359. Opinions about oral health program broadcast on public television Portuguese

Some considerations about the various interventions in the program:

- positively was João Pimenta, which focuses on exactly the main problem today in Portugal in the area of oral health: Oral health professionals should be in the Health Centres and Hospital Centers, there is money for many things but there is no money to have dental Health Centers I also agree, commenting on the sarcastic smile of Rui Calado, in this program, you know exactly where they should be the oral health professionals in Portugal;

- Francisco Salvado, Coordinator of the Department of Stomatology, Hospital Santa Maria was also very well to remember that the check-dentist comes just less than one million Portuguese, leaving out more than nine million, also questioned about the need for support other risk groups, including elderly people with mobility difficulties, the disabled and cancer patients, and the danger of the abandonment of school health. By the way, let me remind you that I await clarification from the Directorate General of Health Protocol for the promotion of health education at school, signed between the Ministries of Health and Education on September 7, 2006, as the post number 347 of this blog, who, after more than a month, still waiting for the reply, I have some doubts that this protocol has not even passed it, having died the same day it was signed;

- by contrast, was very badly Paulo Melo, management of the Order of Dentists, considering that the national situation has changed a lot and it would be inappropriate that the National Health Service spending a huge amount of human and financial resources to equip health centers and it is exactly this position defended by Paul Melo that causes increasingly exacerbate the problem of oral health among the Portuguese. With these views we are just going backwards, because denying the integration of oral health services in health centers will unfortunately continue with more of the same, increasingly alienating the majority of the population to pay taxes of any access oral health, and half private;

- Finally, emphasize what Rui Calado said, while commenting that oral health is not considered a disease in Portugal and I would add, view starting with the politicians and then by the Ministry of Health;

- I pity anyone who has spoken during the program, all Portuguese are required to pay taxes to the training of dentists but, after graduation, dentists are not available to treat the oral health of all the Portuguese, more I believe a lack of morality and extremely malicious there concerns about spending of money today, when everyone knows the earnings and savings of resources that would begin immediately to get in tomorrow.

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