Resumen

OD. NELLY, R  y  GALARRAGA, R. THE HEALTH CONCEPT COMPLEXITY VIEW THROUGH THE DISCREPANCY IN THE DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT IN ORTHODONTICS PATIENTS OF THE CENTRAL UNIVERSITY OF VENEZUELA. Acta odontol. venez [online]. 2003, vol.41, n.1, pp.23-31. ISSN 0001-6365.

SUMMARY The Orthodontics, specialty of the dentistry that conforms per se a science, is part of the multiple disciplines that contribute to materialize the complex concept of health, which every day seems more attached to each person's harmony with itselve and with its context, which is expressed in the bibliographical revision included in this investigation. Attached to the taxonomy, orthodontists invariably classifies our patients consolidating a diagnosis, expression of a broken into fragments knowledge, that abstracts a part of the orofacial anatomy, in order to drive them to an ideal. This revision is product of the way on we made our practice and the contradiction that takes consistency, thanks to surveys that channel the disagreement of strong positions, where the patients are excluded of the process transdisciplinary that today represents a tendency in the health area, calling us to think on a new less Cartesian and more complex paradigm. The objective of this work, consists on expressing in a critic way the weaknesses of a model of attention, based on the discrepancies that exist between the diagnosis and the treatment plan, applied to a group of orthodontic patients of the U.C.V., according to the opinion of a group of graduated students in orthodontic. This analysis will express, that taken a risk of arriving to summations based on data resources, that drives us to take the patients as objets, making of the orthodontics a more isolated specialty of the health concept. Acknowledgments: The author wishes to thank to Od. Olga González Blanco, M.Sc and to the graduated students in 1999-2001 and 2000-2002 orthodontic course U.C.V.

Palabras clave : Health; Orthodontics; Complexity.