The change of government in Portugal failed to provide a touch on oral health policies followed in our country in recent years and have contributed to the enormous degradation of oral health care provided to the population, especially the most needy and who has no economic capacity of resort to private health services.
After some months, still not perspectivou, by the government, any measures that do foresee a profound change in the practice of dentistry and oral health in our country, continuing to attend to the same standards coming from the socialist government.
It begins to be a bad example for the country to see the government continue oral health policies that are pure cosmetic, they have a very small impact and serve only a tiny percentage of the needs of the population (less than 10% of infant needs; over 90 % needs of children and youth are not bridged).
But private groups continue to gain wealth at the expense of the hand - of - the work of highly qualified and trained at the expense of the taxes of those who work and continues to see that their children never have proper dental care.
What is the destination of the new team of the Ministry of Health to proposals received in writing and set out the number 535 and 536 posts of this blog?
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Government maintains funding for dental check
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The Government will maintain funding for the program checks dentist and is studying the possibility of extending this measure to oral cancer, a disease that is increasing in Portugal, announced on Sunday the Order of these professionals. During the XX Congress of the Dental Association, which met for three days in Lisbon over 2,600 participants from across the country, and Assistant Secretary of State for Health, Fernando Leal da Costa, announced the continuation of funding for the National Programme for Promotion oral establishing dental checks.
In a statement issued after the meeting, the president of the order, Orlando Monteiro da Silva, welcomed the decision of the guardianship, recalling that this program is essential to the population with fewer resources, because the National Health Service [SNS in Portuguese ] has internally response for patients oral health. In Portugal, like the rest of the world, 90% of the population suffers from dental caries and periodontal disease (gum and bone).
Focusing on early intervention to reduce spending on these diseases for patients and for the state, said Orlando Monteiro da Silva, adding that the dentist-check ensures access to treatment more sensitive population, including pregnant women, children and elderly. The chairman also stressed the possibility under consideration by the Government to extend the check-dentist oral cancer, a disease that affects 35 000 people this year in Europe and causes death in 7500. According to him, this type of cancer is increasing in the country, largely due to lifestyle, since the origin of this disease are especially factors like smoking, excess alcohol and poor diet in fresh vegetables and fruits.
Under the check-dentist, more than one million Portuguese already had access to specialty consultations since 2008, of which 600 000 this year alone: 500 000 children aged seven, ten and 13 years and 100 000 pregnant women, elderly and children less than six years. In Congress, was also presented by the President of the Table Nomenclature of dentists that, from now on, it will be obligatory reference for all professionals, standardizing the description of procedures and treatments so far described in several papers, not always coincide.
Table Naming regulates the designation of the acts themselves of dentistry, making sure that everyone involved, dentists, patients, health systems, subsystems, conventions, insurers, health plans and other regulators, using the same terminology.
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