The health minister said today that an oral health program in the public sector would require an "investment too costly 'to be necessary to install equipment and put many professionals in the health centers. In the issue of symbolic first dentist to check a pregnant woman, the Health Center of Olivais (Lisbon), Ana Jorge assumed not to be made from savings accounts to the National Health Service (S.N.S. in Portuguese) with the use of contracted services in private area, where there are equipment and professionals in the field of oral health. This year, the extension of the oral health program will cost the state 21 million euros.
"[Download exclusively in the public oral health program] would require a huge effort for the program to be extended equally," stressed the Minister, ensuring that the initiative of dental checks allows the program to be extended in a 'faster and more equitable across the country. " So far 43 have been issued vouchers dentist, but the minister ensures that all health centers have already been offered.
For the president of Dental Association, Orlando Monteiro da Silva, although certainly continue to be much to do, a good start is always a good start. The program provides annual ceilings of 120 euros for pregnant women followed in the S.N.S. and 80 euros for the elderly beneficiaries of the solidarity supplement.
The order in February ruled that the extension of the National Program for Promotion of Oral Health include upgrading the health care coverage to 80,000 people per year, estimating that the program covers 65 thousand pregnant annually. The previous access to dentistry is done by a dentist custom-check issued to the user by the health center where it is followed, and necessary, as appropriate, a certificate of pregnancy or evidence of the situation as a beneficiary of Completion issued the Institute of Social Security.
In the initial check, pregnant women can receive two more checks for dental consultations and treatments, a total of 120 euros. The performance of treatments can be completed within 60 days after delivery.
The elderly can receive covered by two dental checks per year, a maximum of 80 euros. Users can choose from any doctor on the list of professional members of its health region. The list currently comprises 2,600 professionals, which is equivalent to 40 percent of doctors registered as a dentist (about six thousand), said the president of the Dental Association, stating that this is a process of continuous membership.
Maria de Fatima, pregnant over 35 weeks, was the face of the symbolic beginning of the issue of dental checks. The wearer's Health Center of Olivais received today from the hands of a Health Minister that will allow you to check "a check-up to the teeth and then we can see," but for not having dental problems, your plan calls for a cleaning procedure. "The teeth are weaker during pregnancy and it appeared not to [check this] is a help. Not all people have the means to go to a private doctor and so I agree with this measure, 'he said.
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