188. Open letter to the organs of sovereignty

This Open Letter is addressed to all the organs of sovereignty in any way that can make any move to change the disastrous state of the oral health of a large percentage of the population.

Calls to all readers living in Portugal or anywhere in the world, they get a copy of this open letter to the Portuguese authorities and send by email to all your contacts.

Because, after all, there are still people who see this world and in Portugal's going to get deprived of having a simple natural smile.

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Open Letter

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To the President of the Republic of Portugal, Prime Minister of Portugal, the President of the Assembly of the Republic of Portugal, the Minister of Health of Portugal, the groups represented in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Republic of Portugal, the Director General of Health of Portugal , the Directors of Regional Administrations of Health of Portugal, the chairmen of local authorities in Portugal and the President of the Order of Doctors Dentists: let me address a few considerations about the oral health in Portugal today.

Since about a year I have done, from this area, several calls attention to the problem of oral health in Portugal. However, returned several months, continues to be seen standing inertia of the authorities to point out practical resolutions to the problem of oral health in Portugal, or the Assembly of the Republic, the Government wants to remain in lethargy on the need to combat this scourge typical Third World countries and widespread in Portugal, member of the European Union.

A link to the negligence of those charged by law, there is a favorable position in social terms, to this, perpetuating the black stain on the health of the population that chooses not age and that particularly affects the lives of many hundreds of thousands of children and young people for the rest of his life, particularly the most disadvantaged social classes and living in rural areas of the interior, which are never addressed in dentistry or stomatology, leaving the fate handed to them is restricted.

Instead, look at what is happening in the Azores with the launch of the card user of Oral Health, or what happens in other European countries, which rely on recruitment of health professionals oral Portuguese - is just unthinkable, that the best formed in our colleges, the price of gold (many tens of thousands of euros it costs to train a doctor or dentist Stomatologist in Portugal, out of our tax money?) will give the country euro zero productivity.

I think therefore that we must address the real problems of the country and not bury them in sand, forgotten, as our legislative leaders and government are to make progress. A specialist in medicine knows that investing today 1 000 in the monitoring of oral health over the life of a child until the age of majority can be translated into real gains for thousands and thousands of euros to the country, in two ways: by a hand, will allow better overall health, enabling better learning and training for better performance of work delivered as the labor market, allowing substantially increase the productivity and income, creating more wealth for the country and, secondly, to drastically reduce the occurrence of other diseases of all types associated with oral health problems, allowing the state and the private wealth-creating reduce billions of euros in costs of health and abstentionism to work (when recorded an entire working life of each person multiplied by the number of people may benefit from the existence of a program of oral health in the country, accessible to everyone), let alone in serious psychological problems of the forum that the problem of oral health results to those who unfortunately have to survive with disease.

Grateful for the attention given, I thank now all your offices to light a light of hope in the treatment of a completely preventable disease with the human and financial resources that the country currently has.