COMMUNITY ODONTOLOGY AND FAMILY HEALTH STRATEGY IN DISCUSSION

This article discusses the way how members of a family, living in a socially vulnerable community, perceive their own health and the community dental practices performed by the Family Health Strategy. The context of the study is the axis on the condition of life of the care model, as recommended by the National Policy of Buccal Health that foresees the approach of the population from their familiar universe and from the social relations experienced in the territory. It is a social study of qualitative, exploratory and descriptive approach carried out in a municipality of Santa Catarina by means of collective interview and adjusted thematic analysis.  By means of the category “Bonds in a community cultural reality”, the data analysis revealed that both health and community dental practices are perceived through relations that express the subalternity, the intersubjectivity, the willingness to work, the bond with the evangelical church, life through arts, and sexual violence. The conclusion drawn is that materialization of the model of care, through the axis life conditions of the communities, requires the problematization of professional certainties generated by the hegemonic production of a technical scientism detached from the real life of vulnerable families.