APROPIACIÓN TECNOLÓGICA COMO RECURSO EN EL MANEJO DE CONDUCTA PARA LA CONSULTA ODONTOLÓGICA DE PACIENTES CON AUTISMO.

In the dental care of patients with Autism Spectrum Disorder, pharmacological and non-pharmacological strategies are used, which seek to manage behavior and anxiety, especially in children, in order to avoid abandoning treatment, since it has a negative impact on their oral health. At present, Information and Communication Technologies are presented as tools that can be used effectively in the office; In this sense, this research aims to describe technological appropriation as a resource in behavior management for the dental consultation of patients with autism. For the methodological development, a descriptive study with a documentary design was carried out, articles were selected in which experimental and in vitro designs and review articles were applied; The bibliographic search was carried out through the PubMed, Scielo and Redalyc databases, a total of 5212 were obtained, after a review process based on the established criteria, they were reduced to 7 full-text publications. The results show that, although it is a field in development, there are experiences of technological appropriation in the dental care of patients with autism, in which the conventional use of ICT has transcended to generate new practices, which, on the one hand, improve communication. patient-dentist and adaptation to the environment, and on the other, they reduce the anxiety levels of patients allowing the development of treatments. It is concluded that in the process of technological appropriation it constitutes an effective tool for managing the behavior of the patient with ASD in the dental office, rather than a substitution of conventional behavior management techniques, what is sought is an integration of the same to the resources offered by ICT. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]