A dental consultation to 20 euros and a massage therapy to 15 are offered by higher prices of Lisbon who wants to pay less for health care and is not 'afraid' to be attended by trainees.
"Students trainees are always accompanied by teachers in any type of intervention", warned the heads of the School of Dental Medicine, University of Lisbon and the School of Traditional Chinese Medicine to calm any fears.
In that way new dental school, students go through pre-clinical training in the dolls head and then practice in people, but "always followed, stressed the head of the college, Antonio Vasconcelos Tavares.
In the range of services offered at the clinic of the students there are preventive treatments, surgery, placement of dental prostheses and appliances (orthodontics), oral hygiene and to the specialty of radiology.
Prices may vary from five euros for an application of fluoride or a type of X-ray or 10 euros for a provisional restoration to 1450 euros in placing a bridge.
"What can happen is the treatments take more time", warned the director of the institution, recalling that the functions are performed by those who are still learning and so the visits also take place during school hours.
The profile of users of services open to the public ranging from people with financial difficulties, who want treatments with institutional guarantee to the advantage that the more flexible hours (up to until midnight) or the conditions of parking 'very rare to find in Lisbon, as recalled Antonio Vasconcelos Tavares.
Revenues are reinvested in the consultations and the possibility of such gross amount equal to or may even exceed the state budget. Until last November there was a plug revenue of 2.6 million.
The number of complaints have been residual and mainly concerns the time of waiting and not the quality, stressed Mario Bernardo, vice-director of the college.
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