Saturday 7 August 2010

366. Candidate for Chairman of the Order of Dentists

Candidate for Chairman of the Order of Dentists in Viseu - Chairman of the candidate Dental Association, Fernando Guerra, was in the city of Viseu to present the guidelines of your application, listening yet the problems they face every day the doctors dentists in the region. Fernando Guerra said that the main purpose of this application goes through the revitalization of the institution that is the Order of Dentists.
We want to introduce an innovative speech find different proposals and concrete so they can be found solutions to several problems that persist in persist, he explained. The assistant professor, School of Medicine, University of Coimbra believes he represents a clear alternative to the direction that the Order has had.
We try to give new energy, innovative solutions to instill clearly that the order to rebalance the profession of dentist, he said. A little over six months of the elections, the candidate has been touring the country in order to share experiences, listen to colleagues, reconnect the policies that intend to introduce the Order of Dentists to dentists.
Dentists have responded in a positive way to this challenge, these meetings have presented their points of view, shared their experiences, called attention to the many things they face in their day to day, he said. Between the lines of force, presented the need to redirect the Order of Dentists to professional issues, also extending the involvement of dentists in society, proposing a plan for rational and integrated oral health.
We find that funds that are available to Oral Health in Portugal need to be streamlined, have dentists on the ground to implement the strategies of oral health. Dentists should integrate the National Health and they should be the protagonists of the strategies that unfold in this area, he argued. Regrets that so far this has not happened. Therefore, we put forward concrete proposals, including the creation of a National Emergency in oral health and the integration of dentists in the nuclear school health teams, in addition to the award of a report of oral health to newborns and children's garden childhood and the first cycle.
Fernando Alberto Guerra is licensed by the Faculty of Medicine of Coimbra (1993), completed the Masters in October 1997 and conducted tests Aggregation in July 2008. Is assistant professor, School of Medicine, University of Coimbra since January 6, 2004 and the principal investigator or co-authored research projects with national and international head of the Laboratory of Histology Tissue Oral Cavity Department of Dental Medicine. Fernando Guerra ended in March, the duties of dean of the University of Coimbra, to apply to the Order of Dentists.
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The Chairman of dentists has renominated this Saturday - Yielding to the call of the class, the president of Dental Association, Orlando Monteiro da Silva, will re-apply for the post, with proposals such as extending the voucher to the dentist. The Chairman of the Dental Association has revealed that this Saturday, his candidacy for the post and that will, among other things, the extension of dental checks for children of ages that has not been contemplated, as well as diabetics.
Monteiro da Silva indicates that its proposals concern the mandatory insertion of dental medicine in the work and input of doctors, dentists in public hospitals over a career of her own. Two other proposals also appear in the table, such as recruitment of physicians in this specialty by the Family Health Unit and the creation of a national system of reimbursement for basic dental health care for all users of the National Health Service (SNS in Portuguese).
According to Lusa, the current Chairman of the Order of Dentists yields to the call of the various professional specialties who claimed the nomination and convinced him to continue the ongoing measures. Although in recent years much has changed in dentistry in Portugal and oral health, Monteiro da Silva points out that there is still a very large range of people without access to care in this specialty.

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