Pedro Avelino (Rio Grande do Norte), BRAZIL - The Department of Health Pedro Avelino intensified investment in promoting oral health among children and adolescents. The project seeks to create a generation healthier than before, to grow free from the need to make dental care more serious or even extract teeth for lack of care.
The council, which is administered by Mayor Sergio Cadó, is promoting an overhaul in the health sector. Investments also include improvements to the municipal hospital, in care of the program strategy of Family Health. The city maintains a service consultation and dental procedures varied across sues clinics and offices distributed at headquarters and in other communities.
But the project geared towards the public school proposes to establish a more direct relationship between dentist and patient, through a range of visits to public schools. The initiative is made possible through a partnership between the municipal education and health. According to the municipal court of public health, all the teaching units administered by the city are included in the project, which has a lineup consisting of lectures on oral hygiene and actions such as applying fluoride and toothbrushing.
The main goal is to secure the education of students need to brush your teeth always after each meal and before bed, as well as flossing and visiting your dentist regularly. The project seeks to attack, locally, a culture of neglect of oral health, traditionally dominant on the inside. According to the Municipal Health Department, investment in oral health in schools comes at a time when the city directs resources to other projects in the area of dental care.
One goal this year is to buy a mobile dental office to serve mainly the rural population. The equipment will be used for dentists to serve residents in communities farther from the center without the need to move residents, a factor that discourages people time to seek treatment.
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And for us here in Portugal, who takes the responsibility to reach those who can not go to a consultation? How's Oral Health Program School for these schools across the country?
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