487. It is true that smoking causes tooth loss?

Yes, smoking can lead to tooth loss. Research worldwide has shown that smoking is directly related to most diseases of the mouth, including the squamous cell carcinoma, which is the main type of oral cancer.

Studies show that smokers are four times more chances of getting periodontitis, a disease that causes destruction of the bone supporting the teeth. This is because smoking increases the peeling of the oral mucosa, gums and causes heating of tissue inflammation, with consequent destruction of bone tissue, which may result in total loss of the tooth.

Depending on the severity of the event (time of smoke, volume and lack of care for oral hygiene) the destruction of bone tissue can reach the point of preventing the placement of the implant. If the smoking persists and the person does not take the necessary precautions to keep your mouth healthy, you can even lose the implant ever.

Tooth loss is a slow process before it becomes evident the smoker suffer other dental problems. A study by Elizabeth Krall Kaye, epidemiologist and professor of health policy and research services in health at Boston University's School of Dental Medicine, found that people who smoke cigarettes have a probability up to 70% more likely to need to do root canal treatment (endodontic ) compared to nonsmokers.

Ideal for good oral health and whole body is to stop smoking. Better still is not starting. But for those who can not quit, the best option is to prevent making frequent and routine visits to the dentist for cleaning and possible interventions to prevent the aggravation of installation and potential problems.

Danielli Spina, specialist in aesthetic dentistry and prosthetics

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486. Brushing your teeth reduces risk of cardiovascular disease

Brushing your teeth regularly reduces the risk of cardiovascular disease, according to a study in Scotland. Researchers ensure that people who rarely or never brushed their teeth, had a 70% higher relative risk of suffering a myocardial infarction or other cardiovascular complication, even after adjusting for other cardiovascular risk factors. Even individuals who brushed their teeth only once a day instead of twice or more, presenting a 30% lower relative risk of these events cadiovasculares fatal or not.

Periodontal inflammation, which is gingivitis, promotes the development of atherosclerosis, the formation of fatty plaques in artery walls of the heart. About 40% of the population has some degree of periodontal disease, a chronic inflammatory disease complex, largely caused by poor oral hygiene.

Experts say that promote oral health can be an effective measure in preventing cardiovascular disease.

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485. Oral Health in Silves (Algarve)

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484. Alliance for a Cavity-Free Future

Alliance for a Cavity-Free Future

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The Alliance for a future free of dental caries is formed by a worldwide group of experts who have joined to promote an integrated clinical and public health in order to prevent and eliminate caries, advancing to a future free of dental caries in all the age groups.

Overall, the group believes that an overall collaboration is needed to challenge world leaders and other regional and local actors to the need to warn the importance of dental caries as a factor inducing the disease and to participate in activities that promote the prevention of caries, allowing an overall management that can positively influence the ongoing problem of caries.

Given the purpose of conducting an action for global collaboration, the Alliance aims to partner global, regional or local level, involving political and community leaders, health professionals and oral health education and the general public.

WEBSITE

http://www.allianceforacavityfreefuture.org/en/us/home

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Promoters
University of Dundee
Global Child Dental Health Task Force
Colgate-Palmolive

483. Azorean schools healthier

The Regional Directorate of Health today launched, in Ponta Delgada, the first of three training courses in the area of ​​health in schools, in partnership with the Regional Directorate of Education. According to the Regional Director of Health, Sofia Duarte, this training aims to provide technical health teams with the skills needed to identify potential challenges in middle school.

This program, which aims to promote health and healthy lifestyles, covering such areas as nutrition, oral health, exercise, prevention of the consumption of licit and illicit substances, as well as stress management for young people in a school. Sofia Duarte ensured that the project is of extreme importance, since it will perform a physical examination required of all students between five and six years and from 11 to 13 years. The medical school intends to make an assessment of capacity and physical development of children and youth, in terms of vision, hearing, oral health, posture and language, in which the results will be recorded on the Child and Youth Health, which includes a platform to record all student data.

In this context, where it detects a situation of negligence or need for special monitoring, the school health team will integrate the student or referral to the relevant departments.

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This example should be applied throughout the country. There is political courage and take me to want to do better by children and young people, they are the future generation of this country.

For when a bulletin Oral Health for all children and young people in Portugal?

It's important to say that few, if any, are currently missing the extermination policies of essential public services carried out by the last governments and have contributed to the remarkable increase in access of most of the population to primary health care, including oral health.

482. Dentists and world leaders in public health have signed commitment to fight tooth decay in the world

Tooth decay is the most common chronic disease on the planet, affecting an estimated five billion people, equivalent to 80% of the world. To address this issue, experts from around the world are to mobilize, through a Global Alliance For A Future Free of decay, to define strategies, goals and implement programs to help combat tooth decay in the world.

An important step in that direction was given during the FDI World Dental Congress 2010, held this month in the city of Salvador (Brazil). During the event, world leaders in oral health have signed an agreement for the implementation of comprehensive prevention and management of caries in the world. Among the participants were representatives of the World Health Organization (WHO), Pan American Health Organization, the International Dental Federation (FDI), International Association for Dental Research (IADR) and the Brazilian Dental Association (ABO) as well as leading experts in health dental and public authorities in Brazil and elsewhere.

The Global Alliance is formed by a worldwide group of experts in dentistry and public health advocate the importance of decay be understood as an ongoing illness that requires comprehensive prevention and control its progression is interrupted in the world and can be walked in the direction of future without a cavity.

According to Roberto Vianna associate professor at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and president of the IDF, tooth decay is a global problem that causes harmful effects to health, society and economy. Despite the progress made ​​in prevention and treatment, caries is still a neglected epidemic in many countries, says the expert.

Following the trend of changes in dietary patterns in the world, some countries struggle to prevent the growth and prevalence of caries in the population. These changes result in a decrease of habits of oral health care, and impact on other health issues, reduce the quality of life, self-esteem, employability and social mobility.

From the economic point of view, in recent years, the incidence of caries has increased significantly, linked social inequalities, affecting the productivity of people and impacting the growth of countries, notes the expert.

As a first step, the Global Alliance plans to increase awareness about the problem of caries, including on their economic and social impact, through the launch of a public health campaign. This campaign should intensify international commitment by signing a formal declaration of public health and reveal online tools that enable a new approach to the problem.

Caries is an infectious disease that can result in the destruction and tooth loss if not treated. It is caused by the proliferation of bacteria and other determinants, such as food waste remaining in the mouth. One of the most effective ways to prevent tooth decay is prevention.

New feature on the Internet for Professionals and Communities - The first initiative undertaken by the Global Alliance For A Free Future Caries is a free online resource that provides professionals and communities, evidence-based tools and support materials (eg case studies, analysis systematic) for local action. The goal of the website is to offer subsidies for communities, groups and individuals committed to fighting tooth decay, and is a platform to mobilize resources, share best practices and contact with other stakeholders.

Although there are many tools and sources of information to guide the development of interventions against caries; we approved the evidence-based analysis, because it will help us have success through the use of tools and technologies that improve the prevention and management decay Pucca Gilberto says, National Coordinator of Oral Health of the Ministry of Health of Brazil. We hope to take these resources in Brazil as we work with the Ministry of Health, the dental community, and other leaders to ensure that people of all economic levels are benefited.

Continued Public Health Action - As a next action, the Global Alliance wants to continue to stimulate a dialogue with world health organizations, as well as running campaigns at local level. The main future steps include:

§ By 2015, 90% of dental schools and dental associations will have adopted and promoted a new approach to caries as a continuous problem in order to improve the prevention and management;

§ By 2020, regional members of the Global Alliance For A Future Free of decay should be integrated in a locally appropriate systems of prevention and management of caries, closely monitored;

§ All children born since the year 2026 should have no decay throughout his life.

Global Alliance For A Future Free of Caries - The Global Alliance For A Free Future Caries was created in collaboration with a panel of world experts in dentistry and public health. It is sponsored by Colgate-Palmolive, which supports the improvement of oral health through partnerships with dental professionals, governments and public health agencies, and project management Smiles Bright Futures, an initiative of oral health education for children in around the world. Because the goal of stimulating collaborative global action, the Alliance also seeks partnerships with global leaders and other stakeholders at regional and local - including leaders of countries and communities, health professionals and dentistry, community and public policy education and population.

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The results emerged from the meeting of the IDF must be reflected in the guidelines and policy options for public health of various governments. It is imperative that the Portuguese health authorities (Ministry of Health, Directorate - General Health, Ministry of Education) clearly take tooth decay as the main infectious disease affecting the Portuguese population and to establish an immediate goals for their effective control and eradication.

Portugal can not continue to be a poor relation in the third - world in Europe, with regard to oral health care provided by the National Health Service is unacceptable that, compared to Portugal, there is currently poor and underdeveloped countries of the Third - World to do more and better oral health for their populations.

It is clearly time to take that Portugal has all the facilities and human and financial resources that enable the control and eradication of dental caries, missing only the political will to take the right step in that direction.