Study of dentistry as a science of life

Abstract

This article aims at reflecting on the construction of the identity of the mouth that permeates ethics, poetics, aesthetics and politics in face of some bioethical mandates. A bibliographic consultation from Scielo and Lilacs database, of articles published in domestic and international journals, as well as from most important textbooks published in the past years. It describes mouth as a territory marked by each individual’s personal history, been a

border checkpoint for contacting other individual. It discusses mouth as integral part of the body performing major physiological functions, which are not reduced just to chewing, breathing and speech, but in expressing feelings as well. Finally, it considers that for due study of Dentistry, while science of life, it must exceed the biological dimension focused in the anatomic and physiological features of craniofacial complex , to an understanding of the individual, in his fullness, in a praxis that valuates both the academic space in the integral professional training and society in the defense of the life.