The Dental Association has called on the authorities to begin to deliver sooner dentist checks in schools, which are having a lower rate of use in school-age children. According to the report on access to the Serviço Nacional de Saúde (SNS), the 997,000 checks issued from the academic year 2008/2009 students from public schools only 57 percent were employed.
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Let's do math. In Portugal there are about 1.8 million children and adolescents (default). The recommendation is to be made 2 visits per child per year (1.8 million X 2 = 3.6 million visits per year), the dentist-check was introduced in the academic year 2008/2009, 3 years ago (3.6 million X 3 = 10.8 million visits). The number of vouchers are distributed to dentists 997 000, giving a coverage of 9.23%
The conclusion is simple: the check-dentist covers less than 10% of the oral health needs of children and young people in Portugal.
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