Odontologia e saúde mental: experiência do PET Saúde no Centro de Atenção Psicossocial Álcool e Drogas

In order to discuss the importance of multi-professional experiences and the innovation role of the PET - Saude in academic training, this article reports on the experience PET - Odontology of UFPA  with the multi-professional team of a CAPS AD located in the city of Belem / PA, besides evaluating the oral health conditions of chemical dependents. The experience showed the integration among the different professionals and motivated the development of the students' abilities to the planning of integrated and creative actions of health promotion, through active methodologies, pointing out new directions of health care, centered on the logic of the community reality and not only in the clinical environment. The activities carried out by the Dentistry team were integrated with the workshops and groups developed at the unit, such as cooking and cooking workshops and garden care, which provided moments of education in oral health. Was made dynamics and wheels of conversations, and the users are active agents in the process of shared knowledge construction. "D-day at CAPS AD" occurred, in which users participated in supervised brushing activity and were examined by medical and dental staff, collecting clinical information. It is considered that the interaction between teaching, service and community enhanced by PET – Saude leads health education to a new profile in which professionals become better able to respond to users' needs and act in a shared way in different scenarios.