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.

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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