Resiliência, cardiologia, odontologia interdisciplinar e social / Resilience, cardiology, and interdisciplinary and social dentistry

Fatores psicossociais e aspectos comportamentais dos pacientes com doenças cardiovasculares e/ou orais interferem na maior ou menor motivação à adesão e ao cumprimento das recomendações médicas e odontológicas para cuidados essenciais de saúde, tais como tomar os devidos medicamentos, manter o autocultivo diário dos bons hábitos, cumprir atividades salutogênicas orientadas que reverberem bem-estar e saúde, desde simples ações como tomar um pouco de sol diariamente até ações mais elaboradas como incluir disciplina e, por exemplo, mais dedicação aos ritmos diários, atividades físicas e maior atenção ao autocuidado e ao padrão comportamental. Nessa perspectiva, a saúde do indivíduo inclui sua capacidade de ação e de adaptação resiliente em resposta aos estímulos que recebe do meio em que vive e se relaciona. Consideramos a vida em sociedade, as trocas afetivas, culturais e atividades em grupo importantes pilares para promoção de saúde porque geram movimento e estímulo a mudanças comportamentais. A relação multiprofissional entre cardiologista e equipe interdisciplinar antroposófica é um essencial aporte tanto dentro de distintas áreas da saúde e afins, como dentro da mesma profissão no caso entre a odontologia hospitalar e a odontologia antroposófica. O bom trabalho técnico-profissional com equipe interdis-ciplinar, usando linguagens apropriadas sob visão sistêmica, busca promover um vínculo profissional para considerar a totalidade do ser humano que existe por detrás daquele paciente que vem em busca de cura; a quem, todavia, deve-se perguntar se existe real e sincero propósito de se curar. Os fatores que mantêm as pessoas com maior gestão sobre seu bem-estar geram, em grande escala, reflexo positivo ao coletivo. Não existe saúde social sem saúde individual.

Silício e cálcio: uma abordagem antroposófica / Silicon and calcium: an anthroposophic approach

Os elementos químicos são o resultado da atuação de forças espirituais arquetípicas, em tempos passados da evolução terrestre. Tais forças podem ser despertadas mediante processos farmacêuticos específicos. Toda forma de vida manifesta-se em polaridades: um conflito entre opostos, e uma contínua busca pela harmonia. Silício (Si) e cálcio (Ca) formam uma polaridade, visivelmente expressa em suas características e aplicações. Da mesma forma, os seres vivos apresentam uma polaridade entre consciência e vitalidade. As doenças são decorrentes do desequilíbrio entre estes dois polos. O medicamento antroposófico é o portador das forças da natureza capazes de restabelecer o equilíbrio.(AU)

Chemical elements are expression of the activity of spiritual archetypal forces, in remote eras of Earth evolution. Such forces can be aroused with the help of specific pharmaceutical processes. Every form of life expresses itself in polarities: a conflict between opposites, and a continuous search for harmony. Silicon (Si) and calcium (Ca) form a polarity, visibly expressed in their characteristics and applications. Likewise, living beings present a polarity between consciousness and vitality. Diseases result from imbalance of these poles. The anthroposophic medicinal product contents the natural forces capable of restoring balance.(AU)

Pain and disease according to integral anthroposophical dentistry.

From an academic standpoint, the university format, in general, has been nurturing a "paradigm of expertise" and, consequently, the relationship between specialties has declined. The upshot is that recent college dental graduates have adopted a clinical performance focusing on system parts and their specificities, in detriment to a more comprehensive view of the mouth and of the patient as a whole, with his/her vital, emotional and individual attributes. An interaction between the several different areas of human knowledge is needed imminently to decrease the dichotomy in professional behavior, because the demand for professionals and dental patients interested in a more comprehensive approach are increasing day by day. Patients want to know: "What, in fact, is behind the etiological extrinsic and intrinsic factors that maintain neuropathic pain, recurrent thrush, or persistent halitosis," among other questions, "even under the care of a dentist?" or "Why is this disease affecting me?" There are several issues composing the paradigm of salutogenesis: What are the essential aspects that constitute a healthy individual, overlapping the usual investigation: How to destroy, avoid and quell the pathological agents? A proposed approach is based on salutogenesis, which examines such issues. According to this approach, anthroposophical dentistry includes determinant factors, determinants of health, basic research and the development of oral health promotion, thus connecting dental academia with integrative thinking, while also complementing and gathering information that subsidizes basic research with the primordial concepts on laws governing the parameters involved in the vital processes of nature.

Pain and disease according to integral anthroposophical dentistry

From an academic standpoint, the university format, in general, has been nurturing a "paradigm of expertise" and, consequently, the relationship between specialties has declined. The upshot is that recent college dental graduates have adopted a clinical performance focusing on system parts and their specificities, in detriment to a more comprehensive view of the mouth and of the patient as a whole, with his/her vital, emotional and individual attributes. An interaction between the several different areas of human knowledge is needed imminently to decrease the dichotomy in professional behavior, because the demand for professionals and dental patients interested in a more comprehensive approach are increasing day by day. Patients want to know: "What, in fact, is behind the etiological extrinsic and intrinsic factors that maintain neuropathic pain, recurrent thrush, or persistent halitosis," among other questions, "even under the care of a dentist?" or "Why is this disease affecting me?" There are several issues composing the paradigm of salutogenesis: What are the essential aspects that constitute a healthy individual, overlapping the usual investigation: How to destroy, avoid and quell the pathological agents? A proposed approach is based on salutogenesis, which examines such issues. According to this approach, anthroposophical dentistry includes determinant factors, determinants of health, basic research and the development of oral health promotion, thus connecting dental academia with integrative thinking, while also complementing and gathering information that subsidizes basic research with the primordial concepts on laws governing the parameters involved in the vital processes of nature.