mouth, sent to the Dental Sector of the Legal Medical Institute in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil. The records and verdicts of the section from January 2001 to June 2002 were analyzed, when 108 women were seen. Ages ranged mostly between 20 and 39 (70.4%). Most of them reported being single (63.0%); 24% were housemaids; 21.3% were housewives; 14% worked in the commerce; and 48.1% came from the countryside. Victims from the Sectional Police Station were more frequent than those from the Women's Police Station. The most frequent lesion in soft tissues was laceration; in the hard tissues and in the pulp, there were enamel and dentin fractures without complications; concussions prevailed in the periodontal tissues; two lesions in bone tissues were observed. Results pointed out toward the need to take special care in the collection of data during forensic exams in order to better understand the situations related to violence against women; it also showed that the lesions studied are frequent, growing in numbers and represent a major demand for public health dentistry services.

【 授权许可】

CC BY