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Defender of the Order of Dentists' independent and free of other interests than those directly related to the exercise of the profession, the candidate for leader of over seven thousand dentists registered with the association believes the future of oral health in Portugal is by creating public-private partnerships that enhance the structures already built at the same time as providing care to the population within the National Health Service
Oral Health - How did the challenge to reapply the president of the OMD?
Orlando Monteiro da Silva -Came after reflection and after receiving support from a huge range of people who gave me a kind of blank check and that, though I know it is not always easy, given the guy on the site of application. The group of supporters already gathers more than 750 people who felt a call to one who stars in the project application. I felt that call with a great deal of freedom and responsibility at the same time, because there was also a very strong movement on the part of young dentists. These were what convinced me to proceed with the same decision, not wanting to put in here because the support nor the reputation of anyone.
Oral Health - However, there is also a growing problem of excess dentists in Portugal. What measures proposed to resolve this issue?
Orlando Monteiro da Silva - I am not a president or cabinet operetta and regular contact with professionals in the field. I realized how well the expectations that were deposited in me by these young newcomers to the profession and understand that there is clearly a surplus of dentists in our country, with many to go abroad to work. I'm not mincing words about it: it's a shame that this potential is being lost and skilled people. Furthermore, it is a shame for the country so that you lose the investment made in training these professionals.
I think actually the youngest are struggling to assert itself in Portugal and that there must be a great representative and are listened to their problems, as has happened on the site, with questionnaires, selecting focus groups and trying to make their bids to obtain appropriate response by the OMD.
What I want to emphasize is that this application is a new project that promotes new ideas for the next three years, and obviously we will pay attention to the problems of this fringe of the profession that has supported us so much. I also think we should adapt the training of dentists to country needs and propose concrete measures in this regard, because colleges live in student numbers since it depends for its funding.
Oral Health - Do not see then welcome the opening of a College of Dental Medicine announced for Lisbon?
Orlando Monteiro da Silva - I know there are instincts in this direction that the Order has not stemmed the privileged dialogue it has with the Government - not only with this, but with any government - the result of the prestige it has acquired over the years. I believe that in many cases is more important is what stops people do than what you do. We are committed to the attitude toward the opening of new faculties and remains until it reduces the number of students in dentistry, because we believe would improve the quality of education.
In addition, heralded a greater stake in postgraduate teaching and there is an unpaid volunteer internship, in terms of courses of Bologna, colleges, hospitals, health centers and private clinics, which gives young dentists ease of entry labor market and an experience that increased contact with the profession.
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With the motto An Order for All, the list B is assumed confident of victory. Of the ten lines of force by which it will govern, there is a proposal to create a permanent service dental care, provided by clinics and private hospitals with emergency rooms 24 hours a day and create a bulletin distributed Oral Health at birth. Fernando Guerra also accuses the current management of OMD have assumed an attitude of subservience to the various powers in place and promises to reshape dental checks whose current model considers a counter-intuitive, since no benefit in the long term.
Oral Health - What prompted your application the president of the OMD?
Fernando Guerra - It was believing it was time to renew and revitalize Order. We think the life experience that we have prepared us for this challenge and managed to mobilize a number of colleagues who are a team with the necessary experience and expertise at all levels, to serve the OMD in the way that we understand more convenient. This revitalization is vital and necessary that these institutions have the ability to renew itself and to open doors to new ideas and energies.
Oral Health - Why the motto An Order for All?
Fernando Guerra - Translate much of what are our beliefs. We believe that the OMD must reorient itself to the professional issues, giving particular emphasis to the difficulties that dentists feel and our action, while the Order, will refocus attention on the institution's dentist. We are therefore convinced that there would be no better motto to reflect this desire.
The team consists of dentists who work daily in their practices and, therefore, we are aware of reality and the problems that persist. We want to change that and make our contribution to changing the way that has been followed.
Oral Health - I assume by your statements that there are changes that the OMD should be made to its operation. What changes they intend to introduce?
Fernando Guerra - As mentioned above, institutions should periodically re-energize. For this, we propose a different framework in order to address the problems through a refocusing on professional issues, also a large opening in the dentist's role in society and have the capacity to form the OMD as a true catalyst for a national integrated health and has an active participation of dentists.
By this we mean clearly the integration of dentists at all levels in this strategy of oral health. We have drawn up an action program that has many ideas. A set of measures that we present such a plan within that statement that we want to go through the integration of dentists in the team of School Health, immediately creating a different approach that has been advocated, which will include an integration in the health centers. We want to be dentists to establish the community level strategies, as well as best practices and also they can be the engines of an overhaul, which should be immediate and highly relevant, the dentist-check.
Oral Health - Therefore advocate the integration of the SNS dentist?
Fernando Guerra - Yes, we want is an integration at various levels. The integration of the SNS dentist is needed for an effective improvement of oral health in Portugal. We watched, year after year, the implementation of oral health programs that have no real consequence in this instance and that have been offending in a way to consider only the dentists as manpower caregiver, the cheapest possible and undermining their professional dignity. We are completely against this style of approach.
Rather, we intend that dentists are engines at the community level in implementing strategies for oral health and OMD should be a catalyst of this idea nationally.
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