The Dental Association considers excessive vacancies available in higher education courses for dentistry in Portugal, justifying the fact that the activity is exercised almost exclusively by the private sector, the ratio of professionals in Portugal is above the European average and age on the current young dentists.
Indeed, two major barriers to the business of dentistry in Portugal is that it is concentrated in the private sector, imposing exorbitant prices for any treatment and making their access restricted to a small percentage of the population with economic wealth, the most of the Portuguese simply unable to have continued access to dentistry. Perhaps it was here that the Order of Dentists should act, agreeing to respect for the Constitution of the Portuguese Republic and requiring the integration of oral medicine at the National Health Service SNS in portuguese), in perfect competition with the private sector. Everyone would benefit:
-better career choice for young dentists;
-increased competition between the public and the private sector, lowering considerably the current prices charged by expensive clinics and offices and greatly improving the quality of services provided;
-easier access to oral health care, translated by a significant improvement in oral health of its population.
The fact that the ratio of professionals in Portugal is above the European average is an asset that has not been translated in terms of gains for the population, since studies show a significant lag indicators of oral health relative to other european countries. Thus, there is still a large gap in oral health care to provide the Portuguese population that can easily absorb all the existing professional.
The existence of dentists still relatively young age is beneficial for the country, young people are always more willing to do more and better oral health for the population of our country. It is up to them to open up new prospects for the provision of oral health care to the population, overcoming obstacles and inertia of those already installed in the area for a long time and that reluctance has adaptations, breaking vested interests in the sector and placing the dental the service of those who most need to be effectively met. Have the Order of Dentists capacity to invest in these young doctors and dentists seeking to boost the oral health sector in the country, betting on innovative initiatives that enhance young doctors and dentists that are beneficial to the population - and the cooperative unions, for example, may be alternative ways to defend the interests of young dentists against the abused and exploited by big business of health and the Ministry of Health.
If there are several hundreds of dentists Portuguese emigrants, then it is because you will be offered dignified conditions of work that makes up for his trip abroad, the Dental Association and other organizations related to oral health should strive to practice and also demand these same conditions in Portugal.
The Order of Dentists should provide, first, access to all Portuguese to oral health care on equal terms in both the public and the private sector, limiting the places for dentistry should never be a priority while own Dental Association recognize that a large majority of the Portuguese population remains unable to have access to oral health care. Current pained in terms of career opportunities in our country lie in the lack of regulation and the almost complete lack of active monitoring of activity of dentistry in our country, by allowing multinational corporations, big business groups and insurers do every kind of exploitation of labor, work, or any health guarantee for customers.
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