The billing for dental offices decreased by about 40 percent in 2012, as a result of the crisis that causes people to not spend on prevention, revealed the president of the Dental Association advances the agency Lusa. The crisis affects, and how, the offices of dentistry, said Orlando Monteiro da Silva, on the sidelines of the World Day ceremonies of Oral Health, who pointed out this Wednesday.
The president said that the charging of 5,000 to 6,000 dental offices decreased from 30 to 40 percent last year, compared to 2011. This decrease, he said, due to the crisis and the fact that people postpone, always that can, going to the dentist, unless it is to treat the pain and the obvious discomfort. To Orlando Monteiro da Silva, the consequences of removal of offices can result in a reversal of optimistic results in terms of oral health, which have occurred in Portugal.
In times of austerity, the crisis affects the health and in particular, oral health, lamented.
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Equity between the provision of dental services among the public and the private, the creation of the Single Oral Health Bulletin, the complete overhaul of prevention programs, the setting of price cap for dental treatments and geographical mobility of doctors dentists are proposals already made several years ago that can reverse the dire situation of oral medicine in Portugal.
The problems of oral health in Portugal have nothing to do with the economic crisis; all the existing problems in dentistry are due to the conservative mentality and interests installed in the sector, preventing the adoption of new strategies that put the oral health to everyone, remaining confined to cooperative members and monopoly interests, seeking only profit.
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