Doctors dentists employed by public services is a challenge common to the two candidates for president of the Chamber of Dentists, although both reaffirm differences with regard to their programmes.
Orlando Monteiro da Silva, current chairman and candidate for a third term in elections of tomorrow for the three year period 2007/2009, said the agency Lusa that were initiated contacts with the structure that leads to reform of health centres for the Family Health Units (new structures of primary care) will follow this model.
"Upon the payment of a moderating rate of 15 euros, users of Family Health Units are likely to have access to oral health care within their geographical area," detailed the preseidente. For the rival candidate, Americo Afonso, former president of the Society of Dental Medicine and Dentistry, the provision of oral health care for users of the National Health Service (NHS) is also by the services of doctors dentists. "
The integration in the NHS is a model exhausted, "said Americo Afonso, who argued that dentistry should be seen" in an integrated manner "in all the medical specialties. Americo Afonso, who also was chairman of the board of the Hospital of S . Marcos in Braga, between 2002 and 2005, took his application for president is "a break" with the current direction, for which it has generated "some discontent."
Among the proposals of the candidate for president there are also strengthening the process of licensing and certification of clinics of doctors and dentists crediting training throughout life. These projects are also part of the programme of Orlando Monteiro da Silva, who rebate the criticism arguing that the current direction "almost entirely fulfilled its objectives" and that "few of which failed to comply was due to bureaucratic obstacles."
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