Sunday 2 August 2009

227. Dentists want to create the 'dentist for family'

Dentists Portuguese Minister of Health proposed the creation of the figure of 'the family dentist, to be given to children like the doctor, a proposal that so far has not been accepted, inform the Lusa. The proposal was made by two representatives of the Order of Doctors Dentists included in the analysis of oral health program, said Paulo Rompante, one of the doctors responsible.
The idea is to give to a child, when born, a dentist who works as a kind of a family doctor for oral health, but without integrating professionals in the health centers. "We are not proposing dentist for the health centers. The proposal is for a system of convention ", explained Paulo Rompante in the margins of the Congress of Medical Dental, which runs until Saturday in Lisbon.
As to the promotion of oral health in schools, the doctor points out some flaws and advocates a reorganization of this project, which critics are accompanied by other clinicians and by the President of the Order of Doctors Dentists. The basic and essential step of this program is to promote daily brushing at school, which is not being done in most institutions.
"Since the program was designed, only entitled to access the other steps of the schools that promote the daily brushing. No program works if the brushing is not promoted, said the expert. The argument by some schools that are unable to promote oral health can not be among dentists.

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