30) Dentists treat children of the hill inside the schools

TOWN OF SIERRA, the Holy Spirit, BRAZIL - The teeth damaged still is a problem that affects many children under six years of age. They exchanged nor the teeth and already suffering from pain, bad breath, and at times must go through a extraction, not to endanger the teeth that still will be born.

The lack of information about appropriate care with oral hygiene of children and to the lack of access to products of personal hygiene are the main motivating this reality. Therefore, in the municipality of the hill, the dentists will in public schools for teaching children to do the treatment and guide the students.

The numbers frighten. In 2000, more than 80% of children of the city, in this age group had already cariogenic. After the dentists came to visit the school, this percentage dropped to 47%, according epidemiological survey conducted last year. Before starting treatment for cleaning and restoration, the students attended lectures on health and attend oral hygiene, learn to brush your teeth in an appropriate manner and still receive kits with pulp and brush the teeth and thong. Then, all the children are tested, and those with cariogenic, undergo special treatment, without the use of drills and without the need for anesthesia. They do not feel pain and are happy with the result.

The small Leandra Aguiar Pereira, in five years, has the treatment here Wednesday. It was with a broken tooth, but said he has already learned how to do from now on. "I can only take ice cream after lunch and then I have to brush the teeth. The treatment was successful because I only have five years and all my cousins have damaged teeth, but I can not be like them, "said Leandra. The dentist Flávia Teubner, who participates in the program, emphasized that children learn easily and also pass the information to their parents and siblings.

The dentist explained that the contribution of the family in the prevention of diseases of the teeth is vital. The oral hygiene should start as soon as the child is born, with the cleaning of the gums. Once the teeth grow, they must be cleaned after every meal. Flávia explained that the health of the tooth of milk will define the quality of the permanent teeth.

Gazeta on Line

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It is the registration and bring down quickly the problems of the teeth in children. Prevention and education are the key weapons for the prevention of diseases. There is sense of the political and to implement policies for prevention from the first years of schooling of children. The Portuguese children so expect; missing know until when?

Gerofil

29) Testimony young in the first person

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I know that I was told by a family doctor, then (end of the seventies) to the query of "dentist" - the Health Center of Alandroal I remember that moved a "dentist" of Elvas. Generally there were twelve to fifteen people to be served in a morning, when the dentist came just go to form an orderly queue and play to take an injection (anesthesia) - I think the same syringe used to inject everyone. Shortly after starting the extractions…

I do not remember any other types of consultation there charged; only if there were - extractions (no cleaning or other treatments). At the end of two hours they were all "treaties" and although there would be the "dentist".

I would have my twelve to thirteen years, the treatments that made me such a dentist were solely to extract teeth-never done a radius X or any other type of oral treatment. If after ten minutes could not draw me a root or a tooth, the dentist "marked me a new query for eight or fifteen days later, so a root harder to extract took sometimes three or four "sessions", ie more than a month to be extracted. I do not know exactly why I tired of both go there and never have finished the treatment (consisting solely to do extractions); also never seen such that the "dentist" make or had any written record of the treatments that was - was all along, or they were children, adults or elderly.

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28) City of the Feira: Dentists give free support to young

About three dozen young people of the county of Santa Maria da Feira already benefited from the support of free dental medicine under the "Service Anchor", the project Rights & Challenges, and that part is already over the treatment, and now, 17 users they are still in service, shows the Board of the Feira.

The list of waiting has some of 30 youths and adults enrolled. To support the implementation of this free at the level of dental medicine, the project Rights & Challenges established protocols of cooperation with three medical dentists who are making a dental treatment in young indicated by institutions / projects of social intervention of the county. Through these protocols, the "Service Anchor" provides the necessary materials and dentists offer their services.

Considering the magnitude of the problem of dental cariogenic of many children and young people at risk social and economic difficulties in their families minimize it, the Rights & Challenges calls to other doctors dentists of the county to join this project, contributing thus, for the physical well-being and self-esteem of many children and young people of the county.

The "Service Anchor" intended as a response to social emergency for the families of the county of Santa Maria da Feira showing persistent poverty, enabling an immediate response to situations of high risk, which forms the support level of dental medicine. This service will also with a resource center for Health, with articles for the rehabilitation and continuing care, which are assigned as a loan to needy families, and the institutions that carry out work in this area.

O Primeiro de Janeiro

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An example of what must be done to the municipal level. This is also my contribution to the dissemination of this initiative.

Gerofil

27) Gomera / Canary Islands

Health performs works of improvement and adaptation in the unit for 25,000 euros Dentistry - The Ministry of Health of the Canary Islands government, through the Health Services Management Area Health of La Gomera, has made improvement and adaptation works in the current Unit Dentistry, enabling thereby expand the capacity of intervention this specialty, both in the dental and nursing with a consequent benefit to the citizens of the island.

The unit, located in the old Health Center of San Sebastian, has been with this initiative, the possibility of improving clinical equipment such as new equipment dental extraction adding pieces to existing, new equipment sterilization, carriage of cardiac arrest , among others.

It also creates a new space for administrative development and management fully computerized that allows access to computerized analytical and from the Service Laboratory Hospital Our Lady of Guadeloupe.

From the Health Services Management, believes that since the Unit, which serves approximately over 1,741 adults each year, go with it, improved and guaranteed care, allowing health professionals to work with greater safety and quality.

On the other hand, and from the Management warranted improvements and adaptations, are also supported by the importance of Oral Health Program that takes place in schools. The intervention through this program, affects about 677 children each school year, that program because of its importance and deployment on the island, has enabled significant changes thanks to the preventive treatment to address problems in caries, as well as treatments made in gums.

Another aspect that is served after the improvements, is the promotion of oral health education through various lectures and symposia organized by professionals such unit in schools on the island, whose goal is to get themselves acquiring school hygiene habits and a healthy diet continue to cooperate in maintaining the health of the same.

To that end, the Management, has valued the importance of the unit can also provide new units of the existing training in the same center, with the technical elements and pedagogical enabling or facilitating the work of professionals.

Canárias 24 horas

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It is not exactly the geographical origin of the most important news of this post, what matters Rather, they see how it is out there for the authorities see the need for oral health as a priority investment, trying to ensure that service to the entire population.

For now, we are still far from satisfy the needs of the population. Until when? Are the authorities have not yet grasped the urgent need to respond to this public health problem? I hope that, somehow, with this Blog draw the attention of national public opinion that this problem needs urgent resolution in our country.

Gerofil

26) Smiling gives Health

City Council Cascais, in ordinary meeting of September 4, among other matters, ruled:

Give the Core of Estoril Portuguese Red Cross a fee of 5 thousand euros, to support the "Smiling gives Health". With the aim of promoting oral health, this program has, initially, perform screenings and then ensure dental treatment to children deprived of the neighborhoods of Novo do Pinhal, Galiza, Liberdade and Fim do Mundo.

This program covered last year 112 children and young people, aged 6 and the 14 years.

Desporto na Linha

25) ORAL HEALTH: More some practical examples developed in Brazil

Project will prevent treatment of the teeth in students (Crossroads South, Brazil) - The Secretary of Education crossroads of South launched the project smiling for the future, with the partnership of local schools for teaching basic and early childhood education, with the dentist Denis Ferraz da Silva and with the teacher José Ronaldo Kapczynski. They received training for the deployment of activity in the municipality. The Secretary of Education, Culture and Sport, Solismar Ribeiro Figueiró, explains that the work is a partnership of local government, through the portfolios of Education, Health and Social Service Trade (Sesc).

The project's goal is to develop, with students of the municipality, various actions of the character preventive oral health. They will be met children enrolled in the level B of early childhood education and 1 st to 4 th years of fundamental education.

The intent of the work is to prevent damaged teeth and gingival diseases through education and awareness of the child for self with health and, by consequence, to stimulate self-esteem, teaching a technique for cleaning and use of the thong. The activity will also challenge the skills manual for health through daily practice, providing topical application of fluoride and adopting appropriate diet.

In this line of work, the other novelty of the project smiling for the future is the use of a special technique that aims to answer the larger number of students, using minimal resources and does not need the use of dental office, but only some of the training and equipment . The mayor Artigas Teixeira da Silveira stressed that the work is one of several tools of public health outlined by the current administration.

Gazete do Sul

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Pilot Project of Preven-so is deployed in units of primary education in Cubatão, Brazil-Reduce the incidence of teeth damaged and reach the indexes set by the World Health Organization (WHO) as ideal for 2010. This is the objective of the Program on Education and Prevention in Health, Oral-Preven-so, established several years ago by the Municipal Bureau of Health in kindergartens and schools of early childhood education in the city. Now, the program will also meet other age group, is extending to the students of basic education.

The pilot project was initially implemented in Emef Father Antonio Olivieri, in the Garden Casqueiro, benefiting more than 600 students. In the afternoon of last Monday (28/08), plus a school-Emef Usina Henry Borden has been benefited. There, about 390 students won oral hygiene kit and went to have supervised cleaning of teeth. According to those responsible for the program, the soon-as Preven also will be deployed in Emef Luiz Gustavo de Lima, in Vila Christmas, thus covering more than 1,400 students.

The implementation of the project is made by the Technical Group, Oral Health in partnership with the Municipal Bureau of Education. The Preven-so allows the resumption of the habit of cleaning the teeth that many students lose to join the primary school. Survey done by technicians proved that, by not having the intimate relationship between teachers and students as it is in kindergartens and in teaching children, the routine dde clean the teeth is lost. Another factor that contributes to this is the continuing awakening of the sense of shame in children, as their age developments.

The program also counts with the participation of voluntary associations of parents and teachers (APMs) and monitors the class. Students receive an oral hygiene kit containing a dental school child of soft bristles, a tube of cream and a roll of dental thong. The kit is kept in the school itself for the exclusive use of the student and must be used every day after lunch. The evaluation of the program is done every three months, when the technical team going in the units to investigate the results obtained using the technique of highlighting of bacterial plaque.

Depending on the results, as Preven-will be extended to all schools of basic education of the municipality, which will allow even greater reduction of the indices for the epidemiological diseases bucais more common.

Prefeituria Municipal de Cubatão

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Anyone who has followed this blog will already have been realized as local authorities and central Portugal and Brazil assume postures differentiated on the oral health of the population, in this case it seems that we, Portuguese, we still have much to understand with the work currently in Brazil.

I hope that these posts serve as a warning so that we create also in Portugal policies that allow that any Portuguese citizen can enjoy time of oral health services, regardless of their social condition.

Gerofil

24) Point of View

For almost all the people there are essentially three times in the year when you think of the past and the future prospect is, outlining from then onwards, new objectives and targets. One is the changing seasons of the year, another is on our anniversary (may be simultaneous with one of the other) and the last case at the time of holidays.

We are therefore at the time of trying to fix past mistakes and seek to improve several points that we consider essential to our well-being and the people around us. For example, this may be the ideal time to decide to stop smoking. Increasingly people have managed to abandon a habit that proves it causes serious health problems, so all times are optimal for making this decision.

Another issue that has major impact on general health, both in mental and physical is the increase in weight. However, there is no better time to try to lose some quilitos than this. So why is the season for beach and like to be with good point. The increase in weight and obesity issues are increasingly present.

In recent years we have seen a substantial increase in people fat or obese, a situation resulting from our development, with a consequent increase in the purchasing power and access to goods and facilities that predispõem that this occurs. That is, on one hand we have access to all the food they like, on the other hand, hardly have to make any effort to "burn" some of the calories you eat, because the vast majority of the population has his own car, command of television, lift , ...

The issue of obesity is not only the aspect of the person who is at issue, but also, most importantly, their health. Everyone knows the risks and repercussions several that excess weight poses to the general health of people, an issue that obliges us to think seriously in the care we should have with the food. It is important to know what you should eat, and how to eat. So this is the ideal time to rethink their eating habits. For that you have to try to match its power to exercise that performs daily. Most of the time this will only be possible with the help of specialized technical personnel (doctor, nutritionist) and, with great determination and good sense itself. But it is essential that the strength of will, because the demands and temptations are permanent. Since the parties, the shopping and advertising are enough to discourage all. Incidentally I still have the opinion that the company now has to defend itself of the imbalances that will create.

In the case of food, knowing the negative influence that the "fast-food" has been taking on the health of the people, is beginning to be time to legislate on the subject, hindering its advertising and requiring the payment of additional fees for those who sell these products. Just as is the case with alcohol and tobacco. The cost for the health of the intake of such foods begin to be extremely high, and someone will have to put a brake on this problem.

There is an entire educational task to develop in order to enlighten the people (parents, children, uncles and grandparents) on the power best suited to take. For example, ever notice most parents (grandparents, uncles), as soon as the morning coffee, buy a package of chips and a juice for young children. As you know, it is not only the problem of obesity, but also the greatest risk for other problems appear as cárie dentistry. More nonsense could not do.

Often think that the proper diet does not involve the things that we know better, which is not true. Since it has sufficient knowledge, it is possible to combine a balanced diet. It is more or less what I said about how they should eat the candy to decrease the risk of coming to developing teeth damaged. In this case, it is known that the ingestion of a sweet at the end of the meal is much less harmful than between meals.

So it is not so difficult to trace and try to meet objectives, it is only seeking information is the best way to do it.

MELO PAULO, Medical Dental, Doctor of the Faculty of Dental Medicine of the UP, Member of the board of the Order of Medical Doctors

O Primeiro de Janeiro

23) Babies can be served free

Araçatuba, Brazil - The mothers of babies under one year of age can register their children for free preventive care and educational Baby Clinic conducted by the FOA / Unesp (Faculty of Dentistry of Araçatuba / Universidade Estadual Paulista).

Children need to have up to one year to join the service, which extends up to three years. All the educational work of prevention and healing is done by students of the graduate and post-graduate and professional training that are in place, under the guidance of teachers in the area of pediatric dentistry.

The first activity is to a lecture targeted to parents. On each day are served 50 babies. Consultations occur every two months and, on average, the baby passes through the service six times a year. Mothers receive guidelines for diet and oral hygiene. The teacher Frederick Robson Cunha explains that the three and a half years the babies receive high and are referred to the clinic for the prevention, which are served free until the eight.

All this work pediatric search invest in oral health since childhood, since the activities to prioritize prevention to ensure that the child is a healthy adult.

Folha da Região

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I hope this example "get" here in Portugal.

Gerofil

22) Hospital of Saint Spirit of Angra do Heroísmo (Azores)

doctors stomatology clarify the population

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Duly authorized by the Board of the Hospital of Angra and with knowledge of other doctors of stomatology of autonomic region of the Azores are the undersigned signed provide the following clarification to the population following an interview given by Mr. Chairman of the Order of Doctors Dentists (OMD) to a newspaper of Angra do Heroísmo and the various stories that his official visits and hearings provided then.

There are serious and false accusations made to the Department of Stomatology (SE) of the Hospital of Saint Spirit of Angra do Heroísmo. Just to cite a few, it says be limited, read - is restricted, the attention to certain groups, including the elderly, not the urgency of the specialty duly fulfilled; auferirmos ordered millionaires, ... Communicate is also incorrect information.

We, as briefly as possible, and clarify some other and make some hope. This is wrong:

1. What is "limitation of care at the Hospital of Angra…" actually the SE of the hospital in Angra besides not limit access to your query is still a lack of supply of dentists Health Centers (CS) of the Beach and Angra , running in consultation foreign beyond the work itself, some of what should be done in those CS plus the entire emergency dental and medical and surgical pathology of oral maxillary facial area.

2. "The amount of 432000 euros to annual payment of service to doctors for prevention of stomatology (ME) of the autonomic region of the Azores" actually is very well, perhaps deliberately, in the real value. It is the "discomfort" of the authorities when confronted with such imprecision.

3. What is found "… the uncertainty of care in the Emergency Service (SU) of HSEAH…" actually any citizen who go to the hospital SU is observed by the medical service to understand that contact and ask whether or not the presence of the specialist, that is the call and in the prevention regime, is following strict criteria of urgency.

Doubts are:

1. What the dentists can "… to four times more with the same resources…" nor indeed to the tasks they are currently conferred (with priority attention to children up to fifteen years of the two counties of the island) to fully meet that will… the emergency dental and maxillo facial trauma for which they have no jurisdiction…

2. What were "pioneers of dental medicine in the Azores…" indeed even before his group had any medical professional dentists in the archipelago to make dentistry, art dental or dental medicine, but now is called, in addition to other medical condition the oral and surgical equipment. It was the Department of Stomatology of Angra the first to open up the schools complementary part in the region. Will want to be "pioneers" at the national level of its triumphal entry in hospitals through the epicenter of the Third doing in the Azores prior trials ?

3. "What… a doctor-dentist (MD) is a doctor as any other…" actually do a degree in that the first three years have chairs basic common with the course of medicine but then derived for the area dental chairs not making the fundamental the medicine going from first years, the diseases and their treatments. There are also internships general hospital nor of expertise. They are not licensed in medicine but in the call-Dental Medicine, which, for example in Spain, has its equivalent in Dentistry and the American Dental gives the title. The doctors of stomatology make the six-year degree in medicine, followed probationary hospital, often clinical general, the specialty home, evidence of rising public career, and so on., And naturally entered the Order of Doctors as Dermatologists or Cardiologists. The Dentists, like other health professionals, such as Pharmacists, Nurses, etc. Have their own professional Order.

It is surprising:

1. The following sentence uttered by Mr. Chairman of OMD - "that each doctor of stomatology that skirt and she retires, will be replaced by a dentist." What I intend to propose to the authority is inconsistent with the whole speech that perpassa the interview in question and by all the others that we recently have been provided to the representative of OMD in the Azores. The average age of doctors of stomatology in the region walk by forty-five years. According to the law is expected to become the service between ten and fifteen years. It will be realistic and consequent such a proposal, or expect that we end the career advance ?

2. What Mr. Chairman ache "extremely negative the existence simultaneously not peaceful between the two professional groups" It is public and well known that the attacks to doctors of stomatology from dentists, particularly in the County of Angra, have been repeated cyclically to shiver of good rules of ethics and ethics, often using the controversy on this issue as a weapon of political pitch whose purposes are clear. Again, now the voice of his most representative, rather than embrace the path of dialogue and collaboration, which we have always been open and whose usefulness, especially for patients, it is unquestionable, come to a new attack on a sector that it is part of the Regional Health Service.

It is hoped:

- From the tutelage a clarification to the public about the functioning of the Medical Dental Centers in Health and Services of Stomatology, particularly that of Angra, who is unjustly accused, as well as their professional, in breach of his duty.

- The appointment by the Portuguese. Mr Secretary for Social Affairs of a Commission to study the issues involved in oral health in the Autonomous Region of the Azores.

- That this time the doctors of stomatology and maxillo facial surgeons can be heard, because they and the public and private sides will also, in addition to its systemic impact, the health of the mouth, teeth and jaw of the population of the Azores.

Bruno Walter Ferreira, José Manuel Rosa and Valentim Araújo

Diário Insular

21) Technical integration of bone, 80% of attendances free

Bauru, S. Paulo (Brazil) - Opened for almost a year, but running since January, the Office Branemark, which Bauru become a world reference in the technical integration of bone, which allows recover parts of the body uniting bones and prostheses with the titanium screws, including teeth, have a challenge ahead: meet the around 4 thousand people are on the waiting list.

People who do not have any teeth and the victims of mutilations caused by accidents or diseases such as cancer and bad-training are priorities. The operations are done by volunteer doctors and dentists who are displaced from various parts of Brazil.

By law, 80% of attendances have to be free.

Jornal da Cidade de Bauru

20) Hypothesis to leave the most beautiful smile

Santa Cruz do Sul, Brazil - One of the biggest moved the 6 th Imperafest was the bus with stomatology office of the prefecture, in which consultations were provided free to all who asked. It was an opportunity for the children learn the techniques of cleaning the teeth and the care that must have to stay healthy with a smile. Adults also not lost a chance to make a visit to the dentist.

Gazeta do Sul

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Here is how the municipalities in Brazil invest in the health of its citizens. It is a shame that so many elected officials choose the Portuguese to Brazil as a tourist destination does not have a minimum of intelligence to copy here for the good examples that are made there.

Gerofil

19) Up to 7 years old

Did you know to be parents to brush your teeth and maintain the cleanliness of the language, in the case of children up to 7 years of age?

Gerofil

18) Students visit to the post of Family Health

Student council

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Students from the 8 th series of the School Municipal Willibaldo Michel, the High Spanish, inside of Valley of the Sun, made a visit to the post of Family Health (PSF) Anita Garibaldi, the High Trombudo, last week, to check the work that is developed in unity.

The activity is part of the shares of the project's Board of Council, called the Student Session. The young participants engaged in symbolic form, the work of the council and therefore are investigating some municipal services management.

Initially, the nurse Carla Simone de Oliveira Bopp said that the team is formed by a doctor, a nurse, technician, nurse, a dental assistant from office, a dentist and seven community health agents, who work from Monday to Friday. The nurse stressed that the team serves, currently, 497 families from the mountain region and the whole program is aimed at the prevention of disease, which goes far beyond healing practices. One of the goals is to inform the community charge and actions that seek to improve the quality of life of the family.

Gazeta do Sul

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Of interest: instead of being the technicians of health to go to schools, young people are invited to go to units of health.

Gerofil

17) Teams make home visits

Lages (Santa Catarina, BRAZIL) - According to repassados by the Municipal Bureau of Health, Oral care, the program has gained prominence with the community. They are 18 teams entered in 33 teams of the Family Health Program (PSF). The workload is of 40 hours per week and the teams operate in neighborhoods Guaruja, Saint Helena, Tribute, San Pedro, Santa Catarina, Santa Monica, Petrópolis, Gethal, Penha and San Carlos.

According to the municipal secretary of Health, Heron Anderson de Souza, the teams develop activities of home visits and care for groups of pregnant, hypertensives and diabetics. "Inside the city we have office car that meets at various locations. It is a real laboratory of itinerant dentistry, "says Heron. The team's work, Oral PSF is a dentist and a dental assistant from office.

The teams meet on average 2,400 people a month. "The department's Ready Municipal Dental Care serves emergency cases and works in area attached to the Ready Relief Tito Bianchini. This is a service that gains prominence with the community" Heron stresses.

WebLages.com

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Initiatives that are also extremely lacking in Portugal. We hope to see.

Gerofil

16) Prostheses and appliances will be donated (Note: this is not in Portugal)

The Prefecture of Joao Pessoa will offer appliances and dental prostheses, free of charge, for the low-income population of the municipality. People with problems of occlusion in the dental arcade will be benefited with the placement of the apparatus, beyond monitoring of the entire treatment.

The Secretariat of Health of the Municipality will make a consultancy with the support of the oral health technicians from the Ministry of Health in order to define the age group that will have priority in attendance. According to the director of the Center for Dental Specialties (CEO), Danilson da Cruz, the idea is to prioritize the care for the most serious cases in children and pre-adolescents. The screening will be done via the Family Health Units.

The forecast is deploying the service until the end of this year. Danilson said John Person has a network of primary care in oral health composed by 180 teams, each made up of a dentist and one of Consultório Dental Assistant (ACD). For each unit of the Family Health Program (PSF), said there is a team of dentistry working eight hours a day, from Monday to Friday. The daily average are 16 attendances per team, according to the director of the CEO.

Among the procedures are included application of fluoride; periodontal treatment (gingiva); prophylaxis (cleaning); extraction and dental restorations. Since 95% of the procedures using resin (the color of the tooth).

The first competition of Smile School, promoted by SMS, will elect the five students with the best smiles of the 1 st to 4 th series of teaching basic public network. Among the requirements are to participate in workshops of the "Action Odonto-educational," be from the public, does not have carie and have good school performance. Registration is open until the 15th of September.

Jornal da Paraíba
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There is not a single day that come to us examples in the implementation of policies for oral health, when we speak of Brazil. For now, it would be rather interesting to know what the politicians able to have equal gestures not interested by their countrymen.

Unfortunately, looking at the national picture, which does not lack there are unscrupulous politicians that the cost of taxes that we all pay, are dedicated to major festivals and tours by air free for people of the third age, but there are forgotten what the poorer both need: positive discrimination in the quality of access to health care (because it is so the strength of our current democracy, expressed in the votes during the elections).

Gerofil

15) Island of Madeira and Porto Santo: Dental Medicine with more consultations, of course

The number of consultations of dental medicine in the health center of Porto Santo, will increase in the next month of October, found the JM. When we mentioned, instead of the current three days, the port-santenses will be made available to dentists in the health unit, for four days a week (Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays).

If to say that the residents in Porto Santo will have more reason to smile. It is recalled that since the Regional Oral Health Program has been implemented in the Region, in 1997, the problems related to carie dental, and especially the children, have been decreasing significantly in some counties. But, in Porto Santo, the situation has remained more or less equal, and that children aged six and the 9 years are those that have made the most damaged teeth.

Please note that the council of Porto Santo is the only one of the Region, which provides oral health and also dental medicine at the health center location.

Jornal da Madeira
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Here is another example that takes too long to become normal in any Health Center on the mainland. For some reason it makes sense there autonomic regions ...

Gerofil

14) Search UnB cariogenic relates to the production of saliva

One of the factors directly associated with the increase of cariogenic is the low flow of saliva. This relationship has been proven in a study at the University of Brasilia (UnB) by Soraya Leal, teacher of the Department of Dentistry (ODT) of the institution.

"The world scientific literature is inconclusive about the relationship of saliva with the cariogenic," said Soraya the agency FAPESP. "By this account, we show that relationship in practice, by means of laboratory tests on 60 children," he says.

Of the 35 children who had no teeth damaged, all had salivary flow between normal and high. However, the other 25 that had damaged teeth had little saliva. The researchers have yet to review systematically through databases on the Internet, with articles on the subject published in international scientific journals. "Based on 70 scientific work we find that the probability of the individual submitting cárie is much greater when the production of saliva is less than 1 milliliter per minute," said Soraya.

The study of UnB also found the relationship between teeth damaged with the pH of saliva. In children who had salivary pH neutral, between 6 and 7, the problem has not been identified. Meanwhile, the cariogenic were more frequent in children who had a saliva more acidic, with pH less than 5.

Soraya explains that to maintain the steady flow of saliva in the mouth and prevent the Streptococcus mutans, the cariogenic bacteria, the individual needs ingest enough water. Another option is the intake of solid foods. As mastigá them requires a greater effort of the salivary glands, the production of saliva has increased.

There are foods, however, that make the Streptococcus mutans prolifere much faster. And as most people already know, sugar is the great villain of cariogenic, "warns the researcher.

According to her, as a natural component of the mouth, the saliva is the first defender against the teeth damaged because of its antimicrobial properties. "If the salivary flow falls, the pH also decreases. And the pH of saliva is responsible for the control of the minerals of the tooth. "

Universia

13) Clinics conducted by the regional health

To the Honorable Secretary of State for Health:

By this I ask the middle that should the report on the complete list of all clinics conducted by the regional health, as part of the National program of oral health and pursuant to Order signed last December.

I undertake to disclose the list of clinics to all schools of education to ensure equal access of all children and young people of the country those health care. I am now awaiting the requested information.

Yours sincerely

Gerofil

12) The attention of all primary and secondary schools in Portugal

The National Program Oral Health sets as a goal for 2010 all children between three and 16 years have access to a dentist. An order signed by the Secretary of State for Health, Francisco Ramos, last December, approved the contract of clinics by each Regional Health Administration. The state pay 75 euros for each patient.
According to the Directorate General of Health, 140 thousand children have been treated under programs of this kind. The aim is to extend the service to all of this age and pregnant. The model serves as the clinical testing: a patient goes to a private office, but the expense is archway by the state.
Diário de Notícias (22 de Fevereiro de 2006) Daily News (February 22, 2006)
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Someone disclose or publish the full list of clinics already provide service under this order? I would inform me this list to be published here and sent by email to all schools in the country - the children and young grateful.
Gerofil

11) Apple combat infections of the mouth in an indian village

The apple is being used in an indigenous village of Mato Grosso do Sul and cariogenic to prevent gum disease in the 150 children who live at the site. Every 15 days, the National Health Foundation (Funasa) sends the fruit to the village Cerrito, in Eldorado. The stock managed to reduce to 12% the number of cariogenic among the indians of the village. The use of the fruit is part of the Oral Health Program, developed by Funasa in the villages of the country.

The program also includes specialized meetings and cleaning supervised by dentists every week. The fruit is also part of the school lunch and is being distributed to families indigenous consume at home. The dentist Roselena Caseiro Lopes, who serves on the project, explains that, because of the apple is a fruit consistent, it helps the hygienisation and, it is rich in vitamins, strengthens the teeth. "The food could be the carrot, but chosen by the apple flavor and because children like much," he said.
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10) Guimarães: Half of the children has the teeth damaged

Over fifty per cent of children of Guimarães has the teeth damaged to 6 years, according to a study the Institute of Health of the High Ave (ISAVE). Faculty and students from Institute studied 1,200 children in the District, concluding that, at 3 years, the number of cariogenic does not exceed the 17%. But, from that age and up to 6 years, it hardly suffers greatly increased.
However, in the county, there are already initiatives to counter the teeth damaged such as GUISO - Guimarães the Sorrir, a program of oral health. Alexandra Santos, doctor of Public Health, said that the GUISO aims to 'make the diagnosis of the situation' and see how is the Council towards the targets of the National Program for the Promotion of Oral Health.
The doctor also revealed that studied the snacks for children to make comparisons and identify strategies for schools. "The objective is to correct the food in schools, changing habits of oral hygiene. We want a change of habits in school and hope to continue in the family, "materialized the same prescription.
The World Health Organization (WHO) claims that in 2020, eighty per cent of children under 6 years is free of cárie. Mário Rui Araújo, coordinator of the Course of Oral Hygiene of ISAVE, alert to the fact that they can make huge programs "to change habits but not all are effective." For this to happen, these programs must take into account the reality of the situation, define the targets to intervene, are pedagogically appeal and contarem with the participation of the entire community, from families to teachers, through the local authorities and experts in health.
The ISAVE is located in Povoa do Lanhoso and now has 1,600 students.
O Primeiro de Janeiro The Early January

9) BRAZIL: Children learn the importance of brushing teeth

When will these examples will move to be part of everyday life in Portugal, in the gardens-of-school children and of the first cycle? It is a call for attention to the Minister of Education.
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The doctr - dentist Áurea Bragança Maria dos Santos, was at the Center for Child Rearing Abelhinha Feliz, which held a small lecture to 196 students, aged 1.5 to 5 years, with information on how to brush, because it is important brush, what happens when they do not brush and other important information and to help in creating the habit of brushing your teeth.

Maria Áurea still holds the distribution of brushes and dental fluorine to wash the teeth, making guidelines to children on the care with oral hygiene to prevent cariogenic. "The washing of the teeth is made daily after meals and once daily, washing with fluoride for children from five years of age."

The work is done by professional for nearly 15 years, and the diagnosis of the situation is the considerable decrease, "in the beginning the children had all teeth some cárie, any problems in the teeth of milk, are registered one or two of milk teeth that exhibit cariogenic, "explained Mary Áurea.

For the director of the CIS, Christopher Maria Aparecida da Silva, children learn information about oral hygiene and reproduce for parents, and give that link if the information is accurate.

In work on oral hygiene, will be discussed on the use of the nozzle, which can hinder the growth of the teeth and the structure of teeth mouth, creation of cariogenic and adenoids. "Apart from the nozzle, children enhance the language better," completed Cida. A lecture given by dentist is repeated often between two and three months, "it is through the insistence that children create the habit, for ages children are teaching the need to always brush your teeth and maintain oral hygiene, the older we working ways to the washing of the teeth and cleaning mouth. Educating children about oral health is essential to prevent the cariogenic in adulthood, "concluded Mary Áurea.

The coordination of the CIS in partnership with the dentist, is planning to conduct these talks to parents of children, originally scheduled for October this year, which will be presented all the information about the importance of oral hygiene, the washing of the teeth , fluorine and use of the thong, the reality on the use of chickpeas and other information that will be beneficial to the whole family.
O Barriga Verde (Notícias) The Green Barriga (News)

8) Union denies closure of the urgency of stomatology

The Union of Physicians of the South Zone contests the view of the urgency of stomatology in the Lisbon Central Hospital Center from 20:00 and the end-of-week, which claims to be "the only existing throughout the area south of the country."

Diário Digital Digital Diary

7) Protocol for health school

The protocol for School Health in force was signed by the Minister of Education, Maria de Lurdes Rodrigues, and the Minister of Health, Correia de Campos, February 7, 2006. Doing a careful reading of it, highlights the fact that refers seven times (XXXXXXX) to the sexual health but only once (X) comes to oral health.
Gerofil

6) An example required in all Health Center of the Country

The city of Povoa de Santa Iria has a new Health Center inaugurated on 20 August 2005 by the Prime Minister, Jose Socrates, and the Minister of Health, Antonio Correia de Campos. Among other services highlights is the provision of services of School Health (intervention in primary and secondary schools) and Oral Health (office for child and youth population).

Portal do Governo The government portal

5) Issue relevant

Will children and adolescents are trained in terms of maturity to take responsibility for their oral health? If you are unable to assume this responsibility, who should take them?

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4) One example of our brothers (Extremadura)

More than 28,000 children receive oral health care provided by the Servicio Extremeño de Salud.

Children 6, 7 and 8 years are the beneficiaries of the Child Care Plan de Extremadura (PADIEx) launched in the middle of last year by the SES. As reported by the Board of Extremadura in a note, also in January, incorporates children along this year will meet 6. The Board has noted that between January and June this year have been incorporated in this plan nearly 10,000 boys and girls extremeños born in 2000 and have received some assistance in the slips which includes the relationship of dentists, either SES, and the private sector, whose queries can go to receive assistance under the PADIEx.Así explains the Regional Administration, the new 10,000 children had joined the 19,052 born in the years 1998 and 1999 which began on last year to receive assistance that includes oral treatments core (sealants, fluoride, cleanings, fillings and extractions) and treatments (endodoncias, attention to injuries ....).
The most frequently used treatments are associated with dental education, sealants and fillings. To care for children included in the PADIEx provides care spread of 173 points by the Autonomous Community, dentists attended by both the public and private sectors; 98 located in the province of Badajoz and 75 in Cáceres.
The Board noted that this program is directed dental care to all children residing in the autonomous community who are entitled to health care under the SES. Children begin to receive care when they reach the age of six and remain in the program until 15.
The aim of this initiative is to improve the oral health status of the child population extreme, stressing prevention from an early age and allowing create healthy habits that result in the reduction of certain diseases later in life. In this way, each child who receives assistance through the oral PADIEx have a dental practitioner who is responsible for their oral health and to children who performs an annual review, makes recommendations higiénicos-sanitarias it deems appropriate, apply preventive measures and certain treatments, and also responds to emergency dental they arise. They are not including treatments repairers in primary teeth, or orthodontics.

Other plans of care-Finally, the Board has stressed in his note that in addition to the PDIEX y en lo que se refiere a dental assistance, the Ministry of Health and Consumer Affairs, through the Servicio Extremeño of Health, has launched other specific plans as is the Dental Care Program for Pregnant and Plan of Dental Care for Persons with Disabilities Psíquica (PADDI). The latter was qualified for the Patient Advocacy Association (ADEPA); In its report of 2005 as a major achievement of the health system and an initiative extremeño "laudable and praiseworthy" that "many should take note."
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3) Oral Health in Portugal: More than a question of mentality

About 60% of the Portuguese population has no economic possibilities of dealing with teeth, indicate the numbers, spread the pages of national newspapers. And why people do not have money to treat their teeth not to be able to share with (or so free) by the State?
According to data presented by the Association of Medical Doctors, during the annual conference held in December, one in seven public hospitals has no dentist and the situation is worse in the health centers, where only ten per cent of the units have those specialists. There is, therefore, difficult to conclude that missing dentists in the National Health System. And, for that, it is justified that 98% of specialists pursue their activities in the private sector.
Apart from the struggles that OMD has been halting with the Ministry of Health towards the recruitment of dentists by the NHS, so that the oral health care affordable to all, the reality is another. Much of the Portuguese only uses a dentist when the pain of teeth transtorna them the day-to-day. Jorge Costa, a doctor, dentist and professor at the Faculty of Dental Medicine of Lisbon, knows well this "unfortunate" reality. Many people arriving in his office when little can be done. "You set - and in a manner completely wrong - that is a luxury treat the teeth. Some may go to the dentist ... And the other? 'This question, Jorge Costa, replied immediately: "other emergencies at the hospitals will start the teeth, or solve the problem when there is no solution. 'And pointing: "The oral health is not considered a problem of public health. It is still seen as a question aesthetics, the type: those who want it their ... '
For this expert, interviewed by MNI-Doctors On the Internet, the figures reflect a reality typical of a southern European country. But it also portrays a disclaimer by the government. "As usual we are in the tail of Europe with regard to primary health care. The Portuguese government has not yet understood that it is much cheaper to prevent that nation address. 'This is because, explains the specialist, dental medicine is totally private. "If the government had to do accounts, to know the money they would have to pay for the treatment of diseases that arise, then there begin to concern themselves with the treatment before the problems arise. "It should be noted that awareness campaigns for the Oral Health in Portugal have been made by the faculties of medicine, dentistry to analyze the patients and promoting oral hygiene among smaller, among other functions, and by private entities, linked to a network of specialists, which together promote the " Oral Health Month ", offering to all registered an examination free.
Saúde na Internet Health on the Internet

2) Analysis and reflection on the politics of oral health in Portugal

This Blog to be identified and analyzed the various policies of oral health adopted in Portugal since April 25, 1974. So try raising any material that verse on the subject in order to make a progress report on what has been achieved with those policies and, particularly, which failed-without forgetting who attributed the success merits and determine the responsibilities for those of law by failures.

In the same vein, I want to try to make the existing stock and pointing suggestions and tips to correct the abnormalities that continue to exist in the national territory, particularly in certain regions and especially certain social groups.

I count on the participation of all; Open the e-mail tempogero@gmail.com for receiving contributions.
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1) Oral Health

"Oral Health", the blog on the health of Oral Health in Portugal.
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