Medeiros Júnior, AntonioAlves, Maria do Socorro Costa FeitosaNunes, Jussara de PaivaCosta, Iris do Céu Clara2020-10-062020-10-062005MEDEIROS JUNIOR, Antonio et al. Experiência extramural em hospital público e a promoção da saúde bucal coletiva. Revista de Saúde Pública, v. 39, n.2, p. 305-310, 2005. ISSN 1518-8787. Disponivel em: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0034-89102005000200024&lng=pt&tlng=pt. Acesso em: 20 abr. 2018.1518-8787https://repositorio.ufrn.br/handle/123456789/30288Objective: To describe a teaching aid activity aimed at providing experience for promoting collective oral health to graduating dental students. Methods: This experience was based on the evaluation of students’ performance as oral health educators as they had, among other duties, to motivate inpatients and their families to practice healthy habits aiming at a comprehensive and more human care of hospitalized patients. Results: The results show that oral hygiene was incorporated into hospital routine, evidenced by the differences between baseline and final dental biofilm indices (1.72 and 1.17, respectively). Using the U-Mann-Whitney test, this difference was extremely significant (p<0.001) and reveals that mother-child were highly motivated with respect to oral hygiene. Conclusions: It is concluded that teaching-learning experiences derived from interdisciplinary and interdisciplinary activities have allowed for a better understanding of the healthdisease process by dental students. It is also an opportunity for learning about planning and implementing education-prevention activities, which complement these students’ technical-professional experience and promotes social sensitivity, which is essential to professional training.Acesso AbertoSaúde bucalPromoção da saúdeHigiene bucal, educaçãoCuidados primários de saúdeEducação em saúde bucalHospitais públicosEstudantes de odontologiaarticle10.1590/S0034-89102005000200024