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About 18 thousand children already have the Azores Bulletin Single Oral Health, a document unprecedented in the country which has all the information and medical history, announced today source connected to the project. The regional coordinator of the Program of Oral Health Promotion, Ricardo Cabral, said the agency Lusa that the project, which started in 2006, is taking place in a "positive" and already covers the nine islands of the Azores.
According to the doctor explained dentist, the bulletin is aimed at children and young people up to 18 years and can be requested free of charge in the 16 health centers in the region. "The aim in future is that the whole population may have a individual form of oral health, "said the expert, who represents the Azores in the National Program of Oral Health. With the creation of this document, the executive wanted to give the Azores Regional Health Service (SRS) of a tool for registration and consultation for health promotion and prevention of oral diseases in the islands.
For Ricardo Cabral, this document represents a further contribution to the oral health of Azorean, which together with other public awareness and information already held, has allowed the public awareness. The doctor dentist said that, although slow, the results of this study have emerged, pointing to the example of the rates of tooth decay in children Azores, which in 2000 stood at 4.5 percent and in 2005, rose to 2 , 1 percent.
Citing the findings of the latest survey of oral health conducted in the archipelago, Ricardo Cabral said that between 2000 and 2005, there was a "gain in health" at the level of real rates of tooth decay among children from 2.4 percent. As for the percentage of children free of caries at age six, the region fell from 30.8 percent in 2000 to 37.3 percent in 2005, and the World Health Organization recommends that in 2020, is reached the 80 per cent, he said.
The president of the Delegation of the Azorean Portuguese Dental Association, Arthur Lima, the Bulletin of Single Oral Health is an "important contribution" to health promotion, although alert to difficulties in implementing the project on the island of Faial. Arthur Lima said the Lusa that, in Faial, no dental practitioners in the public sector, so the distribution of newsletters have been done by teams of nursing. "The six medical dentists who work in Faial exercise all private clinic because the government Regional never opened vacancies for the civil service, "said Arthur Lima.
In the Azores carrying 74 dental professionals, covering all islands in the archipelago. Contacted by Lusa, the Regional Director of Health, Teresa Brito, said that the situation of Faial is unresolved, not a lack of will of guardianship, but due to issues with legal. "The hiring of employees required to unfreeze the first waves and the holding of a public tender," said Teresa Brito, for whom "the solution to this gap will reach the short term." According said, the legal proceedings "are not compatible" with the urgency of the situation, but underlines that the Azores government has done "a gradual work" to provide all health centers with new equipment and materials essential to the practice of dentistry.
Around hundred and half of doctors participating dentists at the end of the month, at a meeting on oral health in San Miguel Island, which will also serve to a free screening the population, said the source organization. The Fourth Meeting of Oral Health of the Azores runs from 26 to April 28 at the county's village, showed Ricardo Cabral, for whom the event will facilitate discussion and exchange experiences among the professionals associated with the oral health of the entire country. The program, beginning the April 26, is an act of free screening for the population, which will take place in the flag of the town's sports village.
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