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• Adauto Emmerich - EMMERICH, A. - Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo - Fiocruz/ENSP - <adautoemmerich@terra.com.br>

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ABSTRACT

The theoretical perspective of the analysis developed has to do with the fact that the dental knowledge should not be seen as universal target, independently of the reality, but as a participant of its construction. The paper explores the idea symbolized in the colonization of contemporaneous Dentistry knowledge to go beyond the more human than a human. With the example of the increasing pathological halitosis, as an objective disorder not only from the oral health, but that affects people, the work develops an analysis of the (re) invention of pathologies, through visualization technologies, in the late modernity. It concludes that the reliability of the dental knowledge, among the main authors, its discourses and social practices, is never neutral, but always articulated to the interests which are permanently involved. The sense of smell slips from knowledge memory and from space to time and certainly from things to beings. Halitosis is, most of the times, unlikely, mixed, singular, and uncertain in time and place.

Keywords: Collective oral health. Dental Epistemology. Halitosis. Late Modernity.

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