Oral Health in Portugal

492. Faculty of Dentistry of Piracicaba studying genes involved in malformations of the teeth

2012-01-28T21:19:00.002Z

Teeth are not born, and dental enamel staining with irregular features are some problems that can occur during tooth formation. Study them so wide was the objective of the Thematic Project Defects in the formation of the tooth, which was supported by FAPESP and was coordinated by Sérgio Roberto Peres Line, Department of Morphology, Faculty of Dentistry of Piracicaba, State University of Campinas (FOP-UNICAMP) in Piracicaba (SP), Brazil.

One of the objects of study was the effect of fluoride on the occurrence of spots on tooth enamel. Considered a mild malformation, this problem occurs during the formation of organic matrix and calcification of the tooth and primarily affects your enamel. Although it is basically composed of minerals, the enamel begins to form from a protein matrix, and at this stage the tooth is already suffering the action of fluoride.

We developed a method that uses polarized light microscopy and allows to study the state of aggregation of the proteins of tooth enamel, said the Line Agency FAPESP. It was known that fluoride affects tooth enamel, but the FOP team has shown how this occurs. We show that fluoride disrupts the protein matrix of enamel during its formation, he said. This part of the doctoral research composed of Alexandre Ribeiro do Espírito Santo, who studied the effects of genetic alterations on the organic matrix of tooth enamel and had fellowship from FAPESP.

Another change found in dental enamel analyzed in the project was amelogenesis imperfecta, a problem caused by mutations in different genes related to the formation of this part of the tooth. This anomaly may manifest itself in different ways, for example, an enamel hard, thin and full of irregularities.

In the most common form of the disease, the enamel comes with a soft consistency, and to be worn by chewing, and eventually disappears exposing the dentin, the inside of the tooth. Thus, the disease has also functional and aesthetic consequences because after wear can be left only a small piece of the tooth, said Line.

This part of the survey was conducted in conjunction with Pragna Patel, Institute for Genetic Medicine at the University of Southern California (USC), the United States. The teams Brazilian and North American region mapped a gene related to amelogenesis imperfecta. The genetic survey also attended the National Institutes of Health (NIH, its acronym in English). At this stage, we studied families who had people with the disease to identify genes related to its occurrence.

None of the cases tested correlated with amelogenesis imperfecta. Even so, the results are important because we analyzed all genes related to enamel formation and we now know that they alone are not responsible for the disease, indicating that other genes are involved, said Line. The analysis of genes involved in amelogenesis imperfecta was the theme of the doctoral thesis of Maria Cristina Leme Godoy dos Santos, who developed his work with Grant from FAPESP.

The team also investigated the absence of the formation process of the tooth called the dental agenesis, which is more frequent among the upper lateral incisors and third molars known as wisdom teeth. In more severe cases, a few teeth are formed, causing serious problems chewing and speaking, and those related to aesthetics.

To study this disease, the FOP team analyzed the polymorphisms of PAX9 gene called and got some of them relate to agenesis of molar teeth, especially wisdom teeth. The PAX9 has been the focus of researches of Carolina Vieira de Almeida, Cristiano Pereira Borges Saito and Liza Ramenzoni Lima, with grants from FAPESP. The work required the collection of DNA from patients attending the clinic suffering from FOP agenesis. With this, the researchers were able to compare regions of DNA with that of healthy people and, therefore, possible to identify parts involved with the disease.

Started in 2005, the work was finished in May 2010, having produced important papers like the New locus for autosomal dominant amelogeneis imperfecta on chromosome 8q24.3, published in the journal Human Genetics in 2006 and identifies the chromosome 8 as a new locus of amelogenesis imperfect.

Another work produced in the same project was accepted recently by the journal Cell Biochemistry and Function, and will be published later this year, according to Line. The FOP group intends to further studies in the regions of the PAX9 identified that were more likely to be related to dental problems. This is the focus of the study of Mariana Martins Ribeiro and Luciana Souto Mofatto - the first is Technical Training Scholarship from FAPESP and, second, Postdoctoral.

The training of human resources was a key outcome of the project, according to Line. Students who worked on this theme are now teachers at the Federal University of Parana, Federal University of Bahia and Amazonas State University, said. Line also consider upgrading the research infrastructure an important consequence of the theme. The purchase of a freezer that reaches - 70 °C and a luminometer [for measurement of luminescence] and the assembly of a cell culture room, which will be used by other areas of Unicamp, are important contributions that allowed the support of FAPESP feasible, he said.

O Repórter

491. Interview with President of the Order of Dentists

2012-01-22T18:49:00.000Z

490. 10 tips for choosing your dentist

2012-01-22T18:37:00.002Z

1-On the first visit to the dentist, look closely from the reception room to the inner office. Be attentive to issues related to cleaning the environment, the sterilization of the material, and the use of caps, gloves, mask and disposable needles. Many diseases can be transmitted in the office.

2-Passing through the first query, do not be shy and ask all the explanations about the treatment that will be held in his mouth. This is where you will feel if the professional is competent or not. If you do not feel safe, find another dentist.

3-Ensure that, during treatment, teaches professionals how to take care of the teeth to prevent future problems. This quality shows that he cares about the oral health of their patients and not only interested in making money.

4-Note the way the dentist treats his patients, employees, and also in the attention that needs to your questions. If he treats everyone with kindness, is a sign that will do the same with you.

5-The time formed the professional is not vital, but also counts. After all, a perfect result of treatment is what really matters.

6-Do not look for a dentist prioritizing only the financial side. When the price is too high, ask for discounts, and if too low, be suspicious.

7-For your choice is permanent and safe, you should consult different professionals in order to obtain different budgets, which may be charged or not.

8-Be careful not to get carried away by misleading advertisements. After all, advertising does not mean competence. What should be taken into consideration is the professional curriculum and the results of their work. A good dentist should be well updated and attend conferences to specialize more and more.

9-Note the amount of time that the professional reserve for each patient, and if the consultation is made between a correct cleaning of the office.

10-Take a spin at the first appointment if there was the concern of the professional as to your problem, or simply, if the professional is restricted to the budget.

Saúde Bucal.net

489. International Dental Congress of the Centenary of APCD

2012-01-12T19:11:00.002Z

http://www.apcd.org.br/centenario/
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From January 29 to February 10, the International Dental Congress will mark the centenary of APCD 100 years with many new features, will be promoted at the Expo Center Norte, with free membership to all surgeons and dentists voluminous scientific grid with new activities and more international conferences.

To open the celebrations of 100 years of its activities, the APCD - São Paulo Association of Dentists will, from January 29 to February 10, the International Dental Congress of the Centenary, which will bring together 70,000 professionals from Brazil and abroad . Under the unifying theme to grow, the anniversary edition will be held at Expo Center Norte, without charging the membership fee of dentists and a voluminous scientific grid with three new activities - sequential course for clinical use, clinical solutions and national course for academics - as well as more international conferences. Registration is now open and can be made through the website http://www.apcd.org.br/centenario/ or by phone 0800 12 85 55.

It is a historic and unique because Congress will be held in a very special date, the event celebrates the president, Jorge Silvio Cecchetto. He points out that the move to the Expo Center Norte will bring comfort to the participants. It is a modern and well located, equipped with air conditioning and classrooms reversible, which may be enlarged or reduced according to the number of people, he says.

A marathon courses, workshops, hands-on panels, boards make up the scientific and clinical programming of the Centennial Congress. In parallel, there is the realization of Fiosp - International Dentistry of São Paulo and Community Dentistry, APCD project's social, theater presentations and educational activities for children and seniors.

488. Learn about foods that help to protect teeth

2012-01-05T19:06:00.002Z

Brushing and flossing teeth every day is the best way to ward off dental disease. But a diet rich in nutrients such as vitamin C, D and calcium can help to make teeth whiter and gums healthy. The American dentist Anthony M. Lacopino, University of Manitoba, says the first step to having a pretty mouth is to reduce snacking between meals, so that the teeth are not so exposed to substances that erode the enamel.

To reduce the chances of tooth decay, prefer to eat three meals a day, says Lacopino. Also beware that some foods can chip or even break teeth. Chewing ice is prohibited, as well as olive stones, fruit or popcorn.

Foods to avoid

Chocolates and sweets: In addition to increasing the amount of bacteria in the mouth, teeth and adhere to difficult cleaning;

Simple carbohydrates: potatoes, pasta, bread and white rice also increase the acidity of the mouth and create an optimal environment for bacteria. Best exchange for full or brush your teeth soon after;

Coffee, tea and red wine: All these drinks contain pigments that stain teeth. Tea and coffee, if they are sweetened with sugar, also stimulate the proliferation of bacteria.

Beneficial foods

Water: Drinking helps reduce the acidity of the mouth and decreases the amount of bacteria in the mouth;

Sugarless gum: The gum increase the amount of saliva in the mouth, which neutralizes acid and protects tooth enamel. After meals, it is a good choice if you do not like brushing your teeth;

Citrus fruits: Despite being acidic, it helps increase saliva and end up cleaning the teeth. Bet on orange, cherry, lemon and kiwi;

Cheese and milk: The protein in dairy products, calcium and phosphorus decrease the acidity of the mouth and also protect the enamel erosion. In addition, the minerals help strengthen the surface layer of the teeth;

Fish and flaxseed: They help keep the risk of gum disease and reduce oral inflammation. The omega-3, found in both foods, also makes the body more resistant to inflammation and infection;

Chocolate: Substances found in cocoa decrease inflammation and help protect the teeth from erosion. Chocolate, although rich in sugar, is a better option for your teeth than cookies, cake and even raisins, Lacopino says.

O Globo Saúde

487. It is true that smoking causes tooth loss?

2011-12-31T00:17:00.002Z

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

Bonde

486. Brushing your teeth reduces risk of cardiovascular disease

2011-12-31T00:14:00.002Z

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.

Correio do Brasil

485. Oral Health in Silves (Algarve)

2011-12-18T18:36:00.002Z

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Translation to English by Google

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Portuguese version

484. Alliance for a Cavity-Free Future

2011-12-09T19:00:00.002Z

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

2011-12-01T00:34:00.002Z

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.

Jornal Diário

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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

2011-12-01T00:13:00.002Z

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.

Portal Fator Brasil

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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.

481. Father of the National Health Service asks another oral medicine for Portugal

2011-11-24T12:03:00.003Z

The socialist and founder of the National Health Service (SNS) Antonio Arnaut would like the share of the State Budget for 2011 to increase and focus on health care facilities and in oral medicine. A month and a half for the Government to present the Budget for 2011, Antonio Arnaut aspire to Lusa news agency says that the budget for health (about 1 / 6 of the state budget, not reaching nine billion euros) is increased, but not only to improve the NHS.

He has to be improved, but can be improved regardless of the money because there are services that can spend less and work better advocates. For the social background, the increase should focus on enhancing the network of continuing care and palliative care, which is now spread across the country, and the creation of another oral medicine, which is virtually nonexistent.

There are already checks dentists for pregnant women, children and elderly, but it should be moving towards the creation of a valence of oral health, which is very important, not just to have beautiful teeth and functional, but to prevent other diseases, he says.

On the other hand, observes the former Minister of Social Affairs, at the time of crisis we live, the social sector must be strengthened to compensate for the inequalities that now aggravated by unemployment and other precarious situations.

Diário Digital

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These wise words illustrate the current bleak picture of oral health in Portugal, the responsibility of governments past and with the full connivance of the Directorate - General for Health and, in parallel, installed in groups with interests in the sector.

The drastic difference in which we live today in access to dentistry between the wealthy bourgeoisie and the illustrious rulers of the state apparatus of the regime, against overwhelming majority of the population voted to contempt and without rights, reminds us that Portugal is closer to of poor and underdeveloped countries than their European Union partners in terms of oral health.

480. Portugal is at least newer than in most OECD

2011-11-17T18:36:00.002Z

Report puts Portugal among the least developed countries to invest in children under five years. And generally, those under 18 have a quality of life below the OECD (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development) average, due to factors such as poverty and low levels of education.

Portugal is one of the OECD countries that less public investment channel for children up to five years. The data contained in a report - Childhood Decides - released by this organization, which concludes that, in general, the quality of life of children in our country is far below the average for the developed world.

With regard to indicators of public investment for each person under 18 years, Portugal is a group of countries that invest between 60 and 70 thousand euros per year. Values that are the lowest, will not be particularly negative in view of the per capita income.

Problems arise when analyzing the proportion of this investment that is channeled to the fringe of zero to five years. Precisely that age when, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, may be the most decisive investment for the future of these children. Especially when concerning poverty.

In this chapter - in which no country has a performance that is acceptable to the OECD - Portugal is among the least invest: of public funds for the children, just over 20% lower reaches six years.

The data, assumed as the OECD, are based at the crossroads of a wide range of indicators, not all recent. Measurements of the current government - reinforcements as the School Social and pledge for new gardens-care - are not yet reflected in accounting. But also aspects such as the values of family allowances and tax incentives to families in which the portuguese advances have been timid in comparison.

Moreover, when the Portuguese under 18 are seen in the light of a broader framework - which the OECD defines as well-being or quality of life for children - the conclusions are still worrying.

A total of six items compared, relating to three major areas - Living Standards, Education and Protection - the situation of Portuguese children is only clearly positive at the level of risk behaviors. Low rates of alcohol and tobacco among children contribute to a sixth place among 30 countries.

But in all other categories, Portugal is below half of the table. In the material well-being is twenty-fifth, at the level of wellness education, twenty sixth, and in terms of quality of life in school appears in twenty first.

The performances are proof of these low rates as 16.6% of children living in poor households. A value that, even taking into account the estimated average income of each country, only allows to overcome Spain to Portugal, the United States, Poland, Mexico and Turkey. The chronically poor performance of Portuguese students in international comparisons are another negative contribution.

Different indicators give an account yet full of anachronisms Portugal, where 85% of children grow up with both parents but a third live in housing below the desired level, where there is little deaths at birth but many - particularly boys - in adolescence.

DN Portugal

479. New treatment promises to eliminate decay without the use of drills

2011-11-17T18:27:00.002Z

A new procedure called Kariesinfiltration, the DMG company, promises to treat tooth decay without the use of drills. But it can only be used in some cases, explains the director of DMG, Susanne Stegen. The procedure is effective in fighting tooth decay at an early stage, one that is in the tooth enamel and moved no later than the first third of dentin. All that is requires deeper, unfortunately, the drill.
Usually the dentist has two treatment options: the first one he makes use of fluoride in the tooth in question and calls the patient to have a better oral hygiene. Then you wait to see if the glitch does not become a real hole.

Or he just uses the drill to remove decay at their early stages. In this case, however, healthy parts of the tooth are removed, the dentist explains Ulrich Schiffner, University Clinic of Eppendorf. In this case the problem is that, in holes that affect only the tooth enamel or a little more, you must first remove one part of the tooth in order to get to where the cavity.

Now, the new method offers the ability to fill a small hole without resorting to the drill and prevent the spread of decay to the deeper regions of the tooth. First the mineral layer on the defective area is eliminated with the use of a gel, then the new plastic material, called Icon, is still applied in liquid form. This plastic substance penetrates the enamel matrix, due to capillarity, and it is then, like any other plastic filler, hardened with light.

The procedure is designed especially for cavities located in the region between the teeth, but also for minor defects in smooth surface, such as in patients using the device.

Throughout Germany there are approximately six thousand professionals already applying the method Kariesinfiltration. The treatment lasts approximately 20 minutes and costs between 80 and 100 euros. The value is not covered by insurance in the country.

Early clinical trials with the Icon are not conclusive and are based, according to Schiffner, a period of 18 months. These studies show that approximately 75% of the treated tooth surface, cavities were eliminated.

DW-WORLD.DE, Deutsche Welle

478. Young autistic been waiting over a year for a surgery (II)

2011-11-13T18:38:00.000Z

477. Young autistic been waiting over a year for a surgery (I)

2011-11-03T23:56:00.002Z

Duarte appeared to be a normal boy, but at 2 years old was diagnosed with autism. The boy is now 13 years and is more than one waiting to be operated at the Hospital of Ponta Delgada. However, the clinical picture of Duarte gets worse every day.

The teenager can no longer chew food by having almost all decayed teeth and can not go to a conventional dentist. The hospital claims that the couple is on a waiting list, but the desperation of the family begins to increase. The patient's mother states that already have to grind all the food you eat the young, and has no family doctor, a factor that has delayed the process further.

In desperation, the mother delivered a letter from a pediatrician to request the operation. She has written, including a letter to the director of the clinic to explain the whole situation. Jump to a private out of the question because Fernanda Tomé can not sustain the costs. For one, the expected date of operation is the last week of September.

RTP Açores

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The Minister of Health, Mr Director - General for Health and Dental Association: see here the effects of the ridiculous policy of oral health who play for our country. This is an example of flagrant violation of human rights in Portugal when a child needs medical attention.

A case that deserves to be condemned internationally.

476. Four years of ORAL HEALTH

2011-10-24T23:29:00.002+01:00

It is now four full years to publish the Oral Health. Over these four years here have been treated the most widely varying issues related to oral health in Portugal, unfortunately, there is still a lot of work on, because the balance of four years on oral health in Portugal brought little positive to society, and much less for the poor and excluded.

The Oral Health has tried to be always updated, informing its readers about the latest news relating to oral health in our country. Keeping an independent editorial line, the Oral Health has tried to be always on the defense of civil society, never aligning interests by co-operative, did not hand the disastrous policies pursued by various governments and the Directorate - General of Health in this area, and there was a protagonist of big business with large vested interests in the sector.

The Oral Health was guided by the right to indignation and straightforwardness, I was always concerned the rights of citizens enshrined in the Constitution of the Republic.

The constant trampling of the rights enshrined in the Constitution, access to health care, favored policies of the Ministry of Health outputs, sometimes aligned interests within the cooperative sector, coupled with the ineffectiveness of amorphous powers of Parliament and President, allow the systematic violation of demagogic and fundamental human rights, including the Charter of rights of the Child, denying them one of the most basic human rights: access to health care.

In a country where the training of dentists is at the expense of all the Portuguese who work and pay taxes, continue to use schemes that prohibit access to dental care to the majority of the population. The oral health care are now almost exclusively the right of the political positions of the central government and the bourgeoisie, the working class will still have much to fight to get equal rights in this society atrocious output from April 25, 1974.

Shame demagogic exercised by those who want the system remains as it is going to have the company for Oral Health for many more years.

475. Pingo Doce helps treat oral health of residents

2011-10-24T23:16:00.003+01:00

The project "the VRSA Smiling" was released by the city of Vila Real de Santo António (VRSA) at the end of last year and to date has funded dental care to 85 people.

From the moment that authority announced a protocol with six clinics in the county and the financing of oral health care to the most needy that the number of subscribers continues to grow. Currently there are about 1500 people waiting to be called.

Not all individuals listed meet the criteria required by the municipality, which were established in the economic conditions of each household. In this sense, the City continues to make the respective social analysis to determine which people are able to integrate the program, says the Mayor of VRSA.

After the protocol signed with the county's six dentists, last week the project received a new lease of life support through the Pingo Doce, which collaborated with EUR 150 000 under social patronage. It is clearly a very important financial boost and a gesture of welcome. We have a budget of 300,000 euros for this year and only with this contribution can fund the project by 50 percent, said Luis Gomes.

However, the mayor acknowledged that the budget needed to finally resolve the problems of oral health of residents has no limits and you can not define, because there are people to sign up continuously.

Helder Jacinto, Pingo Doce, recalled that this is the first supermarket chain that support for the field of dentistry and oral health. Regarding the Chamber of Vila Real de Santo António, one official stated that it is an example to be followed by other municipalities.

JA, Jornal do Algarve

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Here is an example of what should be good practice in relation to sponsorship of initiatives to promote oral health of populations.

Projects in which the promoters of patronage are the same as managing resources and "contract" to show dentists work have no place in the actual promotion of population health, often aimed at schemes of tax evasion and embezzlement.

It is necessary and critical to separate the promoters of the patronage of the entities that manage the resources available; turn to dentists only they are responsible for the implementation of clinical interventions, being duly compensated for their work.

The City Council of Vila Real de Santo António, Pingo Doce and the dentists who participated in this project are to be congratulated, so there are other municipalities in the country to copy this example.

474. The degradation of harmful working conditions of dentists in Portugal

2011-10-14T00:17:00.002+01:00

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What is the reaction of the Order of Dentists of this subordination of the working conditions imposed by the state, violating the rights enshrined in the Portuguese Constitution?

473. Diário Digital / Lusa interview President of the Order of Dentists (Part 2: Analysis of interview)

2011-10-05T00:20:00.002+01:00

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.

472. The most prevalent disease in the Portuguese society is tooth decay

2011-09-25T15:33:00.002+01:00

Carlos Pereira, 46 years old with a doctorate from the Faculty of Medicine, University of Porto, dentist, professor at the School of Health of Viseu (ESSV) coordinated a study on the oral health of young people in the Centre Region. Natural Sátão, began her career in nursing, but the passion for oral health was stronger, becoming the first doctorate in ESSV. Viseu chose to live, but opted for the hometown to open an office. I knew that the mouths of most of the Portuguese is a serious problem, but the results of the study coordinated still managed to surprise: it is amazing that 20 percent of teens have no idea of what the dental floss.

-How does the opportunity to conduct this study with young people between 12 and 18 in the Center?

-The idea of developing this study arose from the lack of evidence, evidence, hard data on this phenomenon we have studied. We had no data on population and in the case of adolescents on how they performed their oral hygiene, the number of times they visited the dentist, and because we do not, this was the most important motivation.

-The lack of hard data was a barrier?

-It is impossible to plan care, a care plan is based not know the most basic data of this phenomenon, about which we can intervene.

-Party with the idea that the situation was not good and you need to achieve on the ground?

-We had the notion that the scenery was not encouraging. That is to say that the scene did not surprise us. Who makes clinical faced every day with this issue of oral hygiene performed in a less correct. Hence we planned to study and realize it was a step.

-The study covered the six districts of Centro (Aveiro, Viseu, Guarda, Castelo Branco, Coimbra and Leiria)?

-We have an approach-mostly in the district of Viseu and after studies in other districts.

-Do not be abusive to say it is a study of the Center?

-No. All districts in the Central region were visited. If you ask me: It was done fairly? Not true, the region where more focused was the district of Viseu, where we include all public schools in the second and third cycles and secondary schools, except the first cycle and the pre-school.

-The study was done in partnership with the Faculty of Medicine, Medical University of Porto. Why this partnership?

-I did my graduate training, including master's and doctorate at the Faculty of Medicine of Porto. Then they were friends, were contacts of research, my taste for investigation came during my time in Porto. Another aspect is that one of the topics presented [the study], the issue of oral health behaviors among adolescents in the central region, was studied by the doctor Nelio Veiga, my graduate student and did his Masters in Public Health at the School of Medicine Port. This kind of two in a university also makes the legitimate co-author of the study.

-This privileged link opens the way for other studies in the School of Health of Viseu?

-This is not the first study done in partnership with the Faculty of Medicine of Porto. We worked on the prevalence of obesity in the district of Viseu, in partnership with the College. Also a few years ago, and I remind myself to work with greater visibility, we conducted another study on sexual behavior in adolescents.

-There are others in development?

-There are others in the pipeline. One with the School of Health at the University of Aveiro we're doing, but it is still early to lift the veil.

-This type of work is a constant in the School of Health of Viseu?

-Yes. In the investigation that our teachers have to perform under its post-graduate training, there has been caution on the part of their advisors, that such research may be different from what is done with the purpose of defending a thesis.

-Different in what way?

-Research-only makes sense if it turns into knowledge, and knowledge is the service of citizens, of all who need to consult scientific research, consult the evidence to care. I think that was part of our care to do research that can answer specific questions of specific populations.

-What are the general results of the study that brought us to this conversation?

-In conclusion we can say that one in five teens do not brush your teeth. We are talking about 20 percent.

-This is bad or very bad?

-It is bad enough. The ideal was that from an early age instilled in children is oral hygiene habits, passing by brushing your teeth, brush your tongue, brush your gums, deep down, take a careful hygiene in the mouth and teeth. Then say that only one of four teens (25 percent) brush their teeth twice or more per day, assuming that brushing twice a day is the minimum. Another note that is important to remember that if they brush their teeth twice or more per day, use of dental floss at least once a day and regular visits to the dentist twice a year, we found that less than two percent of our teenagers have oral health habits correct. Another note, to say it is amazing that 20 percent of teens have no idea of what the dental floss.

-What else surprised?

-This question-flossing.

-Have you found reasons for this?

-Probably never heard of, and admit that not happen in all this teaching consultations. Often, there are basic issues, emerging more and more disturbing. If the person goes to the doctor because it hurts the tooth, it should be talking about flossing?

-The results were worse than expected?

-I think so. We are talking about young people between 12 and 18 years and hoped they were more informed. I still lack a fifth note [of the findings of the study] to say that young people from less educated social classes - determined based on the school that the father or mother had - were those who had worse oral hygiene, visiting less dentist, was where the highest prevalence of adolescents who did not know the end tooth.

-We also have to add here a financial issue of their parents?

-This is another question. These health issues add, that is, it is not known, it is poor, do not go to health care, there is no information about where to turn, etc., etc.. All this is kind of a snowball when it comes to education.

-Oral health is also a social problem?

-If you ask what is the most common disease in the Portuguese society, certainly I will say it is the myocardial infarction, cancer or stroke. But if we see the numbers as cold as they should be seen, the most prevalent disease in the Portuguese society is tooth decay. We forget that dental caries is an infectious disease with a major component. And if you do the question: Who ever had tooth decay? Probably 99.9 percent either have or have ever had.

-How do you make a good brushing of the mouth?

-In one of my tickets for youth hostels, one day I shared a room with a Norwegian and hygiene morning when I went to the showers came across that the individual was dealing with oral hygiene. I came, I did my oral hygiene, shaving unpacked, showered, and when I returned to the base, he continued with his oral hygiene. This reflects the importance that we give to the questions of others and give oral hygiene. After meals, it is always convenient to oral hygiene, morning and evening is the minimum requirement. Using a suitable brush should be replaced every three months.

-What is a suitable brush?

-Must be a soft brush, is a principle.

-The market has good brushes?

-Yes, yes. When asked whether they should use electric or manual toothbrush, the answer I give is: use as well. The physician should indicate the proper brush in each case.

-And the toothpaste?

-Tags [market], are marked with the amount of fluoride recommended by the World Health Organization.

-The study shows that boys are more lax than girls. Is there any explanation for this?

-I have no explanation.

-This should be the target of an individual study?

-When doing research, in whatever area is always in the same study looked at men and women, a good research practice demands that we separate men and women to one side to another, without any prejudice or interpretations. Being a man is to be different for women and has an explanation of the problems with sex.

-When do young people go to the dentist?

-Those who belong to more privileged economic classes seek the dentist on a regular basis and a more routine.

-And soon?

-Yes. Check The Dentist opened some doors. We have children with four / five years or even earlier. The first visit should be as soon as possible for the child to play with the dentist and realized that this ghost has a tendency to disappear.

-The program Dental Check is working? There are already some criticism.

-I believe that is not working by feature and I've said that does not reach all children, but the little we do good is always welcome. The message goes on.

-What more can be done through the mouth of the young?

-I think it's so bad that the little we can do is welcome. I'm sure a toothbrush and toothpaste cost a tenth part of what is necessary to spend time to make an oral rehabilitation.

-You are talking about the failure of prevention?

-Of course. In the overwhelming majority of cases, if the patient reaches this state is because primary prevention has failed.

-The problem is not just the young, the elderly is a difficult age. Do you agree?

-There is a slice of our elderly oral health call [what they do] is an attack. That health will be someone who has pain that feels psychologically and socially affected? This is more important than we think.

-Treat your teeth in Portugal is very expensive. This is also a barrier to the oral health of the Portuguese?

-We must be realistic, there are many people who can not afford a consultation.

-There should enter the National Health Service.

-Do not believe in austerity plans that might happen, but easier access to those lower classes who can not afford. I must admit I find that people who have difficulty paying the simple consultation of 40 euros or 50 euros.

-There are more dentists in Portugal?

-I usually tell my students that this world today, as I see it, must be understood in the logic of the global village that everyone is talking about. We have to run. People must be willing to leave, to make the leap. Since there, there are opportunities for success in various parts of Europe and the world. If they start to be too many for us? Maybe so, but there are other areas where it starts to be more supply and less demand.

-What is the relationship between health of the mouth with our health?

-We talked of obesity, malnutrition ... the teeth are not just for chewing, are used for various things, even to smile. Those who have no teeth with which one can make effective chewing, of course this will be reflected in terms of digestion, the nutrients are not absorbed as efficiently and downward anything can happen: gastrointestinal problems, digestive disorders, the malabsorption of food, malnutrition. Then, if we consider that a poorly maintained mouth is a mouth where there are many different species of microorganisms, these microorganisms themselves may be related to a set of diseases, the level of the heart, kidneys, acute articular rheumatism, sinusitis and all other diseases that today are known to have a direct relationship. It happens quite often appear in patients with horrible pain clinics in the face, head, ear pain, ringing, etc.. And often appear after being found in ENT, to be seen by a neurologist, a psychiatrist and by colleagues in other specialties. It is impossible to be healthy, well-being seen as physical, mental and social, if there is a proper oral health.

Jornal do Centro / Região de Viseu

471. Diário Digital / Lusa interview Chairman of the Dentists (Part 1: Interview)

2011-09-25T15:23:00.002+01:00

Dental Association

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The Dental Association today said the excessive vacancies in higher education, because of the labor market is almost exclusively private in Portugal, where the ratio is above the European professionals. We currently have a ratio of one dentist to 1,339 people, about 7,200 dentists with an average age of 34/35 years. It is a very young class, where you will feel renewed too late and have an annual growth rate of 8.2 percent, the Lusa news agency said President Orlando Monteiro da Silva.

For the specialist, there are already schools of dentistry in excess (seven), almost the same number of medical schools, where there are several specialties. So you see the hype, the doctor said, adding that are currently registered in more than 500 foreign dentists to practice in the United Kingdom, Sweden, France and other European countries, most young people without the possibility of placement in the labor market in Portugal.

Moreover, unlike other countries, these professionals carry on business almost exclusively in private, then warns that the true ratio should be divided by two, since more than half the population has no access to dental care. Unless the mechanism of dental check, even with a small size, in Portugal there is no dentists in public, as elsewhere, he said.

Thus, Orlando Monteiro da Silva, represent that Portugal has an excess of doctors and dentists about the same number of colleges in England and other countries with a higher dimension. We were very disappointed to see that the places for dentistry to maintain or increase slightly, in an area that needed more doctors are not criticized.

In total, seven colleges offer 557 seats: 60 in the Faculty of Dental Medicine of Lisbon, 80 in the Faculty of Dental Medicine of Porto, Coimbra 42, 100 at the Higher Institute of Health Sciences North, 65 in the Higher Institute of Sciences Egas Moniz, Portuguese Catholic University on 75 and 95 in Fernando Pessoa.

The vacancies have not risen much, about 4 / 5 percent, but it was what one would expect a decrease, if not done because we still have people on unemployment or underemployment, he said. Moreover, last year there have already been licensed to leave early from college, with the reduction of the course from six to five years, according to the Bologna Process.

We will continue to have many people in training is the most expensive in Portugal to leave the country to practice, taking advantage of other countries that the investment is made in the training of highly qualified technicians, said.

More graduates yes, but there must be planning to not have problems in the future, maintained, referring to the declarations of the Minister of Higher Education, Mariano Gago, under which Portugal has half of the graduates should have, compared to other developed countries.

Diário Digital

470. Dentists refuse customers who use checks of the state

2011-09-15T00:43:00.002+01:00

The delay in the payment of checks dental clinics in the Northern region who joined the program oral health has led some to refuse patients. Are in debt of 2 380 000 euros, some for several months. The official promise is to resolve the situation even in July.

Marisa Pinto clearly assumes that, while not receiving the four thousand euros that has to do - even in respect of July party last year - by the treatments to the elderly, pregnant women and children, Cliforno not accept new patients. We treat our patients who are, not to lose them, but refuse new patients.

The dentist checks were created under the National Oral Health Program and are intended to provide dental care to pregnant women followed up in health centers, elderly beneficiaries of the solidarity supplement and children. The Ministry of Health pays 40 euros per visit to joining the private plan.

The Cliforno is just one of many credit clinics with the Regional Health Administration of the North (ARSN). The manager ensures that the debt is affecting the activity. Five thousand euros in receipts sent, only received one thousand. But he believes that part of the problem is due to the fact that only sending receipts to the conference at the end of treatment (each child has three checks, such as pregnant women, while the elderly receive two).

Another dentist (who requested anonymity) comes to six thousand euros in arrears. Not received since January. No patients refused - even ... - and warns that one can lose in quality of care.

On the side of the Order of Dentists (OMD), the Secretary-General Paulo Melo risk the amount owed: four million, only in the North. It is the only region that has not solved the problems with the argument of the link between the computer systems that make the conference of checks and process the payment after the receipt issued.

Now they say they pay a significant amount in July. But it had said it would be in June and before that, had promised in May. Paulo Melo ensures that the accumulation of debt has put into question some offices, especially at a time of crisis. And the situation threatens to worsen by the end of August, once the checks are valid for children up to 31 days of next month and now there should be a race to the clinic.

The OMD have pressed the Ministry in order to resolve the issue, which has generated criticism from dentists. Go to press for months and nothing. Just do it, questions heard by a professional JN.

Confronted with the question, the Assistant Secretary of State and Health recognizes that the situation is not fully resolved, but is improving. The ARS of the Centre also struggled, but he addressed them. But it's different accounts of the OMD to the North, are in debt of 2 380 000 euros, of which 1 200 000 will be paid until the end of the month. The rest is being processed.

But they are only accounts that involve checks already billed and do not encompass all the treatments. Manuel Pizarro admits difficulties and delays in the administration conference checks, but also ensures that many offices were late in sending bills.

Jornal de Notícias

469. Newspaper interview i Orlando Monteiro da Silva (Part 2: Analysis of the interview /conclusion)

2011-09-11T23:52:00.002+01:00

We all know that the formation of every dentist is a charge of tens of thousands of euros, supported by our taxes. It is extremely disheartening to see the doctors emigrate trained in Portugal, it's limited resources we have in a small number compared to the real needs of the country.

Can the Order of Dentists to do something to reverse this situation by increasing the supply of dentistry for the general population, reducing the costs of such consultations and treatments to cover a larger population of people with lower incomes? The decline in the price of a consultation and dental treatment may correspond to a dramatic increase of population to dental consultations, which will have a positive effect on the exponential increase in total revenues for clinics and dental offices, which would be extremely advantageous in times of crisis like we are experiencing today, providing more jobs and fixing of dentists in our country.

If emigration is not a solution, perhaps the very height Dental Association encourage young dentists to work in Portugal, instead of being lured by jobs abroad.

Alerted to the fact that there is much illegal practice of dentistry in Portugal, with clandestine networks of recruitment, we hope that the Order of Dentists to make urgent termination of each of these situations with the relevant authorities and put an immediate end to that situation.

A good solution to end the controversy definitively illegal practice of dentistry in Portugal, namely with recruitments made in Brazil, would be working together among the professional classes of the two countries for some reason the professional pride of many dental surgeons in Brazil, working in Portugal, are praised by the Portuguese dental colleges.

468. PORTUGAL: Only 1 in 50 young people make proper oral hygiene

2011-09-11T23:43:00.002+01:00

One in five teens do not brush your teeth every day, and the boys the most careless, according to a study at the Faculty of Medicine of Porto University and the School of Health of Viseu. The same study indicates that only one quarter of young people brush their teeth twice or more daily and that the habit is related to the educational level of parents.

Just over one percent met all the requirements for an adequate oral health - brushing twice or more per day, use of dental floss and visit the dentist two or more times per year. The sample investigated was seven thousand young people aged between 12 and 18 years of public schools in the district of Viseu, who were asked about oral hygiene habits and socioeconomic conditions. The survey found that girls more often brush teeth, use dental floss more often and go more for dental consultations.

Nélio Veiga, author of the paper admitted that the frequency of cleaning teeth is related to the educational level of parents. The more educated parents are, the greater the likelihood of young brush their teeth twice or more a day, following clinical recommendations, he noted. The area of residence also influences, as teenagers in urban areas showed a higher prevalence of brushing compared to those living in rural areas.

About flossing, only 4.4 percent said they use it, while more than half of the sample guaranteed to have a dentist in the previous year. But 13 percent of youth reported ever having been to a query. Of those who were consulted by a specialist in dentistry, half went to a dentist for routine visits, 28 percent due to pain and 22 percent because of other problems.

The researcher expressed concern that a high proportion of teenagers go to the doctor only when they have toothaches. In Portugal, registered inequalities in access to oral health care of populations are evident, resulting from the fact that, mostly, be exercised in the private sector, conditioning the access of the disadvantaged by lack of financial resources, the investigator also noted.

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This is the reality of the oral health of children and young people in Portugal. If someone says there is still excess of dentists in our country, this chronicle indicates that the hundreds of thousands of children and youth continue to be marginalized in access to oral health care.

After all, what good oral health departments in the Directorate - General for Health, what is school health, finally, what are the professional associations related to oral health? What is the purpose that the Ministry of Health and Education intend to address this situation?

A genuine shame by those who should at least comply with and enforce the Universal Declaration of the Rights of the Child.

467. Newspaper interview i Orlando Monteiro da Silva (Part 2: Analysis of the interview /3)

2011-09-06T23:20:00.002+01:00

The President of the Medical Dental alert to the possible profound mistake of falling into temptation to hypermarkets dental treatments, from their own dental faculties. So in that sense, it is necessary and very urgent regulatory partnerships between the public and private sectors, to allow increased access of the population in general oral health care and eliminate the differences in prices between the queries provided in schools dental offices and outside the dental faculties. The day to go to a dental consultation is equal in terms of cost to customers, among the different offerings of specialty, the quality will determine where people wish to be consulted.

The main problem of oral medicine in Portugal in the medium term, still resides in the practice of completely exorbitant prices in the provision of oral health care and the day in which prices adjust to the reality of the economic wealth of the population, there will be no supply dentists in sufficient numbers to meet demand. No one understands the concern of limiting the number of dentists to form by the faculties of dentistry, where efforts should be geared to increase the supply of oral health care, improving the quality of services rendered and dramatically lower the current price levels in offices, currently, most of the portuguese population is still without any possibility of access to oral health care throughout his life.

The focus on the revitalization of the specialty in Health Centres, in conjunction with the development of cooperative sector unionism in the field of dentistry, allied to an increasingly greater degree of cooperation between dentists and all other technical specialists in oral health are strong options that can force private interests and multinationals in the sector to lower the price of the hand - of - work and matter - material.

It is completely absurd and false to the country that make you want already exists an excess number of dentists in Portugal. The future is an opportunity that must be grasped with both hands.

466. Infant Oral Health in Portugal: Situation completely chaotic and in need of urgent intervention

2011-09-01T01:04:00.003+01:00

On last June 30, 2010, were presented at the Faculty of Dental Medicine, University of Porto (FMDUP), the results of the Projecto ParanhoSorridente. The project began in October 2008, left a protocol between the authorities of the village of Paranhos and the Faculty of Dental Medicine, University of Porto (FMDUP) to improve the oral health of children and adolescents who attend kindergartens for kindergartens and schools of Paranhos.

The project was sponsored by Caixa Geral de Depósitos (CGD). Since the early work by the month of April 2010, the community oral health program "ParanhoSorridente" has reviewed more than 3000 of the mouths of children pre-school and primary school basic Paranhos.

The session opened with a brief speech of presentation by the Chairman of the Board of FMDUP, Afonso Pinhão Ferreira, newly elected Director of the Institution for the 2010-2014 quadrennium. On behalf of the authorities of Paranhos, Alberto Machado, Fátima Lopes, responsible for Education. And on behalf of the Order of Dentists, Ricardo Almeida Faria.

Then ParanhoSorridente responsible for the project, Isabel Roçadas Pires, presented the results obtained. In short, it was concluded that almost 70% of children Paranhos, Porto, have cavities in permanent teeth, and 39.6% need urgent treatment.

In the last two years, surveys were conducted 1 160 children aged 3 to 13 years in Clinical FMDUP, and have been held almost two dozen measures to promote oral health in the nine schools included in the project. In addition, it was concluded that in terms of the total measured, 69.1% of children have cavities in permanent teeth, revealing that nearly 50% still show signs of gingival inflammation.

Finally, the ParanhoSorridente responsible for the project, Isabel Roçadas Pires, cautioned that the partnership with the authorities of Paranhos should be an example to follow and be subject to participation by political and educational institutions.

Faculdade de Medicina Dentária da Universidade do Porto

465. Newspaper interview i Orlando Monteiro da Silva (Part 2: Analysis of the interview /2)

2011-08-24T00:37:00.004+01:00

For the president of the Dental Association, the State has to provide health care but ensure they are provided, regulated and funded. From this perspective, it seems that the OMD argues that health care should be provided for contracting of services by third parties and financially supported by our taxes, it is an option, as many others. Course will have both positive and negative aspects. However, we must remember that in thirty years, the state built a vast and comprehensive network of public health services, both in quantity and in quality, so it would be more logical to promote a competition full of care between health offer the public sector and private sector provision, leaving the option to patients / clients, but this is what would be the best logic: we would all gain and the existing equipment would be properly monetized. We can not stop now profitable public investment made by the state over the past thirty years and delivers it to companies or groups that target the private economic profit at the expense of exploitation of patients / customers.

For the dentist-check program, it is a desperate makeup mounted by the Ministry of Health in order to partially fill one of the biggest weaknesses created by the wrong policies followed in the area of oral health by various governments over the past thirty years, using the check-dentist to retain patients / clients at the expense of misery and poverty of those who have to resort to their use seems at least a ridiculous statement. Loyalty should be directed, rather, the quality of services provided.

It is a question: how was it possible to accept the OMD program when asked 80 euros for each dental check and its value was set at 40 euros? After all, did the treatments performed by each dentist-check would be identical if the cost was twice the current? Are pressing issues that the interview does not give insightful response.

Pernicious remains the relationship between a large proportion of dentists and insurance companies, without the OMD requires an ethical order to safeguard the oral health of patients / clients; pure aberration, as might be expected, the reimbursement of ADSE in treatment costs of oral health.

(Continued)

464. BRAZIL: Dentists are so against fluoride in water

2011-08-24T00:26:00.004+01:00

The Brazilian Dental Association (ABO) protest against the draft law 297/2005, authored by Senator António Carlos Valadares (PSDB-SE), which limits the use of fluoride in preventing tooth decay for topical application and prohibits the addition of substance in water, food and beverages.

The proposal repeals Law No. 6050 of May 24, 1974, which provides for the fluoridation of water supply systems when there is treatment plant, and is being reported in the Social Affairs Committee (CAS) by Senator Flávio Arns (PT -PR).

The organization rejects the justifications presented by the parliament. Valadares points to the existence of data that contradict the thesis that the systemic intake of fluoride is effective in the prophylaxis of dental caries and that numerous other studies also show the huge occurrence of dental fluorosis.

The congressman also said that there is consensus among experts that the prophylactic action of fluoride is due especially to its topical application and that it makes sense, therefore, require an entire population to ingest a toxic element in public water supplies or food and beverages in which it has been routinely added.

Method and cost effective - According to the ABO system fluoridation public water supply can reduce up to 60% the incidence of cavities. Official statistics confirm the validity of the measure. The Ministry of Health says that between 1986 and 1996, fell by 53% in caries prevalence in children 12 years of age caused by the policy of fluoridation.

Fluoride is indicated by more than 150 science and health organizations, including the International Dental Federation (FDI), the International Association for Dental Research (IADR), the World Health Organization (WHO) and Pan American health Organization, and since that is offered to the public in appropriate dosages and concentrations, poses no risk to people, says the president of ABO.

WHO and IDF advocate fluoride - According to the World Health Report 2003 WHO Oral, dental caries remains a major health problem in most industrialized countries, affecting 60-90% of schoolchildren and the vast majority of adults. Also according to the document, the addition of fluoride to the water, where technically feasible and culturally acceptable, has substantial advantages in public health.

In November 2000, in Paris (2000), the FDI approved the Report on Fluoride and Tooth. The paper concludes, based on extensive scientific evidence that the substance is used properly and with appropriate concentrations to prevent tooth decay, fluoride is safe and effective.

The report indicates that dental fluorosis can be caused by excessive ingestion of fluoride during the pre-eruptive development of teeth, but that levels of fluoride used to prevent tooth decay, the opacity or fluorosis only occurs in a relatively small proportion of the population.

According to the report, these symptoms are very mild in general and especially of aesthetic interest. According to the IDF, since the intake levels are carefully monitored, fluoride is considered a measure of public health more important for maintaining oral health.

Paraná On Line

463. Newspaper interview i Orlando Monteiro da Silva (Part 2: Analysis of the interview /1)

2011-08-12T00:23:00.004+01:00

The interview given by the president of OMD (Dental Association) Jornal i assume peculiar importance, representing a value - added valuable and urgent need for urgent that the country is experiencing in relation to discuss the sustainability of the SNS (National Health Service ) and, framing it, the way forward regarding the oral health in our country. In this context, the interview concerning various issues that currently influence oral health in Portugal and shows various scenarios for the future, on the other hand, raises questions that deserve urgent resolution by the political power.

Understand that reflection is the interview as a further contribution necessary to broaden the discussion, to seek consensus and ensure for the future, access to oral health care to all Portuguese. The contribution is minimal, other contributions to the discussion will always be - welcome.

The president of OMD says that the Constitution should not allude to a national health service tend to be free, by calling attention to the need for a certain degree of economic participation in the use of health services, it is an urgent need to go much further this issue - the parties represented in parliament and government have the absolute moral duty to implement measures to create mandatory insurance, in health, for citizens and assuring them of an addition to the expenses that eventually every citizen will have throughout his life.

Fiscal policy can and should be used to encourage savings; happens that the current government, by limiting tax benefits in relation to spending on health is directly contributing to the Portuguese divest part of the savings in promoting their own health and, indirectly , is another major factor in the sustainability of the drastic reduction in national health service.

It is then with user fees that will get funding that are lost due to wrong policy to fiscal policy, user fees represented one of the gravest violations of discrimination between people in access to medical care, because nobody chooses to be sick.

The president of OMD is absolutely right when he says that the national health service is centralized and decisions are taken by a small group of people, this is truly a remarkable defect of health policies in Portugal - half a dozen people stuffed in cabinets and often away from the difficulties of everyday life that we are professionals of national health services face in the field, are able to take, sometimes absurd options and sink the country's coffers without providing any accounts there or be held accountable.

For example, in the area of oral health and in previous post, where they are shown to stop millions of euros of oral health programs that should have been spent on medical care.

It is urgent to implement accountability to all appointments to intermediate and higher national health service, lack of positive praise and promotion, lack of accountability negative results and subsequent demotion or removal from office.

Says the president of OMD is need to reorient the national health service to prevent, in fact, perhaps tens of billions of euros could be saved annually by implementing a national health service more preventive. Also the application of a real public policy for prevention of oral health may contribute to the reduction in the medium and long term, the weight of household budgets spent on dental treatment. There is courage and assume that this is possible, not piece accountability to citizens when there is no education for this purpose.

After all, the Government and the national health service responsibility for the health of the general population, it is for them to help people make better decisions for your health.

(Continued)

462. A clinic that deals with family smiles for over 30 years

2011-07-27T22:22:00.004+01:00

Smile because it shows emotion is always a sentence in the waiting room of the Laboratory of Clinical Implant Dentistry and Jesus Luis Neves has been operating for over thirty years on the street Gualdim Pais No. 9, 2. º left, in Tomar (near the Municipal Library).

Accumulating experience and know Luis Neves and his wife Hortense, dental technicians, this was among the first to open five offices in the city of Tomar, maintaining a customer base that spans generations already. A company of family who now see this is reinforced since the couple's youngest daughter, Diana Neves, with 25 years of age, eventually graduating in dentistry.

My parents opened the business as a dental laboratory but patients have evolved and it was decided 15 years ago, to expand the clinical portion of dental medicine, explained to O MIRANTE, Diana Neves who has worked for about a year and a half in the clinic, where many patients to know as a child. A dentist was, after all, a dream of Diana Neves, who specialized in Implantology and Aesthetic Dentistry. The most rewarding is to see people smile at the end of treatment and see their self-esteem boost, consider the young doctor.

Currently working at the Laboratory of Clinical Implant Dentistry and Jesus Luis Neves three dentists, who offer all treatments in the field of dentistry, and two dental technicians. There are no protocols with institutions but the clinic joined the dentist-check, made available by the Health Ministry to pregnant women followed in the National Health Service (S.N.S. in portuguese), S.N.S. users who benefit from the Solidarity Supplement for the elderly and children or young people under 16 years.

We are always looking for new techniques, we rely on innovative materials and equipment and training, participating in national and international workshops, said Diana Neves also stresses the very close relationship and even friendship established with patients. In future, the clinic will move to a facility that are at present being built from scratch in the Estrada da Serra, which could increase the number of specialties offered.

The Laboratory of Clinical Implant Dentistry and Jesus Luis Neves is open Monday through Friday, from 09h00 to 13h00 and from 14h30 to 19h00. Although this time, there is an emergency service 24 hours while the phone the clinic, with the number 249 321 110, directed to meet any emergency situation, regardless of the time that happens.
O Mirante

461. Newspaper interview i Orlando Monteiro da Silva (Part 1: Interview)

2011-07-21T09:58:00.001+01:00

Today with 47 years of age, Orlando Monteiro da Silva was the youngest president ever in the country. Since 2001 is ahead of the Order of Dentists, an area that came later on the train in health, but - says - in an intelligent way. Will propose a meeting of the Orders of health on Wednesday in Lisbon to amend the Constitution: the National Health Service can not tend to be free, as it is written, and self-responsibility of patients is essential. Reduce the numerus clausus School of Dental Medicine is another objective. But there are also safe and conventions such as ADSE to strangle the class.I Journal - You see measures to reduce the expense of the National Health Service (SNS in portuguese language)?

Orlando Monteiro da Silva - I called the SNS sort of a train, where the dentist did not come until very recently, approaching a cliff if nothing is done, particularly in terms of funding. They are symbolic measures, in a political context in which there is great pressure for doing something, but will not change anything substantial.

I Journal - Do you have any proposal?

Orlando Monteiro da Silva - is necessary to revise the Constitution in relation to the SNS. Article 64, which talks about it, should be as brief as possible, without reference to an SNS tends to be free. It is essential that there is a degree of economic participation in the use of health services.

I Journal - But this participation exists ...

Orlando Monteiro da Silva - existed. Were given mixed signals in a way to electioneering. We symbolic user fees were increased and were later abolished. Should be taken into account that about 50% of users were already exempt. The Constitution must have a general principle of the SNS, but its modus operandi can not be restricted. Say for example that the SNS has decentralized and participatory management, when is anything but that. It is centralized and decisions are taken by a small group of people.

I Journal - see other gaps?

Orlando Monteiro da Silva - The health sector can not exist in isolation. We need a better link to refocus the SNS for prevention. Another disagreeable notion, probably, is the self-responsibility.

I Journal - unsympathetic why?

Orlando Monteiro da Silva - is a concept foreign to most people. The first and last is responsible for their own health. It is the principal and the principal person responsible.

I Journal - This has not happened?

Orlando Monteiro da Silva - No. Every day we see a projection for health services in the resolution of problems caused by actions or lack thereof, by decisions that were taken throughout life. We must help people make better decisions for your health.

I Journal - once said that the Ministry was the Portuguese as if they had mouths. Keep this opinion?

Orlando Monteiro da Silva - positive steps have been taken. We do not take the train from the NHS, but our way was to get smarter and less taxing society. With the program's dental check some basic services were contracted for some population groups, which is a very logic of outsourcing in the NHS then English. The State has to provide health care but ensure they are provided, regulated and funded.

I Journal - The treatments are the same for those who arrive with the check-dentist?

Orlando Monteiro da Silva - This is our ethics. Investment in treating a child is a good opportunity to retain patients / customers.

I Journal - But there are complaints that this difference exists with health insurance ...

Orlando Monteiro da Silva - The Order is forbidden to have tables of values in terms of minimum or maximum fees. The intervention in the dentist-check was different because it is a social program that requires the involvement of social care. I remember the conversation with the former Health Minister Correia de Campos on the amount of checks: 80 euros suggested it, 35 euros and the final value was 40 euros. With regard to insurance, contracts / agreements are an individual decision, every doctor or not to accept work under the conditions placed.

I Journal - There was some awareness?

Orlando Monteiro da Silva - I did. There's only one thing that sensitizes insurers - money - which is nonetheless legitimate. This follows a logic of the market: insurance companies take advantage of the number of physicians-dentists to unilaterally impose the tariffs. Give yourself the luxury to download the tables of the values they propose. No more treatments or interventions to be offered at no cost. Here we have an allegation of dumping about a year and we are waiting. But these are situations in the private realm, between the dentist and the convention or the insurer. ADSE situation is quite different, which does not update the values in your tables for 19 years.

I Journal - are very low?

Orlando Monteiro da Silva - the value of a tooth extraction is around 10 euros, which does not even pay the materials involved. It is completely unacceptable and unfair competition. But there's more: an insurer is entitled to make contracts, while the ADSE should work with the contest. A dentist who wants to contract with ADSE can not, because there are more than ten years that the Convention is closed. But if a large economic group appears soon open a clinic with all these conventions. There is no effective regulation in Portugal.

I Journal - What do you think the race of the clinical faculty?

Orlando Monteiro da Silva - The function of schools is not to compete with the healthcare market, but it is important that these services exist for training of students.

I Journal - But there are also medical colleges to give advice.

Orlando Monteiro da Silva - only if embedded in post - graduate.

I Journal - This is what happens in practice? Only in Lisbon and Oporto, the colleges provide more than 70 000 visits per year.

Orlando Monteiro da Silva - I have no data on the subject, but I think there is a growing temptation to do so, through the bottleneck of funding. Want to make faculty hypermarkets dental treatment is a profound mistake. But my main challenge for colleges is being a factory of dentists.

I Journal - Go to intervene?

Orlando Monteiro da Silva - We have a petition approved and in June we will start collecting signatures to bring it to discussion in committee and plenary early next year. The aim is to change some aspects of the law to match the entries in the colleges to the needs of the country. We have about 500 graduates a year, a figure that has increased with the Bologna process. Dentists have an average age of 37 years and we know that there will be people retiring over the next 4 / 5 years. I estimate that this number has gradually decreased to be 10% / year, to reach the half.

I Journal - will propose the termination of a course?

Orlando Monteiro da Silva - No, although seven colleges excessive. The United Kingdom, with more than 50 million people have nine faculties.

I Journal - What are the prospects of these young dentists?

Orlando Monteiro da Silva - Much is forced to leave the country. Portuguese society does not need more dentists, and we are seeing a brain drain after an expensive education. Many of them never come back and this is a huge disservice if we think that this training was around a few years ago, the 100 thousand euros.

I Journal - The number of doctors leaving the country is increasing?

Orlando Monteiro da Silva - In the United Kingdom are close to 440. For other European countries do not have numbers.

I Journal - Thinking in the United Kingdom, which is that they have here and what will get there?

Orlando Monteiro da Silva - Here have an uncertain future, a considerable difficulty in entering the market, a network of more than 5000 clinics and open another one in which it is virtually a suicide. Especially the number of patients who attend is very low. There are our colleagues who are in the office all day waiting for a patient, which may appear or not. The difference is that they come to England to win seven or eight thousand pounds per month.

I Journal - Graduates?

Orlando Monteiro da Silva - Yes And this in Portugal or a senior. But no solution to propose to young people who leave the country.

I Journal - But how do you compete with a salary of 8000 pounds?

Orlando Monteiro da Silva - Leaving the country is a right, but there is something to say about the politics of human resources training. If there is an increased access of the population to dentist if there is a country's economic growth, if there are products / quality assurance, most of these people will not have a future in dentistry.I Journal - There's clandestine exercise?

Orlando Monteiro da Silva - long illegal practice in Portugal, with smuggling of recruitment. With Brazil is very common. There are other colleagues who know, come here three / four months to make some queries, then go back there.

I Journal - How are revenues?

Orlando Monteiro da Silva - In the name of the legal colleagues hid. Hence the importance of the new licensing law: until next year all offices will have to ask permission. There will be periodic inspections.

I Journal - How big is the problem?

Orlando Monteiro da Silva - We thought the complaints, but no idea what it is only with effective supervision is that it would be possible.

I Journal - Portuguese is the first elected president in the International Dental Federation. Sit to represent Portugal?

Orlando Monteiro da Silva - I feel it's good for the country. My voice is more magnified in the Order by virtue of being elected president of the IDF, but my duties in the day to day but try to focus on the Portuguese case, this is not what is expected. I was not elected to be Portuguese, not for being president.

I Journal - But this is a good example of Portuguese, what would it be?

Orlando Monteiro da Silva - The quality of dentists, private practice and dental check program. The experience of the dentist-check, though limited, has been followed with great interest in international terms. Do not think only in Portugal is that oral health is neglected. At this point it would be very disadvantageous if one wanted to end the program.

I Journal - Have you heard that?

Orlando Monteiro da Silva - I have heard that the cut could include SNS dental check.

I Journal - Who?

Orlando Monteiro da Silva - Above all commentators, outsiders. First, because you spend with the program - 30 million - against the benefit that gives thousands of people is irrelevant. Then because there is nothing, and there is much to cut. The biggest problem with the dentist-check is the expectation that you are creating in the population not covered. This is what I imagine can become difficult to manage ...

I Journal - There's envy in other medical specialties?

Orlando Monteiro da Silva - I am convinced that this program will be extended to other areas. Ophthalmology, ... It is important to see that this program is born by the political will but also aware that eventually an area is valued. More than half the population has no teeth in the mouth. I remember a few years you are missing two teeth to a miss of Portugal, which is unthinkable.

(Continued)

Jornal i

460. Smiley Paranho Project: Presentation of results

2011-07-21T04:22:00.003+01:00

invitation

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The Director of the School of Dental Medicine, University of Porto and the President of the Parish of Paranhos have the honor to invite you to participate in the presentation of results for the ParanhoSorridente Project, held in the Auditorium of the Faculty of Dental Medicine, University of Porto on June 30, 2010, at 18:00.
Afonso Pinhão Ferreira, Director of the School of Dental Medicine, University of Porto; Alberto Machado, President of the Parish of Paranhos.

Faculdade de Medicina Dentária da Universidade do Porto

459. Dentists adopt children and provide free care

2011-07-13T17:58:00.004+01:00

They are dentists and undertake to adopt children and ensure that they have free medical care to teeth up to 18 years. To implement this pioneering project of solidarity in the country, the dentists are on the ground in the most deprived areas, and have identified 489 children. Of these, 109 have been selected because they had serious dental problems.

There is much to be done on oral health in Portugal and the children do not escape. Our idea is to take care of those most in need, but taking into account that, in addition to treatment, we help them to form themselves as people, says Virgínia Milagre, project coordinator of the Dentista do Bem, being presented today in Lisbon and has the support of the EDP.

In Portugal, since the beginning of the year, the project already has dozens of volunteer dentists, who promise to transform the lives of children and young people most in need through free dental care up to 18 years.

And we may be few, but that our work will help to change someone's life and that alone is important, said Virgínia Milagre, which will also receive children for free in your office.The Dentista do Bem promoted by the NGO Turma do Bem started in 2002 in Brazil.

In this first phase, the professionals, in liaison with schools, visit the establishments for a first screening, during which students are identified in need.

Next comes the second phase, in which every young person between 12 and 18, is placed the responsibility of a doctor-dentist, who adopts professionally.

In times of crisis we are aware of our reality and willing to help. But I also know that we may provide these treatments for free should not please all colleagues vents coordinator. On the ground two months ago, the Dentista do Bem it already has volunteers in schools, particularly in the Lisbon area, to identify young people who can provide a new smile.
Orlando Silva is one of the doctors who will adopt these children. I have two offices, so I can treat four children and young people. Further on is soon, who knows if there will be more, he says. Joined the project by contact with other colleagues and is now awaiting the allocation of minors. It is a way of providing a service to the community. These are kids who probably would not have another chance to receive support and so here I am, adds.
All children in the project are selected through a screening of public schools according to a national method itself, the Index of Complexity Hierarchy. There are three basic selection criteria: serious oral health problems, few economic opportunities and up to 18 years old. The project has the support of the Directorate-General for Health and ultimately serve as a complement to the dentist-check. This program is for children up to 12 years. Our project is 12 years for children with difficulties, justifies Virgínia Milagre. So somehow complement each other.
Portugal will be through the Dentista do Bem it will debut in Europe. But this non-governmental organization has proved its worth in a few years of existence, has helped more than 12,000 children and youth in Latin America, involving a network of more than 7,000 volunteer dentists.

Diário de Notícias

458. Dentists applaud new rules for licensing of clinics

2011-07-07T12:42:00.004+01:00

The Dental Association (O.M.D. in portuguese) has come this Wednesday, the public, praising the new rules for licensing of dental clinics, which are deemed an important tool to combat the illegal practice.

The OMD welcomes the publication of this legislation that will enable the public to identify the sites properly licensed, ensuring thus the quality and safety of health services, says the institution said in a statement quoted by the online edition of i. This legislation will also be important in combating the illegal practice, since these situations are more easily identifiable, doing justice to the overwhelming majority of dentists who meet all the requirements for a safe delivery of the acts of dentistry.

At issue is the decree 268/2010 on the Decree-Law No. 279/2209 of 6 October that, among other things, require them to be placed in a prominent public opening hours, the name of medical director the procedures to be adopted in emergency situations and the rights and obligations of users and should still be available for consultation to price list.

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Great, the oral health needs and needs to evolve in our country. Hopefully now also for legislation that would rectify the activity of all oral health professionals in Portugal, periodically assessing their needs and exercise professionals to acquire new knowledge and professional improvement.

457. Young asks for help to smile again without pain

2011-07-07T12:24:00.004+01:00

Luís Lourenço liked to put braces on her teeth but one first has to be operated to align the jaws intervention that costs about 15 000 euros and that is not reimbursed by the National Health System.
After seeing all the doors close, Luís Lourenço with 21 years of age, resident in the Rossio ao Sul do Tejo, Abrantes, decided to publicly expose your problem to try to find someone who sympathize with the teething problems that plagued . I have a hard time eating because the front teeth (upper and lower) do not come together and ends up injured in the roof of your mouth with the incisors of the lower jaw, reports, accompanied by his sister, Ana.

Luís, who always had many dental problems and complex for their situation, I would like to place an orthodontic appliance but was told by the dentist who came to the lower jaw was very small. According to the certificate issued by a doctor, and who is keen to show, would only be possible to do a corrective surgery in order to expand the bone bases.

I was referred to a plastic surgeon who confirmed that he had a severe deficit bimaxillary and only then could stretch the jaw line and get a skeletal and dental to put the unit reported. The whole process that allowed Luís to smile again without pain is estimated at 15 000 euros.

The problem is that the National Health Service (S.N.S. in portuguese) dentistry is not a share. In September 2007, the president of the Dental Association, Orlando Monteiro da Silva stressed that about half of the Portuguese population was not able to pay for a dental consultation. While there are no dentists in health centers or delivery systems, people will be excluded from oral health, told a news agency Lusa.

Despite having a lot of pain, I know I can come to have serious breathing problems if they do not correct this problem, attests, sad to have seen refused funding from various banking institutions. Also insurance companies refused to make the policy once the problem already exists. My father is retired, my mother is home and I do not give me the loan because I work at a temporary employment agency, said the young man who says his health problem is more than aesthetic, being angry for not being operated via a state hospital, even making their discounts and contributions to Social Security.

We do not have 15 thousand euros or who lend us this amount. We have no other solution and I am worried about my brother to be suffering. This is not a matter of aesthetics but of health. My brother at this moment is to take every day for pain medication, attests Ana Lourenço, 27 years, with the vexed problem that drags on and without having to mortgage anything that might help. For hope and believe accepted to explain the position.

In Portugal, only the autonomous regions have oral health systems to serve users of the S.N.S. Statistics of the time, indicated that in the Azores Autonomous Region there are 19 dentists in regional public health system and the Order provides that, in some years, the Azores are the best indicators of oral health. In the Autonomous Region of Madeira, there is an agreement between the regional health service and private, in the public system to reimburse in part the cost of users who use private dentists.

O Mirante
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Perhaps the Director - General for Health and Minister of Health Ana Jorge had more tact and sense to solve this situation immediately, rather than being to finance the Portuguese TV channels on hundreds of thousands of euros, without bringing out a single act doctor.

Alternatively, put your seats immediately available to those who know better manage public goods in the country.

456. Launch of the "Gang of Good Portugal", Monday, June 14 at 19:30

2011-06-30T15:10:00.004+01:00

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Personal note:

Several times I thought we should publish the post. Unfortunately for me, EDP is the niche companies purely capitalist and without serious social vocation, which leads me to question the real interest of the good guys in doing projects with this entity (give me decides to go patronage here in a desperate attempt to escape the EDP taxes, if so, then we are witnessing the worst feasible patronage in Portugal).

Do not put into question the willingness of the good guys to take the oral health status where the Portuguese failed completely and the professional sector cover their eyes, trying to leave everything as is and so everything continues exactly the same.

Lamenting the fact that the government take our taxes to pay for the training of dentists who will never be available to those who need it most (the ethics in this case does not account for many oral health professionals, does not account for the Directorate - General Health , nor for the Ministry of Health, otherwise they would have trained dentists to work in the NHS for a minimum of 2 / 3 years to make up their training at the expense of our taxes), now see scares me see this type of project involving multinational corporations, allied to big business and exploitation of cheap labor, while providing us with the most expensive electricity in Europe (everyone remember the scandal last year, when the EDP blatantly intended to increase the price of electricity).

If not enough, also mean that I myself have also been a victim of scandalous by EDP, as having been held open competition for admission of human resources and I have been in first place in national competition, I look forward to 20 years be integrated in the company (unfortunately I did not have a sponsor within the EDP).

455. Transparency in oral health programs of the Directorate - General Health

2011-06-24T18:17:00.001+01:00

Nº 1 86101 2009-09-10
Direcção-Geral da Saúde - Televisão Independente S.A. – TVI
Issue of the Campaign advertising spot Always Smiling under the Oral Health Program Vertical = 58.581,21 €
Nº 2 88042 2009-09-17
Direcção-Geral da Saúde - Sociedade Independente de Comunicação – SIC
Issue of the Campaign advertising spot Always Smiling under the Oral Health Program Vertical = 54.539,16 €
Nº 3 52866 2009-05-19
Direcção-Geral da Saúde - TELEVISÃO INDEPENDENTE S.A. – TVI
Broadcast advertising spot Campaign Always Smiling Vertical Integrated Program of Oral Health = 53.604,28 €
Nº 4 85004 2009-09-08
Direcção-Geral da Saúde - Rádio e Televisão de Portugal S.A.
Issue of the Campaign advertising spot Always Smiling under the Oral Health Program Vertical = 49.524,78 €
Nº 5 132383 2010-02-10
Direcção-Geral da Saúde (DGS) - Luis Carvalho Neves & Associados, Soc. Advogados de Responsabilidade Ilimitada
Acquisition of consulting services and legal advice. For areas on the Service Center of the National Health Service, Oral Health Projects in Pregnant Women and Elderly and Legal Analysis and Monitoring Project Incentive medically assisted procreation = 37.677,10 €
Nº 6 52871 2009-05-19
Direcção-Geral da Saúde - SOCIEDADE INDEPENDENTE DE COMUNICAÇÃO – SIC
Broadcast advertising spot Campaign Always Smiling Vertical Integrated Program of Oral Health = 37.326,17 €
Nº 7 47739 2009-05-04
Direcção-Geral da Saúde - Utopia Azul - Produção de Filmes Ldª.
Procurement of services design, creation, filming and production of advertising spot the elusive good oral hygiene practices, Campaign Always Smiling under the National Program for Promotion of Oral Health = 35.892,96 €
Nº 8 52885 2009-05-19
Direcção-Geral da Saúde - RÁDIO TELEVISÃO PORTUGUESA – RTP 1
Broadcast advertising spot Campaign Always Smiling Vertical Integrated Program of Oral Health = 29.089,98 €
Nº 9 39594 2009-03-31
Universidade de Aveiro - Instituto de Engenharia Electrónica e Telemática de Aveiro (IEETA)
Purchase of services for development and implementation of software components, namely integration services and cross to the Information System for Oral Health (SISO) - Extension of School Health = 27.633,88 €
Nº 10 83760 2009-09-03
Direcção-Geral da Saúde - Look Concepts - Marketing e Comunicação Ldª
Graphic production of 450,000 units triptych for the campaign is always smiling under the National Oral Health Promotion = 26.350,00 €
Nº 11 38761 2009-03-27
Direcção-Geral da Saúde - LookConcepts – Communication Group
Ordering creative design and production of 300,000 triptychs Campaign Always Smiling under the National Oral Health Promotion = 24.160,00 €
Nº 12 41182 2009-04-06
Universidade de Aveiro - !UZ – Technologies, Lda.
Purchase of services for development and implementation of software components relating to the application logic and presentation layers of the application framework of the Information System for Oral Health (SISO), the Health School, under development at the University of Aveiro = 22.275,00 €

Nº 13 62698 2009-06-22

Universidade de Aveiro - Instituto de Engenharia Electrónica e Telemática de Aveiro (IEETA)

Purchase of services for development and implementation of software components within the Information System for Oral Health (SISO), relating to editing features Diagnosis and Treatment Plan and Change Logs Diagnosis, Treatment Planning and Treatment layers related to integration services and cross-application framework of SISO, under development at the University of Aveiro = 10.480,16 €

Nº 14 62711 2009-06-22

Universidade de Aveiro - !UZ – Technologies, Lda.

Purchase of services for development and implementation of software components within the Information System for Oral Health (SISO), relating to editing features Diagnosis and Treatment Plan and Change Logs Diagnosis, Treatment Planning and Treatment on the application logic and presentation layers of the SISO application framework under development at the University of Aveiro = 9.280,00 €

Nº 15 52860 2009-05-19

Direcção-Geral da Saúde - ZON – SIC NOTÍCIAS

Broadcast advertising spot Campaign Always Smiling Vertical Integrated Program of Oral Health = 9.144,62 €

Nº 16 87945 2009-09-17

Direcção-Geral da Saúde - LookConcepts - Marketing e Comunicação Ldª

Distribution of 450,000 leaflets (Triptych) regarding Campaign Always Smiling under the National Oral Health Promotion = 6.750,00 €

Nº 17 21489 2009-01-26

Administração Regional de Saúde do Algarve, I.P. - Isabel Maria Lopes Guerra

Evaluation of the National Oral Health Promotion for Children and Youth 2008 educated = 2.200,00 €
Nº 18 21491 2009-01-26Administração Regional de Saúde do Algarve, I.P. - Laura Maria Martins de Sousa
Evaluation of the National Oral Health Promotion for Children and Youth 2008 educated = 2.200,00 €
Nº 19 21492 2009-01-26
Administração Regional de Saúde do Algarve, I.P. - Maria Emilia Leite da Assunção
Evaluation of the National Oral Health Promotion for Children and Youth 2008 educated = 2.200,00 €
Nº 20 21493 2009-01-26
Administração Regional de Saúde do Algarve, I.P. - Fernando Miguel Brandão de PinhoEvaluation of the National Oral Health Promotion for Children and Youth 2008 educated = 2.200,00 €
Nº 21 21495 2009-01-26

Administração Regional de Saúde do Algarve, I.P. - Roberto Alexandre Domingues da Costa Fernandes
Evaluation of the National Oral Health Promotion for Children and Youth 2008 educated = 2.200,00 €
Nº 22 21496 2009-01-26
Administração Regional de Saúde do Algarve, I.P. - Yussef Moahamad Abon Hamia
Evaluation of the National Oral Health Promotion for Children and Youth 2008 educated = 2.200,00 €
Nº 23 21498 2009-01-26
Administração Regional de Saúde do Algarve, I.P. - Joana Moutinho Figueiredo
Evaluation of the National Oral Health Promotion for Children and Youth 2008 educated = 2.200,00 €
Nº 24 23080 2009-01-29
Administração Regional de Saúde do Algarve, I.P. - Clarisse Neves de Almeida Machado
Evaluation of the National Oral Health Promotion for Children and Youth 2008 educated = 2.200,00 €
Nº 25 25436 2009-02-09
Administração Regional de Saúde do Algarve, I.P. - Paula Manuela Gonçalves da Cunha
Evaluation of the National Oral Health Promotion for Children and Youth 2008 educated = 2.200,00 €
Nº 26 26591 2009-02-10
Administração Regional de Saúde do Algarve, I.P. - Ana Filipa Horta Martins Santos
Evaluation of the National Oral Health Promotion for Children and Youth 2008 educated = 2.200,00 €

Transparência na AP

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This list, summarized, illustrates a set of awards under the programs implemented by the Oral Health Directorate - General Health. A careful reading of the data and especially for those to whom services were awarded raises a series of questions regarding their procedure taking into account the ratio of these entities and slashing the budget involved.
It is astronomical sums, finite resources collected from the taxes paid by each of us and have no reasonable explanation of the purpose for which they were intended, as in any of the contracts are broken all acts involved oral medical treatments to children or other patients. It is very large hundreds of thousands of euros that could have been channeled to address the oral health of many thousands of people who are outside any access to oral health care.
For each of the funds, we have some curiosity to know the justification found for their realization. The funds number 1, 2, 3 and 6 imply that were used to pay for advertising to private television channels; do not understand spending resources on private television channels when the Portuguese full support with their taxes, two channels public television, as well as various regional and international channels, which send many hundreds of hours per week (enough to have opened a small space a few minutes every day in their schedule and they would have saved hundreds of thousands of euros of public money ); I do not think there is any requirement of public funds have to financially support private interests of media (at least that I have no knowledge public).
The funds number 4 and 8 do not have good reason, because you can not conceive that a public already subsidizes other public entity supported by our taxes. Furthermore, RTP does not seek to obtain any profits and their funding can never be at the expense of diverting funds from the oral health of children (act immorally accepted).
The budget number 7 would have been largely spared if you have invited, by public tender, the realization of the spot next to schools; many hundreds of audiovisual courses in secondary schools, vocational or higher education would equal or better for much less and very commitment by the actors involved.
The money numbers 9, 12, 13 and 14 leads to the question about the existence of computer centers in public administration, surely endowed with the best material and human resources in Portugal; in addition, something that we need to develop software for the program implementation? Simple computer resources on the Internet free enough and have the same range, with no need to invest financial resources escassíssimos and without any complications.
Funding 10, 11 and 16 are back to be contracted out (and curiously always the same!); If they were made in existing printers in schools or universities would also be the same price? And as high amount would not have justified a public tender?
The number 15 is extraordinary budget: payments to a television channel closed, inaccessible to the overwhelming majority of its population. Obviously without comment.
The funds number 17 to 26 suggest that there is a lack of human resources in the Regional Health Administration of the Algarve to do the homework.
For all these reasons, I submit this post to the Court of Auditors.
In conclusion, I know the investment of public funds in this Blog, throughout its existence - any money.

454. Cavities are more likely in children who do not take breakfast

2011-06-23T00:09:00.004+01:00

A study of Vital Dent Clinics reveals that children between two and five years, who do not take breakfast in the correct way to present a risk four times more likely to have cavities compared to those taking a balanced breakfast. The study also reveals that half the children who have a proper breakfast, not brushing your teeth after eating foods high in sugar.

A large number of children go to school without taking breakfast without the parents understand the serious problem this may cause, not only in school but also in oral health. On the one hand, many children who skip the first meal of the day tend to eat between hours, sugary foods, increasing their risk of developing cavities.

On the other hand, it is normal for parents, due to lack of time and the impatience of children, calls for solutions easier and more attractive as consumer-friendly products, but high in sugar. There is a lack of time, it still adds the fact that kids do not wash your teeth after eating these foods.

According to the latest study conducted by Vital Dent Clinics on oral health for children, only one in five children (57%) say they brush their teeth after eating foods high in sugar, while 30% say they do it only once in a while and 13% never.

Do not forget that sugar is the greatest enemy of our teeth as plaque turns it into an acid which destroys tooth enamel. When this cover is disappearing gradually softening for its leaves to protect them and allows the bacteria in the mouth causing caries attack and therefore pain.

Children's education as the best prevention - education based on healthy habits and monitor what children eat helps protect them against decay. If you take the early breakfast properly, the body will get used to it and will require a good breakfast every day, preventing the extreme consumption of sugar.

It is important to create the smallest habits for a healthy diet. We recommend it for the snacks, children who consume fruit juices or fruit and a few sweets, advises João Azevedo, dentist Vital Dent Clinics. In addition, to prevent cavities is necessary for parents to teach children to brush their teeth after meals. Using a soft brush, floss and toothpaste rich in calcium and fluoride should not miss the daily cleaning of the smaller adds.

Vital Dent Clinics, such as oral health experts recommend that children take a full breakfast and balanced, composed of dairy foods, carbohydrates and fiber, protein and fruit.

Destak.pt

453. Crisis brings thousands to treat teeth in colleges

2011-06-19T00:15:00.004+01:00

The crisis is leading more people to seek dental treatment made by students in colleges at reduced prices. Last year, there were more than 65 000 queries only in Lisbon and Porto.

In the Faculty of Dental Medicine, University of Porto, the price of consultations varies between 15 and 25 euros. But the same crisis that leads more people to these services means that many here also begin to avoid the more expensive treatments.

On the third floor of the School of Dental Medicine, University of Lisbon (FMDUL), almost only hear the noise of the equipment of more than one hundred students of the fourth and fifth years. Patients appear rested in the hands of students: the intervention starts only after an assessment of the clinical history and each new step is only given after approval of the teacher.

There, held annually around 40 000 consultations. No one can pass to the next stage without being checked and signed by us, explains the Rosário Mexia, one of the assistants of the Faculty of Dentistry. The teacher was part of the first class of students and ensures that faculty who have never seen anything serious.

In Porto, the clinic director, Paulo Melo, remember that students start at the simplest acts and as they gain experience and knowledge going forward. In 2009, there were about 25 000 consultations.

In schools there is a moral obligation to provide excellent service to the community, says the president of the student association FMDUL, Diogo Monteiro. Without the pressure of commercial clinics, dentists may further discuss the history and appeal to various specialists who are full professors, assistant professors, he stresses.

Maria do Carmo Silva, 48 years old, found this service for three years. I have been through several hands and I have no reason to complain. They are friendly and very concerned. I've done here some treatments are so complicated and careful than ever to connect me to know how I'm reacting.

The issue price is also an asset. Queries are much more economic and, in times of crisis, it also has, he admits.

Diário de Notícias

452. Dentists are associated with pediatric oral health

2011-06-12T19:48:00.004+01:00

In 2008, young people under the age of fifteen, on average, three decayed, missing or filled. An average high, which results from the very lack of prevention in children. Alert pediatricians to oral health is the aim of the Society of Pediatric Dentistry.

The first Iberian congress this subspecialty of dentistry intended to give some light to pediatricians, doctors, dentists and dental hygienists on how best to deal with the little ones. The oral health of Portuguese children is improving, but there are data that fall short of targets set by the World Health Organization and the levels achieved in the Nordic countries, for example, explained to JN Luis Pedro Ferreira, vice president of the Portuguese Society of Pediatric Dentistry.

The meeting was aimed precisely for that alert. Created a year ago, the company has teamed up with former Spanish counterpart to take the city of Porto several international experts in pediatric dentistry. Yet the idea persists that it is not necessary to treat the teeth. It's a huge mistake. If the occlusion is not balanced, for example, will constrain the growth of the jaw bone, it will create problems chewing at a time when children have to absorb as many nutrients and can also create problems of diction, the dentist explained that if sub specialized in Barcelona.

Is that the milk teeth appear between six months and three years old and just beginning to be replaced at six, with the remaining permanent teeth for another six years. Any infection can easily affect the permanent tooth. The Portuguese situation has improved with the implementation of the National Oral Health and admits Luis Pedro Ferreira, gained new momentum with the expansion of dental checks for children.

Jornal de Notícias

451. FDI Annual World Dental Congress

2011-06-09T17:48:00.004+01:00

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Internet address:

http://www.fdi2010.com.br/

450. Turma do Bem in Portugal, by Oral Health

2011-06-09T17:38:00.004+01:00

First of all, congratulations on the excellent blog Oral Health - Health Oral Health in Portugal: news and reviews that bring to light the reality that lies in the oral health of Portuguese. For the same reason, I am grateful for the tremendous source of information and intelligence about the reality of this.

But I write to say that Turma do Bem, whose mission is to change society's perception on the issue of oral health and dental class in relation to social and environmental impact of its activities carried on through our main project, the Dentista do Bem. Founded by a dentist in 2002 in Brazil, a country where the people also suffer from lack of quality public services and the other option are the private dentists: a professional class exploited and undervalued.

Through this innovative project volunteer networks, recognized internationally, we change this reality, little by little: since 7000 are free dentists serving 12,000 children. And other projects such as the Liga do Dentista Limpo or the Dentista Verde bolster and inform our Dentistas do Bem on important issues, run over to everyday life.

Below are links of our documentaries that reflect our struggle and can be viewed on Youtube:

Dente por dente:
http://www.youtube.com/turmadobem#p/u/16/uHSl_mg6LLU
Festa do Biscoito:
Part 1 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEKs3YkMuNg
Part 2 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwG8dL3nnM4

We are expanding internationally, we are already present in eight other Latin American countries and with the support of the EDP Foundation, we are implementing the project in Portugal since March. I would love to know the author or the author of the blog, and be able to present our challenges, I believe to be the same blog Oral Health.

My sincere compliments, Murilo Casagrande

Turma do Bem Europa

Avenida Brasília - Central Tejo
1300-598 - Lisboa - Portugal
Tel: + 351 21 002 8125
Tm: + 351 92 620 8751
http://www.turmadobem.org.br/

449. Dentistry

2011-06-04T00:23:00.004+01:00

http://www.dentistry.pt/

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English translation here

448. SCHOOL DR. FRANCISCO FERNANDES LOPES (OLHÃO): Final product not approved

2011-05-26T22:36:00.004+01:00

As has been said many times here on the blog throughout the year, the final product (at least officially) Oral Health of the project was the deployment of machines that provide toothbrushes and toothpaste in the bathroom of the school. The proposal was the executive board, however, for monetary reasons, this was not approved.

As such, this product will not be done already. The group will leave everything ready for that one next year, the machines can be put in school.

Saúde Oral: Escova, Sorri, Brilha

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Extremely distressing and desperate to see a project to stay in the drawer when it comes to something that came out and worked by them. It is unfortunate that the authorities including the Regional Education Directorate of the Algarve and the Directorate - General for Health, make a clean sweep of youth initiatives and do nothing for this initiative is implemented on the ground and is an innovative project at the national level, extremely shameful attitude that these institutions are having with these young people.

However there are already tens of billions of euros in modernization of school because it is money they can be distributed to the civil contractors, whereas the oral health of children and young people can stay for the next generation, for our children's children .

This is what politicians and governments have to provide our young people.

447. Dental checks to pay for professionals

2011-05-26T22:24:00.004+01:00

The promise was not fulfilled. The dentists of the North are still waiting for payment of most of the queries given in the context of the National Oral Health. Although there is money. The chaos only regularize the services in June.

The assurance given even very recently by Assistant Secretary of State and Health was that the payment of dental checks to the professionals who treat patients referred by health centers would go on track days in the past thirty-first of March The argument to justify the delay in payment, which has dragged since October, was the inability of the regional administrations of Health (ARS) and North Center to handle the volume of requests.

The truth is that the ARS Center solved the problem but not the North. Lack of staff was the excuse, at a time when payments declined requests for treatment for children integrated in the National Oral Health Promotion (PNPSO) in May 2009. The checks were delivered between July and August, resulting in an excess volume from September. It was necessary to use external services to help manage the payments.

According to Paulo Melo, secretary general of the Order of Dentists, the situation is only beginning to be solved. From October to March were validated 59,148 dental checks, and sent to the providers billing for the 12,486 checks. The last payments relate, mostly, the billing of December, said Paul Melo. The very backwardness led doctors not to send the invoices. The accumulated debt is 285 400 euros, with a promise of settlement next week.

Only, however, accumulate checks issued since January. The official statement, said the manager, is that the standardization of payments (30 days) will be a reality in June. Already we feel the secretary of state that the promise was not fulfilled, although there is a sign of improvement. At the Center, with less volume of orders, hiring staff solved the problem, subsisting only occasional situations of minor delays. In other ARS, there was no problem.

The PNPSO allowed access to oral health care to some sections of the community through the delivery of € 40 vouchers for treatments private clinics that have joined the program. He began by covering the approximately 65 000 pregnant women annually tracked in Health Centres (not extend to those opting for private) and elderly beneficiaries of the solidarity supplement, a group whose membership remains as weak, due to difficulties of information for themselves and crossing data with Social Security. Last year was extended to children aged seven, ten and 13 years. With nearly 30 million allocated this year, PNPSO soon extends to patients with HIV.

Jornal de Notícias (April 19, 2010)

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If the Health Ministry and the Directorate - General Health wreak havoc treat such a small percentage of children and adolescents, then picture yourself as walk the rest of the Portuguese population in terms of oral health.

It was good that the Health Committee of Parliament established the chaos that is responsible for oral health in Portugal, the Portuguese tax payers to pay for work done by Members and wish to be clarified why the oral health does not work in Portugal.

446. Azorean Government invests in school health

2011-05-21T00:46:00.005+01:00

Children and young Azorean up to 18 years, will now be subject to periodic health exams, starting next school year, as part of a school health program promoted by the Government of Azores.

The Regional Health School of Health and Children and Youth was presented today at the Auditorium of the Francisco Ornelas da Câmara Integrated School House, built in celebration of World Health Day On the occasion was also signed a protocol between the Regional Offices of Health and Education and Training, establishing mechanisms for cooperation to implement this innovative program, which contemplates the realization of several tests for detecting recurrent disease in such areas as oral health, obesity, vision and hearing.

It is intended to instill in students Kindergarten to Secondary powers of autonomy, responsibility and critical spirit necessary for the adoption of behaviors and lifestyles. The Department of Health will ensure that the Health Units include health promotion in schools in their business plans, while the Regional Secretariat for Education and Training undertakes to carry out a reorganization of programs in primary and secondary, in view of development of health education in school projects and class.

Will be formed 17 teams of school health, which include a doctor and a nurse on the basis of 24 hours per week for each group of 2500 students. They may also include, these teams other health Health and Education. The Regional Government, to intervene in the prevention and diagnosis, you will contribute to the health and welfare of our children, and simultaneously, it is expected that it will substantially reduce the social and economic costs arising from screening and treatment late, said the Regional Secretary for Education and Training.

For this project Lina Mendes health school has to function as a contribution from the Government to safeguard the health of younger populations, although it does not override the role of families and carers, who are primarily responsible for the main health of their children / students.

At a later stage it is the intention of the Regional Secretariat for Education and Training to create a database to ensure that each student in the Educational System of the Azores has a personal record, which includes not only information on their schooling, but also data on their health. According to Lina Mendes, this record will significantly improve levels of school management, since, for example, when a student change schools, the new educational establishment will have immediate access to the entire school history and health of the student who receives.

Secretary to the Regional Health Plan we have a great range in terms of prevention and, perhaps, one of the most solid investments in health. According to Miguel Correia many of our children and our youth are overweight, poor diet and little physical activity practice. Furthermore the constant threat of dependency will seriously jeopardize the full adoption of healthy lifestyles.

We want our children to be seen regularly by a doctor that their health parameters are evaluated periodically, that our young people know more about health, cooking know fast food, fun and healthy, he said.

AZORESdigital

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No one understands that these projects are not national in scope and restricted to only a very small percentage of children and youth of the country. It is these things that the promoters of health, in particular organizations of dentists must act with the government, including the Ministries of Health and Education and the Directorate General of Health; have courage and take the responsibility which they compete.

While not seriously invest in oral health care in all primary schools and health centers across the country will continue to be a European country remembered for the worst conditions of the oral health of the population.

We can not continue to bury our heads in the sand and leave everything as it is the same: the worst thing that today's generation can do is limit now to the oral health of our children and grandchildren, leaving it to luck and who have become first future candidates for adults angry with the system.

445. Eight dentists false sentenced to prison

2011-05-09T10:46:00.004+01:00

Eight false dentists were sentenced to prison terms and fines in the last two years, for illegal practice and usurpation of functions, according to data from the Dental Association (OMD). The president, Orlando Monteiro da Silva, told DN that the majority of cases resulted in suspended sentences of two years and payments of fines, which were 800 to 12 thousand euros. The doctor who moved in 2008, 2009 and the first months of 2010 were 47 complaints received and accounted for 38 criminal complaints, eight of which ended in convictions. Until now, we never lose an action, he says.
Although we are faced with dozens of cases of probable malpractice, illegal practice or breach of conditions of hygiene, Orlando Monteiro da Silva ensures that this is just the tip of the iceberg. There are many cases that are not punished and others are not able to prove because of anonymous leave regrets. Although there are plenty of criminal complaints related to situations involving risk of hygiene and sanitation, about 80% are due to cases of usurpation of functions and the unlawful exercise stresses.
In the first case we are talking about situations where those involved do not have the qualifications to practice and still call themselves dentists, in the latter do not have the necessary training, such as dental or prosthetic.

The doctor points to the existence of networks of migration, with doctors who are illegally in the country and are not registered in the Order. Sometimes there are colleagues who are registered and that cover the situation. These doctors come to jump in clinical practitioner of a particular group or to work only three or four months. In any case, there are situations of Portuguese and foreign professionals who are trained but not registered in the OMD or not equivalence asked about the course of another country.

The OMD have campaigned with the authorities in connection with the verification of the units and professionals. The doctor also requests that users, when in doubt, ask the physician's professional identification card and verify the identification of the clinic. The future aim is that people can see a site where doctors are enrolled in the institute.

The complaints and denunciations related to hygienic and sanitary conditions imply a joint work with public health authorities, which may determine the closure of units, even if temporarily. This year alone, ten were closed clinics and offices, but we estimate that there are 30 to 40 closures per year, added the president.

There are many situations that are not used in medical devices allowed. Example is the use of dental implants counterfeit, without certification. They are often low-cost materials that can jeopardize the health of the patient. The complaints stem both from clients and doctors and more health professionals, among others.

Diário de Notícias

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The exercise of dentist as well as all professional activities as they relate to oral health is vital to human health, a simple mistake or negligence can come to constrain the ongoing life of a patient, which can assume disastrous repercussions and negatively affect a person's life. Now imagine if such errors or neglect or are committed on young children and the effects that might ensue for the rest of their lives, both physically and psychologically.

It requires a vigilant and permanent authority over all places wherever they make dental care, the ongoing surveillance is the golden rule and safeguard public health.

All dental professionals should have all his professional activity covered by insurance, vocational training should be mandatory and required annually for the professional oral health can continue to carry on its business.

The state shall never allow the pursuit of activities related to oral health if they do not comply with the rules listed above.

444. Over 400 young dentists emigrated to England

2011-05-03T18:10:00.004+01:00

There are graduates in dentistry to win around 500 euros. Others, the percentage paid, earn even less. Blame it on the over-licensed, which requires them, often, to look abroad. Only in England are already over 400.

The complaint came from the newly-formed Union of Dentists (SMD), which warns of the difficult integration of young graduates in the labor market. A risk for which the Class Order (OMD) has been warning for some years, before the proliferation of college courses. Portugal now has seven faculties, in which they enroll each year by half a thousand students.

There is an enormous amount of dentists, admits Antony Roseiro of SMD, refusing, however, talk too much. What is excessive is the lack of care, with access to oral care still restricted for much of its population. For lack of oral care in the National Health Service (S.N.S.) - that the program of dental checks only solves a small part of.

On his side, the president of the Dental Association (OMD) prefer even talk too much. Portugal has the most dentists in a country with the accessibility of oral care as our own. Orlando Monteiro da Silva says that there is still the misconception that dentistry is like the rest of medicine and has good job opportunities. It is not quite so.

Result: some willing to work with low salaries, but being an independent profession, free and independent, no agency can interfere in the matter. In 98% of cases, are professionals who work in offices or own the green receipt. Why accept such conditions? Because they are afraid to talk, says António Roseiro. Hence the lack of resources for ongoing training which is essential in the profession, he assures. That leaves the solution of emigration. Only in England three months ago, more than 400 Portuguese were recorded in their bar, ensures the president of OMD. And there's more elsewhere.

Jornal de Notícias

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The result of decades of health policies pursued by the Ministry of Health, sponsored by the Directorate - General Health and praised by the central block in the National Assembly are definitely lead to chaos for the provision of oral health care in our country. The destruction of what remains of oral health services within the S.N.S. (National Health Service) and the delivery of public health responsibilities of the private economic interests of groups that seek to profit only now beginning to directly affect their own oral health professionals trained in our country.

It is unacceptable to the direct exploitation of young dentists in Portugal, made by clinical and economic groups, with the convenience of the government entities that oversee nothing and leave the working relationships of these highly qualified professionals in situations quite precarious and subject to all kinds of exploitation .

Welcome to the Syndicate of Dentists, is also time to dentists and other oral health professionals to demonstrate firmness and determination in oral public health policies of our country and give a red alert convincing the government to the urgent need for change deep current policies in the area of oral health, starting quickly to the need to evaluate the social role played by these professionals.

443) Project aims to take care of the oral health of disadvantaged children and pregnant

2011-05-03T17:51:00.004+01:00

It is shameful the swamp of oral health in Portugal and unfortunately something that has to do from private initiatives and voluntarily.

It is urgent positions in defense of the needy and victimized by the system; oral health should be made available to all Portuguese people in equal circumstances.

The Government, the Parliament and DGS (Directorate - General for Health) need to take urgent measures to put an end to the tremendous inequalities in access to dental care that exist today in our country. It is urgent and needed a major overhaul of current policies in order to channel resources for medical care and empty amorphous bodies that represent costs and have zero value - added to improve the oral health of the Portuguese, the same financial resources can and should allow very best care and oral health.

It takes place on an equal footing the public and private sector, both have to provide minimum services to the population quality in terms of oral health, without discrimination based on income, social class or age of the people.

Is urgent to start promoting preventive oral health, right from infancy, and institutionalize an urgent bulletin Individual Oral Health; see examples made in other countries, much less developed than Portugal but we take many years to advance in terms of oral health.

Eliminate programs were contracting, authentic blue bags are nothing more than mere handouts that solve nothing and let everything stay the same.

Dentists are trained in the country at the expense of taxes of all Portuguese have to be of service to the entire population; its various organizations, all levels are responsible for the good of public health and forcefully denounce and repudiate in the strongest terms the use of oral health as a means of enrichment and manipulation by multinational corporations and economic groups, which severely degrade the accessibility of dental care to those who have more needs and can not do so for economic reasons.

Only then can we have better oral health in Portugal, without this meaning any increase in health spending in the budgets of the country.

If you are unable to act, then put your jobs on offer and let others do more and better.

Gerofil

442) Health risks in one of every three dental

2011-04-27T12:24:00.003+01:00

One third of dental clinics have hygiene conditions that may generate danger or serious risk to public health. The bottom part of the report of the Inspectorate of Health Activities (IGAS) under the supervision of a private doctor, made with the support of the Dental Association (OMD). Of the 36 clinics surveyed, 12 were targeted by public health protective measures, including closure.

Hygienic conditions were, indeed, one of the central points of what is the first research done in the area of private dentistry. All 36 clinics surveyed had deficiencies in facilities or in conditions of hygiene, which led to recommendations.

Orlando Monteiro da Silva, president of the OMD, told DN that the situations were not sufficiently serious to undermine the activity, unlike what happened to the 12 units above. Three of them had to close, joined by two more who did so in part because of problems in X-ray.

Most of these irregularities (20% of the sample) involved the materials, which were destroyed right at the moment. Examples are knife blades, or drugs out of time.

Research involved 36 units of the five regions of the country, most of which already had led to complaints IGAS. The Ministry of Health and the OMD emphasize, however, that the early universe involving 46 units, but was eventually reduced. Orlando Silva says that many of these units have closed, but had knowledge of the inspections. We know that some clinics were part of a group.Inspectors also found that 13 clinics had no liability insurance for professionals, a number that reaches 71% of the units when the insurance refers to the overall site activity, which can be tricky if you need to pay compensation. Anyway, this and other irregularities, the passage of IGAS prompted immediate changes after the review.
It is an old problem. No clinic is licensed, despite a 2001 law directs. At the time, nine of 36 clinics had made the request, however, still had no answer. This problem is due to the fact that the law has not been regulated, a situation he expects resolution.
Also the X-ray equipment is to license: license had six, seven already had requested and 22 were illegal.
Positive was another essential component of surveillance: the professionals. Of the 123 dental units, 118 had a professional record. Of the five dentists, four were qualified. The remaining cases were in process of being resolved. Most dentists (99), which join two dentists, were under the provision of services.
All units were managed by medical directors, 64% of whom physically present. But only 40% had designated a surrogate of charge if necessary.
Diário de Notícias
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In Portugal, take care and always think twice before you cross the doors of any medical or dental office, beware, because nothing guarantees that come out worst in terms of health.
This not to mention the technical breakdown of the value of consulting for several fictitious receipts and other consultations (practice residual), the promise of higher reimbursements for social security or insurance companies for patients - so easily able to exacerbate the costs of treatments.
Gerofil

441) For the attention of UNICEF and organizations defending human rights in Brazil

2011-04-17T00:04:00.003+01:00

UNICEF Brazil - Home Page

Organizations defending human rights in Brazil

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By the facts mentioned it is requested that the Brazilian court acted in accordance with the practical actions by the dentist Wilson Oliveira Santos on the lowest César de Oliveira, serving as example for the entire dental community.

Given the barbaric acts carried out on human minor, fully twenty-first century, calls it the Brazilian justice system that is relentless in the trial of that dentist, so that may be equivalent to who committed heinous crime.

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Justice offers benefits to dentist

pulled all the teeth of student

Justice will propose to the dentist Wilson Oliveira Santos conditional suspension of the process that it responds in the second criminal court of Justice of the Federal District and Territories (TJDFT). Judge Geilza Fátima Cavalcante Diniz scored for the May 20 hearing to offer the benefit provided by law for offenses with a penalty not exceeding one year.

The dentist responds to criminal prosecution for having pulled all the teeth of student Cesar de Oliveira, 17 years on 23 September. The boy's mother, Maria Oliveira Aldenora, denounced the case in the fifth police station in the second half of last year. After hearing the witnesses and have the report of the Institute of Forensic Medicine at hand, the delegate Laércio Rosseto became convinced that it was very grievous bodily harm with intent. In the opinion of the police, the doctor would have tearing teeth healthy adolescents.
But when the case reached the hands of the promoter Diaulas Ribeiro, the Prosecutor's Office of Defense Health, perceptions have changed. Last September, after interrogating Wilson Oliveira for four hours, the prosecutor Diaulas Reddy felt that the professional acted negligently and not intentionally.

DN Online

440) A toothbrush with paste incorporated

2011-04-11T00:28:00.003+01:00

A toothbrush with paste incorporated is the business idea of a group of students in 12th grade, class C, socioeconomic, High School of Baixa da Banheira, who was one of the projects selected to represent the country at the international event NOW -YE EUROPE TRADE FAIR 2010 LISBON, which took place on 19, 20 and 21 March in Colombo Shopping Centre, in Lisbon, with the participation of 23 countries. Participation in this international trade fair came under the Program The Company of Junior Achievement - Learning to undertake, which is taking place at school, in classes of Project Area.

A team of students of Secondary School, creators of the mini-company Hi! Brush (Valódia Lopes, Cliff Duarte, Gonçalo Assunção, Soraia Ramalho and Ana Catarina Almeida) presented a unique and innovative in the context of entrepreneurship and has been chosen to attend the fair, which this year took place in Lisbon between the six teams chosen to national level to represent the country.

According to Professor Cristina Santos, coordinator of the project, participation in this international trade fair was very important for students to school and for the county, in every respect. The student feedback was very positive, especially through sharing of experiences that this initiative allowed. Secondary School Students from the Baixa da Banheira will now participate in a competition of mini-enterprises created by students around the country, which will take place the first week of June and which will leave the mini-winning company that will represent the country in the competition Europe to be held in Italy, 20-23 July.

It is recalled that the City of Moita gave a financial support amounting to 500 euros in this group of students in order to contribute to their participation in this initiative.

Rostos On-line

439) Oral Health and the civil society movement

2011-04-07T00:54:00.003+01:00

The Oral Health is clearly interested in strengthening the campaigns aimed at drawing the attention of the authorities to the urgent need to define a national strategy for oral health in order to eliminate the serious inequalities that exist today in our country.

While dynamic power born from the civil society, aims to draw the attention of Portuguese society and seek all possible solutions that may help to put oral health as a priority condition for the welfare of the human person throughout his life.

The work that lies ahead is very arduous and time consuming; awareness among authorities and the need to alert public opinion to the serious public health problems caused by disdain for the oral health of the population, especially the most vulnerable social groups, such as children, adolescents and elderly, followed by government after government, require a great effort and mobility of people who can give to this cause and who show commitment and concern for the good of civil society in general.

It is time to leave for formal contact with all organs of sovereignty that have some expertise in setting policies for oral health in our country.

If you have some spare time and can contribute to this cause for the good of all, join voluntarily to Oral Health, will gather us all together in order next weekend and define concrete steps that can be followed.

Collaborate: contact the Oral Health by e-mail address tempogero@gmail.com stating your name, occupation, location, telephone number and form of collaboration that aims to provide.

As we grow the number of people interested in this cause, will then set the following strategies and scheduled a formal meeting, a point in the country that is geographically strategic to have a greater presence of people who want to join this cause.

For Oral Health:

Gerofil

438) Board of Gaia Prevention Project presented to students in the First Cycle

2011-04-07T00:40:00.005+01:00

The presentation of the project with Gaia Smile - Oral Health Prevention - designed for students of the first cycle of the entire county of Gaia, held at the First Cycle of Primary School and Kindergarten of Maninho, in the parish of Madalena. This project is a partnership between the city of Gaia, the Vocational School of Health and Clínica Oralsaúde.

Hit the image to see the video in the Portuguese version

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It is designed with the intent to promote the acquisition of knowledge about oral health by the children of Gaia, including developing good practice on prevention among young people who attend the first round, performing screening and screening for severe cases, ending the fear of going to the dentist and encourage research on oral health in the community of Vila Nova de Gaia.
Of the surveys already carried out, approximately 50% of children have cavities and intervention is needed. The Vocational School of Health is committed to providing the local authority statistics of the results in order to inform about the status of oral health in children, said Aguiar Falcão, responsible for Health Professional School.
Under the program, approximately 12 000 children attending the first cycle of basic education will be subject to screening. In this academic year, are addressed those attending the fourth year, and next season will be extended to all elementary school students.
This initiative is part of a strategy aimed at improving municipal welfare and quality of life for people with the ability of management to the open society and involve local actors. We partner with a local entity linked to Oral Health, through a protocol with the Vocational School of Health which aims to disseminate and promote behaviors and habits in oral hygiene and health, noted Councilwoman Mercês Ferreira.

To encourage children to have good practices, was delivered to each of the Agent's Smile Kit, consisting of a small bag with toothpaste, toothbrush, dental floss and a sample of fluoride. After the student has done brushing, fluoride applied and used dental floss, screening was performed with an intraoral camera, which provides an easy observation and registration check and allows the child at the very moment, the consequences of their behavior. The results of screening are then delivered to the student, the teacher and parents, accompanied by a note, which are suggested best practices for oral health, for example, visiting the dentist, if necessary.
Portal do Cidadão de Vila Nova de Gaia

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The importance of oral health performed by a local authority, in cooperation with authorities and with social objectives.

Unfortunately these examples are very rare in the country, a special thanks to the Municipality of Gaia in the initiative.
Gerofil

437) fruit peel

2011-04-01T00:27:00.003+01:00

The Deputy Director of the Regional Directorate of Education of Lisbon and Tagus Valley, Rosaria Alves, innovated during the visit to the school's number one Coruche to give students candied pear that they had used previously on the grounds that the shell is that the most nutritious fruit. I told them even when they do not wash your teeth, eat a good apple is a good substitute.

The Cavaleiro Andante notes the good advice of the responsible DREL, hoping the children do not take them so far as to eat the shells and discard the fruit ...

Cavaleiro Andante

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Generally endorse the view Cavaleiro Andante. By the way, I suggest the Deputy Director of the Regional Directorate of Education, Rosaria Alves, who remembers to give them good advice to all elements of his family.

There have been a Minister of Health (Correia de Campos) who ordered the boys to brush their teeth to fight an infectious disease (tooth decay), we now have a director gathers the Regional Directorate of Education to recommend apples ...

There is nothing surprising in oral health in Portugal.
Gerofil

436) XXIV Conference of Dental Medicine (7 and 8 May)

2011-04-01T00:22:00.002+01:00

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Information:

Faculdade de Medicina Dentária da Universidade de Lisboa

435) 11th edition of the Colgate Oral Health and the Portuguese Society of Dental Medicine

2011-03-30T00:05:00.004+01:00

Colgate and SPEMD (Portuguese Society of Stomatology and Dental Medicine) boost in March 2010, the 11th edition of "Oral Health Month SPEMD and Colgate. "For a month, doctors and dentists dentists will conduct free dental screenings (without X-rays or treatment) to the population throughout the country, including Madeira and the Azores, with the aim of preventing the diseases of the mouth and enhance the teaching of oral hygiene among Portuguese population.

One of the messages in that professional oral hygiene is going to insist on brushing teeth. This task should be performed after each meal and before bedtime, to reduce the risk of tooth decay, gum disease and bad breath caused by bacteria lodged in the mouth and feeding of food scraps that fall between the teeth.

Not to contaminate the mouth, brushing should be done always with a clean brush and, preferably, adapted to the needs of each. Still, it is advisable to exchange brush every three months and whenever the user through a period of illness.

Oral Hygiene professionals will also be discussing the importance of the elixir and flossing. A truly effective cleaning of the mouth does not release these two objects, ideal to combat plaque, 80% of which is distributed by the tongue, palate and cheeks. Only the remainder is what is lodged between the teeth.

Irrespective of the use daily brushing, flossing and elixir, all professionals Oral Hygiene advocate regular visits to the dentist. The professional assessment of the state of dental health remains the best method of preventing oral diseases such as gingivitis and tooth decay, which does not even generate pain in its early stages.

Thanks to the last of the Colgate Oral Health and SPEMD, launched in 2000, have been performed over 100 000 free dental examinations and prevented untold potential cases of oral diseases.

To participate in the Month of Colgate Oral Health and SPEMD, interested parties can obtain details of your stick closer to his home through the blue line - 808 305 306 - between 12:00 and 23:00.

For any clarification, please contact: Emirec Comunicação - Cristina Brito; Telf: 21 301 13 90 Email: cristina.brito@emirec.pt Sociedade Portuguesa de Estomatologia e Medicina Dentária

434) Oral health makes contracts with private: More spending on health was worse

2011-03-23T12:01:00.002Z

The implementation of oral health programs using the contracting of private policy followed by the last government, has dragged down the oral health of the Portuguese.

In the case of oral health program for children and adolescents, it was not enough to convey to the public idea of a new program, in practice when it comes to replacing one program by another program, now we all know that the new program adds to further discrimination among children and young people with privileged access to that program and the other children and young people who will definitely stay away from any kind of support.

Extremely aberrant is the fact that children and adolescents may only access the program at certain ages: for the government, dental caries and other oral health problems appear in pre-defined ages.

And no one speaks of embezzled thousands of euros to promote media campaigns, as part of the media is already supported by our taxes.

Increasingly seen to indemnify the state by the oral health of the Portuguese, already almost definitely delivered to private interests who seek profit in the first place. We try to squander the last remaining resources in the National Health Service (SNS), many now see as many people as attractive source of profit and less about preventing the greater market share in the future.

One thing all agree are also: implement a bulletin Oral Health for all children and adolescents in Portugal is one thing that you can not hear because it can only be done in less developed countries as Portugal, where parents do not have sufficient income to afford the oral health of children.

The sad thing is the black spot that organizations of dentists may be leaving, to collaborate with all this farce. Does not have any strength to the country show clearly that spending more of our taxes is the worst result in oral health?

Gerofil

433) The confusion of dental checks

2011-03-17T18:31:00.002Z

National Health Service has issued half a million checks

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With nearly half a million of first dental checks already issued, the National Oral Health will now be extended to children in middle ages. An extension that is not good, since on the one hand, takes children who missed the validity of the check request in 2009 and, second, extending treatment to those that attended last year, they need more monitoring. Thus, apart from children of seven, ten and 13 years who are entitled to two or three valleys, this year's eight, eleven and 14 years of age who need to continue treatment started in 2009 may be referenced by the family doctor.

Moreover, the Ministry of Health decided to open the middle children of these ages the opportunity to once again have dental checks, once in the last school year, have seen their checks expired. At the time, the result of late delivery of the vouchers - which was valid until August 31 - many were left without treatment, as she admits herself Directorate General of Health (which yesterday issued a statement giving an account of the enlargement of PNSO). This year's checks the validity of August 31.

The Secretary of State for Health ensures that the objective in the long term is to ensure oral health care to all children and young people aged between four and 16 years. Manuel Pizarro does not advance, however, that a deadline for universal coverage. Is incremental, told JN. We have a ways to go compared to other countries, he admits.

For the other groups covered by PNSO, Manuel Pizarro speaks in reasonable compliance of pregnant women followed in the health centers, but the low participation of the elderly beneficiaries of the solidarity supplement. A delay that gives the poor access to information. We have to work on a dissemination strategy of the measure.

Checks are issued by family doctors in health centers, giving the user the possibility to choose the private practice who understands among dentists PNSO adherents. Recently, a controversy broke out involving the national debt to these professionals, a problem that is recognized by the Ministry of Health administrative services were not able to answer the flood of checks in the North and Center. But the commitment is to regulate the payments until the end of the month, ensures Pizarro.

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A genuine confusion at the level of dental checks:

- sometimes others are not bald;

- those studying in public schools are entitled to dental check, since those who study in private education is not entitled to dental check;

- Is for all children but do not know if it's for when I have more than 18 years;

- at any time to change the rules;

- the Court has already drawn the attention of the government because of dental checks are a way to further accentuate the disparities between haves and have no access to oral health;

- nobody takes the elderly to the offices of dentists;

- are appalling delays in payments to dentists.

Finally, a complete farce or shame in that nothing is meant to illustrate the design and that the Ministry of Health, Directorate General of Health and Assciação the Order of Dentists traced to the oral health of children, young and old Portuguese.

Just like to know how do you know the treatment needs of each person before even beginning the treatments. And then, if the budget allocated to each child, young or old is exhausted, who will bear the rest of the treatments?

Gerofil

432) The Ministry of Finance does not like patients

2011-03-17T18:19:00.002Z

The government is preparing to pass in Parliament and referred to the Brussels Programme of the Stability and Growth 2010 - 2013 (PEC). A careful reading of the guidelines that underlie the preparation of the final PEC overlap, immediately, a general increase in taxes paid by each family, by introducing mechanisms that will make indirect taxation substantially reduce the annual repayments.

Thus, the equitable limitation for deductible expenses and tax benefits in place of taxes on individuals (IRS), taking into account the taxpayer's income level is associated with the idea of further reducing the tax benefits to families who have, For example, higher health costs.

Unfortunately, the government seems to want to come to use taxes to penalize those who most need health care, drastically worsening the equality of all portuguese in access to medical care.

Will the government already knows who will be people who will be sick? Using people's health budget to fill holes created in other sectors can only be done by low politics who has not any notion that health is not something you can choose. Unfortunately it was not enough as the dismantling of many services provided by the National Health Service; from now will be also punished those who did not choose to be sick, not to mention the already chronically ill.

Unfortunately, the health of portuguese is actually to be getting sicker.

Gerofil

431) The dark path from childhood in Portugal (part 2 / Conclusion)

2011-03-16T00:03:00.002Z

Combining the concept of health as defined by the World Health Organization as a state of complete physical, mental and social, not merely the absence of disease, with the Universal Declaration of the Rights of the Child, we can say that Portugal is a country that is in constant violation of human rights by failing to officially recognize as a disease all the pathologies associated with oral health. In this context, our country runs over the basic rights of children and adolescents who, having no psychological maturity, are neglected by the national health service and cruelty of unpredictable consequences for the rest of their lives.

The politics of contempt made by governments regarding the prevention and treatment of diseases associated with oral health is well illustrated by an absence in Portugal, no mandatory screening of all children and adolescents at the level of dentistry. Moreover, governments will closing oral health services that will still exist in hospitals and health centers, taking advantage of the absence of a specific technique for career dentists, dentists and dental hygienists from within the civil service.

The use of service contracts with private, within the oral health, lately made by governments, shows total inaction by the Ministry of Health and Education in face and resolve the problem by putting public health in the hands of economic interests alone.

We are witnessing the delivery by the government, the responsibilities of oral health to entities that often manifest a clear lack of ethics and never showed interest in making primary prevention, usually associated with or colluding with business groups and multinationals that want to maintain the current landscape in order to ensure customers in the medium and long term.

The consequence of outrages against human dignity committed by the previous and current governments in the context of oral health, with the connivance of organizations directly and indirectly related to oral health, resulting in the worst abuses of the rights and dignity of the human person, in the latter case, are victimized by the system, since it can not choose to be born into a rich and powerful family, with all rights, and a family destitute and poor, who are denied all their rights, since they can not afford them.

While government associations and groups involved in oral health signing up to the current situation, we are daily violating the most elementary rights of the Universal Declaration of the Rights of the Child, which prevents a very large percentage of them may never have adequate oral health treatments with unpredictable consequences for the rest of their lives.

How long will you continue this atrocious policy of oral health in Portugal? After all, where is the ethics of oral health? The sensitivity for oral health problems, particularly in childhood and adolescence, requires a completely different behavior on the part of the current government and entities connected to the practice of dentistry.

Are they also expected to occur to the suicide of a child or teenager why you were denied oral health care?

Gerofil

430) The dark path from childhood in Portugal (Part 1)

2011-03-12T01:16:00.002Z

Last week was notorious for Portugal to become a country where there are children who commit suicide are victims of Bullyng in school.

Unfortunately, the degradation of living conditions of the working population, subject to all sorts of social humiliation, either in industrial relations or the relations of social integration has dramatically complicated because the family monitoring their children's education.

Increasingly witnessing the closure of a whole range of social supports neighborhood that marked the quiet environment of small rural and urban environments. The policy of strangulation of public services provided to more remote from major media centers, made by past governments, has increasingly worsened the living conditions of the overwhelming majority of the population of these areas is increasingly unprotected access to essential supplies, including to health care.

The deregulation of labor laws throw the overwhelming majority of the working classes to work schedules completely inappropriate to the educational support of children; the closure of thousands of primary schools and the concentration of hundreds of children and young people in larger school environments severely depersonalized relationship closeness between teachers and students; extending completely atrocious school hours does not translate accurately any benefit for healthy children and young people, education for health care simply does not exist in the overwhelming majority of schools, the attendance of children and youth with educational needs has been severely curtailed by recent governments.

All this reflects negatively on the personality of children and youth, today more than ever just to learn authentic machines, even though they have no capacity to do so.

The irrational disarray of basic education in the country then, no one actually knows what the capabilities that a young person should acquire by the end of his academic training and is a symptom that illustrates the dark path taken by the current rulers.

In the area of primary health care, is truly appalling what is happening in school health in the country: the overwhelming majority of the primary school makes no medical checks over the years attending school. In the context of oral health there is no control of the situation and the overwhelming majority of children and young people are never examined and properly treated throughout their school life, with appropriate consequences for the rest of his life.

In a country where many thousands annually spend billions of euros in investment return highly doubtful, the primary care of children and young people are neglected by purely educational system.

All these dramas illustrate the role and incompetence of politicians who have ruled the country since April 25, 1974.

(Continued)

Gerofil

429) Smoking causes 19 out of 20 tumors of the mouth

2011-03-12T01:08:00.002Z

Among people who develop cancer of the head and neck, 95% are smokers or have a history of smoking. The study of the Cancer Institute of the State of São Paulo (ICESP) also shows that men account for 90% of those affected, reports the Estadão.com.br website.

The survey was conducted with 327 patients at the institute. The data refer to tumors affecting the aerodigestive tract, ie, mouth, pharynx, larynx and trachea. According to the oncologist ICESP Gilberto Castro, 65% of the cases correspond to tumors in the oral cavity and pharynx.

Smoking is the main risk factor for cervical cancer. The consumption of alcoholic beverages, especially distilled, also increases risk. Generally, the two habits are associated, said Fernando Luiz Dias, head of the Head and Neck Surgery of National Cancer Institute of Brazil (INCA). The action is cumulative. The time that the patient smoked and the amount of cigarettes a day makes all the difference.

The expert explained that the problem is more common in men not only because they smoke more, but also because they are careless of their oral health. The presence of plaque and broken teeth that cause chronic trauma on the cheek, for example, also increase the risk. Infection with human papillomavirus (HPV), which occurs through sexual intercourse, can cause throat cancer.

Because they are in visible locations, these tumors can be detected early, even through self-examination. But according to the oncologist ICESP, over 70% of patients who seek treatment are already in advanced stage disease. If treated early, the chances of cure are good. But like most is late, 70% will die within five years. Often those who survive are left with consequences affecting the quality of life, he says.

In addition to lumps in the neck that lasts for more than two weeks, other symptoms of this type of cancer are red or white patches, mouth ulcers with bleeding and delayed healing, changes in voice or persistent hoarseness and difficulty swallowing.

POP - Portal de Oncologia

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Please continue to smoke. What my tax money can then be diverted to pay for the treatment of cancers that you have come to this, instead they can be channeled for the prevention and treatment of dental caries of children and young people. The Portuguese government to thank for their addiction.

Gerofil

428) How can an order to stop humiliating the Government itself?

2011-03-04T13:12:00.002Z

Government pays dentists checks without a bank guarantee

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There are thousands of dentists, especially in northern and central Portugal, to whom the State has tens of thousands of euros since last year, for services rendered in connection with dental checks. The aggrieved and indignant, saying that the government checks are bald. I know colleagues beginning their careers, which are going very badly, because, having not yet customers, had the dental checks to pay fixed costs arising from the conduct of business. Only, as the state is the first to give a bad example, bad pay, not those colleagues now have to pay up, the materials used with patients sent by the Ministry of Health, assured, to JN, a physician Porto, whom the Regional Health Administration of the North owes about six thousand euro since October 2009.

The JN contacted the Ministry of Health, regional health administrations (ARS) North, Centre, Lisbon and Tagus Valley, Alentejo and Algarve and the Order of Dentists to determine the total amounts outstanding, from the creation of dental check, in June 2008. However, only the ARS Lisboa e Vale do Tejo, unless challenged, said: 178,960 euros. The ARS that are the worst paid in the North and Centre. The best are those who pay the Algarve, Alentejo and Lisbon and Tagus Valley.

There are doctors in the North, thus far, has not received any service within the dental checks. Most, however, not received since October 2009. The João Pedro Oliveira of Clinical Cértoma in Anadia, ARS Center should, since half a year ago, about ten thousand. Ana Lampreia, Supermed Clinic, ARS Alentejo is about 800 euros. But the examples are more than many. The JN heard more than fifty dentists and all complain of late payments incomprehensibly.

Ana Filipa, Braga, says he attends a clinic where, since July 2009, patients with dental check, ARS North never came to pay him any service. Maria José Cameira, Faro, criticizes the bureaucracy leading to payments and says it takes less time to meet some patients than to fill their forms. André Neto, Alfacinha Smile Clinic in Lisbon, says that what you usually have outstanding enough to pay to an employee and who had to live with the money of dental checks had already died. Rita Barroso of Coimbra, complains of not receiving since October 2009.

At JN, Filomena Lages, ARS Center, acknowledged that unpaid invoices with about four months, but attributed some blame to doctors who meet the forms incorrectly. Antonino Leite, the ARS North blames the workload.

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427) PORTUGAL THE XXI CENTURY: The misery dragged 36 years after the implementation of democratic

2011-02-24T22:18:00.002Z

In 2009, the solidarity of readers JN reached 19 families through the line Every man is my brother. The donations helped to significantly improve some of these lives.

Help - in most cases money - contributed, for example, less shy smiles, or for someone to read or walk down the street without tripping. There were lots of requests for oral health treatments, usually very expensive and out of the National Health System were also many requests for help to buy a pair of glasses.

Every week showered aid requests to the wording of JN and most of them have already arrived without any hope or expectation of response. For many, JN was the latter. This is the case of Mary, for example, which ran many dentists who have no hope and asked All Men support to pay for dental treatment of their child. Mary said to JN have been surprised that his letter had answer.

All cards are properly analyzed, and verified the accuracy of their content. After it is published and the generosity of the readers do the rest. This year - a donation in donation - rose to 19 households.

The same item won enough for a hundred Christmas baskets for needy families.

Jornal de Notícias

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If the Minister of Health, Director-General of Health, the Presidents of the Medical Association, the President of the Dental Association and the Minister of Education had the merit to live in the very same living conditions for six months, that the people portrayed in the news and sure enough they would have a performance of health policies in the country quite different from the trading floors that continue the seven winds.

Unfortunately, democracy and equality in the day that end there are elections.

Gerofil

426) Petition CONTRIBUTION TO THE ORAL HEALTH IN PORTUGAL

2011-02-21T21:04:00.000Z

(Sign this petition here)

Internet address:

http://www.peticaopublica.com/PeticaoVer.aspx?pi=P2009N871

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To: Portugal - CONTRIBUTION TO THE ORAL HEALTH IN PORTUGAL (secular Suggestions on three topics for a national project covering Dentistry).

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I - MEDICINE IN DENTISTRY

NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE

Someday the balm of science had to come to the wounds of the suffering people Miguel Torga (April 11, 1978). When Miguel Torga anticipated that the victory would prove to be the National Health Service, would not think that part of the anatomy would be mutilated in the planning of basic health care in Portugal.

While in November 1974 to be provided in grants to launch the foundations of the National Health Service (SNS in Portuguese language) to provide free and universal health care oral, 30 years later after the creation of the National Health Service, the Dentistry is a gap indefinitely postponed in the SNS.

Since, the importance of Oral Health in the overall balance of the human body and having established the importance of dentistry in conjunction with the various medical specialties, it is incomprehensible that the provision of oral health care is ignored in the model of the Portuguese National Health Service.

Whereas the current prime minister classifies the SNS as the great social achievement of modern democracy, the conditions are created to achieve this demand was the creation of a public health system. It is essential to sensitize the state to the inclusion of Oral Health in the SNS as it complies with the constitutional imperative.

Despite the advances and retreats on the concept of a public health service in Portugal is important to alert the person coordinating the study on the sustainability of the SNS - Jorge Simões - acknowledges that the only service where there is a universality in the SNS dentistry. Moreover, it admits that the amount wasted in the conventions should be applied in the care of Oral Health.

In counterpoint to this assessment we have the shocking realization that the Health Minister, Ana Jorge, confesses that she did not know how many accounts would cost to put dentists in all health centers. Becomes more embarrassing situation when the Ministry of Health says it is faster to make agreements with the private than creating a public oral health service. This carefree ignorance is the testimony that in thirty years was not a plan for structural integration of Dental Medicine in Health in Portugal.

Knowing the basics of argumentation that led António Arnaut to create the National Health Service is easy to show that no alternative (either a system of co-payments, is a system of opting out or a system of public-private partnerships) will reduce the charges the state nor the other hand improve the healthcare provided. As the Arnaut said, such partnerships are only of interest to investors because it guarantees them, in advance, pay a profit without any risk.

Thus, the current model check-dentist, is a missed opportunity where we can see not only a waste of exchequer, as the breach of the fundamental pillars of the National Health Service: their universality and gratuity.

Is it not that the report of the World Health Organization, 2007 states that the publicly funded oral health care system in Portugal is not comprehensive. A program that demeans prevention, which emphasizes the curative treatments, which disclaims intervention at school level and does not ensure universal protection, global, multidisciplinary, and planned can only be classed as incomprehensible!

António Arnaut as advocated in May 16, 1979 (date of the closing speech of the parliamentary debate of the National Health Service) a public health project must provide for the articulation with private institutions only in exceptional cases. Adding to the enormity of euros spent (almost) inconsequential in the initiative dental check and adding funds injected into subsystems and conventions could create a public dentistry without any disruption on the State Budget.

A system of public-private partnership should be considered only in areas adjacent / extreme situations where it is not feasible to provide dental or medical services when the responsiveness of the state is insufficient to ensure the integrity of the patient. Thus, as in many other medical disciplines, the National Health Service and private health institutions should exist without jeopardizing the freedom of patient choice, the universality of care or even the survival of each of these alternatives (as is found in all medical specialties in 30 years of National Health Service).

These general remarks it is inevitable considering that the National Health Service has not yet reached their motto while dentistry is not considered as an integral part. The dentists should be viewed as an investment rather than a cost.

Thus it is crucial:

- Change the lines of thought of the Order of Dentists who finds it easier and cheaper to articulate the private clinics than to create a National Health Service with Integrated Dental Medicine (RTP1 - June 16, 2009);

- Develop a national plan of action focusing on prevention intervention at school level;

- Integrating dentistry in all health centers, family health units and other public health institutions so that these structures could be provided all the basic treatments (preventive and curative) Oral Health;

- Include Dental Medicine in emergency services of all local council and district hospitals;

- Introduce the concept of peripherals to once every dentist graduates to ensure a comprehensive coverage of oral health care (but forgotten over the explicit wishes of the outgoing Secretary-General to establish an unpaid internship);

- Insert Dental Medicine in multidisciplinary teams of central hospitals so that we can respond effectively to all clinical cases complex and differentiated.

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II - BUILDING A CREDIBLE PROFESSION

FOUNDED IN PRACTICE

Leopard dies when leaves your skin. Man dies when it leaves its reputation (Chinese proverb). Between common sense has not always existed a positive association between dentistry and the qualities of integrity, credibility and professionalism. Are mainly cultural and historical reasons that lead to this conclusion: the guesswork who cared for years the oral health of populations, such as pain symptoms who lived with the daily routine, never contributed to building the consideration that deserves Dentistry.

However, the class of dentists also has its share of responsibility in the lack of social appreciation of his work. It is for the dentist himself fighting for his credibility in the overall provision of health care. The respect of a letter should begin the exercise by themselves.

So are dentists who should develop their manual of good practices and demand, through the structures created for this purpose, the ethics and codes are applied in everyday clinical practice. Any profession organized in a cooperative has the duty to criticize the bad practice. Thus, in addition to a professional code of points in a broad sense, it is essential to create lines of concrete and explicit conduct for the various professionals.

Thus it is imperative to create a manual of best practices and structuring teams, so qualified and independent, oversee the conduct of dentists. Within this guide to good practice should include, for example, guidelines in the field of therapy since, despite the dentist have a wide option of prescription, it should limit this power to a particular therapy should not prescribe medications that are not in scope of his clinical practice. They must also dentists, through a consensus with other professional groups, and determine common areas of action distinct from dentists, doctors, dentists, medical specialists in maxillofacial surgery and to hygienists.

It is also essential to establish the legitimacy of the dentist performing the duties for which it was formed or prepared, including consultations with smoking cessation or aesthetic treatments such as botulinum toxin.

Also to structure a credible image of their profession, the canons set for good clinical practice should depart from the logic of the market that have been exposed through shocking advertising campaigns and marketing techniques. It is essential that patients can distinguish that a dentist is different from toothpaste and a retailer that logic is not applied to the provision of health services.

Finally, the credibility of the profession of dentist is also the respect that should exist between colleagues. Through legislation, dentists must enact an enabling solidarity to fight against under-employment which we realize and apply the logic of dignity among those who hired labor are hired.

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III - EXCELLENCE IN SCIENCE,

ACCURACY IN EDUCATION

Education and human capacity are synonymous (Francis Bacon). Despite his obsession with the mouth movements and the anatomy of the teeth, Francis Bacon never imagined being cited to illustrate the importance of education in the quality of dentistry. The excellence of the dentist goes through their superiority in terms of education, science and ongoing training.

At the level of education, university education is facing a big problem: way too many professionals with skills that are too fragile. If it becomes worrisome excess of professionals, more disturbing is the lack of preparation with which they leave for the labor market. Taking advantage of the Bologna Process, institutions of higher education increased the number of jobs created and multiple types of graduate school to tackle the funding problems they faced.

Thus, while it robs knowledge on pre-intentions have witnessed a declining trend of the powers conferred on graduates dentists. All this to justify the creation of specialized courses and to secure lucrative jobs in the domes of teaching. Contradictory as it seems it is taught to students today less than at the time of the firstborn Canteras.

Thus, there is urgent need to interfere constructively at the level of Higher Education. Recent history shows that self-regulation is inconsistent and the Order of Dentists to press these institutions to adapt the numerus clausus the needs of the labor market, to establish principles of excellence in school curricula and inculcate a doctrine of accuracy where inbreeding and terrorizing the students become a vague memory of the past

Moreover, for a dentist to reach a level of superiority is essential that recycle their knowledge. Thus, it is essential to promote conferences and trainings that more than vanity fairs and brands of materials, asserting themselves as scientific events of reference. This calls for an annual conference with a smaller range of subjects and knowledge that promotes quality. A smaller number of rooms centered on issues of relevance are fundamental changes to make a difference in this event. Credibility to this conference will be crucial that the inevitable events associated business move away from the decadence of a simulator game situations.

This conference, as other mandatory training which should be promoted by the Order of Dentists, should be part of a credit system upgrade required.

Like other professional bodies, the Order of Dentists (OMD in Portuguese language) should require the recycling of serious professional dentistry. Concomitantly, the dentist should be supported in their everyday clinical practice. The creation of a group of clinical decision support is a key idea to achieve the short period of time in order to assist the dentist in more complex clinical situations.

Also in this context the creation of guidelines (which are more than translations of foreign documents), it is essential to guide and protect the dentists in their practice.

To complete this triad of obtaining primacy in dentistry is essential to foster the creation of knowledge, stimulate research in dentistry and deny the doldrums of small amounts that we observe the creation of review articles.

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RECYCLE THE ORGANIZATION, INNOVATION APPROACH, dreaming about the future - Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change for men (Confucius).

The Dentistry in Portugal requires an openness to society and simultaneously to a restructuring of its guidelines. We need a new leadership with greater statesmanship. The Order of Dentists to think more globally, to defend doctors and dentists in particular, fighting for the common good of the population.

You need a break from this desire to maintain the status quo and achieve more of what is considered satisfactory. It is time to promote the prestige of the profession and to democratize access to medical and dental care. That dentistry is done according to art.

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425) Researchers from the Faculty of Medicine, University of Oporto validate dental diagnosis based on photos

2011-02-21T01:08:00.003Z

A study of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Oporto (FMUP) concluded that remote diagnosis of dental problems in children, based on photographs, is a valuable resource in the selection of who should be referred to a dentist.

The investigation has gone through two stages of evaluation. The analysis, by four dentists, three photographs of the teeth (front view, top and bottom) of 66 children aged between 4 and 6 years - each dentist completed a questionnaire based on compliance with the photos, available on the system MedQuest Developed by FMUP, indicating the oral problems screened and whether the child should or should not visit the dentist. That said, the child was assessed in a traditional dental appointment. Comparing the results of two types of evaluation, remote diagnostics (teledentistry) demonstrated a sensitivity between 94 and 100 percent and a specificity between 52 and 100 percent.

In Portugal, the smaller ones show a high prevalence of cavities in just six years, and only after this age begin their dental visits. The sooner treatment is given, earlier oral health is ensured.

Teachers themselves in school and taking photographs using the available technologies, increase the viability of oral health campaigns in schools, regionally and nationally. In the long term can think of a dental home, according to Rui Amável (Centre for Research in Information Systems and Technologies in Health-CESIMED, FMUP) and Ricardo Cruz-Correia (Service of Biostatistics and Medical Information FMUP), the study authors.

The combination of telecommunications and dentistry - teledentistry - allowed for the exchange of clinical information and images for the purpose of facilitating access to pediatric primary care. Despite this model being used successfully in many medical specialties, is not as widely accepted and used in dentistry. But the authors said the development of remote diagnostics will only benefit dental care, improve diagnosis and dental services.

Telediagnosis through digital photographic technology, presented as identifying potential dental problems and is a resource to explore.

Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade do Porto

424) The drama also oral health in the Autonomous Region of Madeira

2011-02-15T19:44:00.002Z

The Regional Health Service in our region is too serious shortcomings. Addressing the situation of Oral Health, although there was some effort to improve this service, the reality today is very dramatic. The shortcomings of users reaching desperation.
For example, students with more than 12 years, belonging to disadvantaged families or have to be very poor, are not entitled to a dental service in a prompt, efficient and, in some cases not even have no chance solve the problem of oral health. I present a concrete situation and truthful.

In December 2009, my student was in class with toothaches. Head lying on the desk with a scarf wrapped on his face. He could not stand the pain. The tears flowed on his face. He said that a few days ago was awakened by a slight pain, like worse then their poor financial resources, went to the Health Center, the family doctor who sent it to the hospital. However, despite the urgency, had no right to consult a dentist's Regional Health Service, because he already had 15 years of age.

So new query to the family doctor, one more week, then the doctor at the state and no alternative, such as toothache kept the teenager, prescribed some antibiotics and some painkillers to try to remedy the situation and thus postpone the unavoidable.

A scandal. Astounded at the story of the student and touched by the situation because the student had no social conditions for a private dentist and had too old to be treated at the hospital, I had to act.

Not part of my philosophy of life stand to watch and do nothing. Although the student was a better time, as has been numbed with drugs, but just what effect has the excruciating pain returned. There she was lost in pain. And I know what's toothache.

However, I contacted the outset, the head of the class who tried to do everything possible to resolve the problem but no solution could be through the School. The insurance did not cover the much less school social action and, therefore, the school was tied helplessly.

I remembered calling my dear friend André Escórcio to require their help. How do I know that is a man preoccupied with these situations of injustice and has more experience than me, I asked him for help.

He made his contacts and here comes a solution. The Head of the class should contact the Social Worker of the student's area of residence for this technique to make the study of family and then to prove that the family had not really economic conditions to pay a private dentist, then it prompted the intervention of the Security Social. And so it was. The social worker was contacted, made the process of family assessment, which took a few days.

The director told me in class, last Friday, that the case, finally, more than a month later, will be referred to Social Security. It will be! Today I had class with the student and asked if we had the consultation and told me, very much satisfied that everything was resolved and now all that remained to make an appointment. Has not been consulted! You still have the pain, milder, because the painkillers fulfill their role.

We are very pleased with the outcome, although dissatisfied with the delay and the time wasted on unnecessary bureaucracy. This is the reality of our regional health system. The student was lucky to have found teachers concerned and attentive to detect the state of your health and not rest until they found a solution, despite the slowness of the process. However, this is a mere case.

How this student there are hundreds unsolved.

Urbanidades da Madeira

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This case goes beyond all bounds of human dignity. I hope the authorities, notably the Ministry of Education and Ministry of Health to establish responsibility and know where the system failed. Why can not the girl was immediately referred to a dentist or a dentist?

After all what good is the school social action and the dentist's Regional Health Service?

Gerofil

423) One country, different regions and different approaches to intervention from the Dental Association

2011-02-12T01:32:00.002Z

The leader of the Order of Dentists in the Autonomous Region of Madeira stresses that there are 14 dentists working in the health centers of the region on a rotational basis. At the health center of Bom Jesus work 11 (and four hygienists, one of them within the coordination of the Oral Health Programme) and three in Porto Santo, and in Porto Moniz service delivery is done by those professionals, all days of the week on a rotational basis.

Gil Alves welcomes the announcement of one more seat (which can be a dentist or work full time on a rotating basis) in Bom Jesus and another at the health center of Machico.

It is noted that in Porto Moniz all children are served the county until the age of 18, while in the Bom Jesus only up to 12 years. In the first are also treated all adults with chronic conditions do not allow them to travel to Funchal to transact their dental treatments. In the municipality of Porto Santo care is extended to all residents.

Gil Alves also notes that are provided at the health center of Bom Jesus, school emergencies in the dental traumatology students from three to 18 years, since the academic year 2005/2006, following agreement between the SARS and the Secretariat Education.

Jornal da Madeira

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The news gets to know that the Order of Dentists in Madeira stands for a dental public health at Health Centres in the region. One day we will also apply this example in Portugal?

Gerofil

422) Father, can I be when I grow teeth dentist to treat the other children?

2011-02-12T01:15:00.002Z

The combination of the economic interests of the Government and the purpose of the Order of Dentists in the future to restrict the number of dentists could cause a drastic reduction of the accessibility of most of its population to oral health care in coming years.

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Asked about the possible recruitment of more dentists to the National Health Service, the State Secretary of Health Manuel Pizarro assured that this is not the strategy of the Ministry of Health. This strategy would mean that we would put the National Health Service (SNS) to compete with a network that already exists throughout the country offices and clinics of dentistry. From the viewpoint of general national interest that would not be a good strategy and would double the investment to substitute cooperation for competition, he argued.

To re-elected president of the College of Dentists, the improvement rates of population's access to oral health care is a top priority, but noted also the excess of dentists as a problem to solve. Unfortunately this leads many hundreds of dentists to have to find other countries to practice and obviously this is a frustration for younger doctors who see great possibilities for the profession in Portugal and this is a major problem, pointed Orlando Monteiro.

For Orlando Monteiro, the problem is solved with the adequacy of the number of vacancies in each of the seven colleges to the real needs of the country, as well as greater investment in colleges and postgraduate courses in Lusophone Countries, where there is a huge shortage of dentists. That colleges are geared more towards quality rather than quantity as for the case today, he added.

Iol Sociedade

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I want to express, first and on behalf of all oral health professionals who still work in the National Health S ervice, the biggest repudiation by the statements and intentions expressed by the State Secretary of Health Manuel Pizarro. This is a completely in opposition to the interests of the population, against all professional public that we still have in the area of oral health and only demonstrates the underlying interest to dismantle what remains of the National Health S ervice and create conditions that oral health is in the hands of private with absolute greed for profit.

More: putting the National Health Service to compete with a network that already exists throughout the country offices and dental clinics would be the best way to promote quality and reduce costs by encouraging the population. The design competition is to avoid an unnatural idea, we all studied the times of socialism in the Soviet Union and we all know what the results were.

Regarding the position of limiting the number of dentists, it is a stand against the Constitution and a clear violation of the aspirations of young people who want to come to practice dentistry in the future, it would be a serious intervention into the market oral health, would seriously undermine the overwhelming majority of its population and would contribute to strengthening the already dramatic social contrasts in access to oral health care.

Portugal, by contrast, is in urgent need of extending the offer to provide oral health services to meet the pressing needs, this is only possible with a still substantial enlargement of the number of dentists in order to reach the most remote regions geographically and contribute to better market regulation assigned to the area of health, contributing to a better quality of services and a significant reduction in costs.

In short, this time there is still a clear lack of dentists in Portugal and the fact that many leave abroad does not contribute to better oral health in Portugal, especially after having been formed at the expense of our taxes.

Better self regulation of the activity and the opening of specialty hospitals and public health centers should be the first priority to take into account both by government and Dental Association.

Does it not occur to any parent stop a child from wanting to become a dentist.

Gerofil

421) Oral health in the Project Area is the twelfth year of schooling

2011-02-07T12:01:00.003Z

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Project Area of School Francisco Fernandes Lopes (Olhão)

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The Project Area is a discipline of the twelfth year of schooling that aims, among other things, promote educational and vocational guidance of students, listing the projects developed within their context of work and career or prepare for further studies and insertion in the labor market.

It was in this discipline that this blog appeared. We are students of the twelfth grade of the course Science and Technology, School of Dr. Francisco Fernandes Lopes (Olhão), and we intend to develop over the years the Oral Health topic, focusing especially on youth.

This blog will then serve as a means of reporting all that the group will perform throughout the year and all events and initiatives that are being streamlined.

420) Portuguese children: State issued checks without dental coverage

2011-02-02T23:53:00.002Z

Father, my check bounced

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In September, Jose Carlos received a voucher to the dentist for her daughter to be seen for free at a private clinic. The date was June, but only reached him three months later. Still, he called the office and made an appointment. He managed to wave in November.

Weeks later, he received a letter home to pay for the consultation, because the check-dentist was out of time. The complaint went to the Minister of Health, through the deputy of PCP Bernardino Soares, but the check issued by the State bald father to this port is not unique.

The coordinator of the National Oral Health, Rui Calado, admits he has received several complaints. But as the computer system does not allow coupons register after the deadline, states that there is no way to know how many checks were delivered to schools after the date, or how many parents have missed the limit by accident. If it is proved that the delays were in our services or schools, to find a solution, he asserts.

I on Line

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The simplest formula to humiliate the parents of children who require dental checks of the National Oral Health aimed at children and young people.

Gerofil

419) Which way forward for the Order of Dentists?

2011-01-27T19:24:00.002Z

Portugal remains in the XXI century, without defining a strategic policy in the context of oral health. Governments continue to simply ignore the importance of oral health for the well-being of people and many hundreds of thousands of children and young people remain without any prospect of having access to oral health consultations in good time. Our country continues to discriminate against the citizens' access to oral health care, violating any principles of human dignity, not respecting international conventions it has signed, including the Charter of the Rights of the Child.

Currently, Portugal, oral health is only accessible to the privileged social classes, including the bourgeoisie, allied to political power and economic force, the overwhelming majority of the working class, pensioners, retirees and dependents are manifestly unable to gain access to oral health by SNS (National Health Service), which offers no answers to the needs of the population.

We all know that there is lack of economic resources, the problem lies solely in the bad government we have today, heavy and overly bureaucratic and administrative, stealing billions of euros annually from our taxes to support jobs that simply do not produce anything for the country, all this money should revert to the pressing needs of the population and the state should dramatically reduce many cabinets full of unproductive people who are useless to a country that wants to be modern and developed, persists while the current model of public administration.

It's completely false the idea that it is extremely costly to create a national network of oral health care in all health centers in the country, this mercantilist conception of health has no pertinence, because health can not be bought or sold. We all know that oral health prevention can save a fortune endless financial resources in the medium and long term, so that any investment made today will quickly be amortized in the future, augmented by huge gains in health improvement.

In this regard, the crucial position of the Order of Dentists; it should have to choose between the option of continuing to let everything be as it is or if you really want to contribute towards radically changing the policies followed by oral health in Portugal.

The choice is simple: to continue being a country where only the privileged have access to oral health, given that only have the private profit interests and see oral health as a business (doing nothing to prevent and combat oral diseases In order to guarantee themselves a niche market in the medium and long term, constituting an obstacle to any improvement in overall oral health of its population and behaving as in most third world countries, where economic interests overlap social interests), or changes its direction and understand oral health as well as an essentially social (not economic), elementary and fundamental to all people, fighting for full integration of oral health in the SNS (National Health Service) and the universality of access to all citizens, without discrimination on the basis of their economic possibilities and striving for a clear and manifest soon prevention of childhood.

Is the Order of Dentists to match the requirements of civil society and population, not to be swayed by the interests of the political regime installed and the economic groups, the first only interested in hunting to vote and to be perpetuated in power and only the second win in money in return for public health?

Gerofil

418) Involution of oral health in the National Health Service

2011-01-27T18:48:00.002Z

Oral Health is arguably a decisive element in the general welfare of the people and the attitude of compartmentalization, which involves a view of the mouth in the non-holistic or integrated, is the cause of negative and sometimes permanent changes in the overall health of individuals, thus In their quality of life.

Oral diseases are the most common chronic diseases. Moreover the current Portuguese Constitution states:

Article 64. º Health

1. Everyone has the right to health protection and the duty to defend and promote.

2. The right to health protection is achieved:

a) through a national health service and general and universal, taking into account the economic and social conditions of citizens require;

b) the creation of economic, social, cultural and environmental conditions that guarantee, inter alia, the protection of children, youth and old age, and the systematic improvement of living conditions and working as well as the promotion of physical culture and sports in schools and popular, and for the development of health education for the people and practices of healthy living.

3. To ensure the right to health protection, primary duty to the State:

a) ensure access for all citizens, regardless of their economic circumstances, care of preventive medicine, curative and rehabilitative;

b) ensure a rational and efficient coverage of the whole country in human resources and health facilities;

c) to guide its work for the socialization of the costs of medical care and medicines;

d) to regulate and supervise the business and private forms of medicine, linking them to the national health service, to ensure, in the institutions of public and private health, adequate standards of efficiency and quality;

e) to regulate and control the production, distribution, sale and use of chemical, biological and pharmaceutical products and other methods of treatment and diagnosis;

f) establish policies for preventing and treating drug addiction.

4. The national health service is decentralized and participatory management.

Thus, regardless of what the Constitution calls for the country as we saw in relation to other areas of Health, the State generally better or worse, has been met, but now with regard to the area of oral health, may said that there was a regression in relation to what existed before April 25, 1974. To date, the New State contained in the ranks of the former Provident Fund offices of Dental Medicine, where they were practiced at least some basic treatments.

But after April 25, although in the new Health Centres then created, some of them want United States aid, both from Sweden and Norway, contained offices of Dental Medicine, which gradually came to be dismantled, not giving the opportunity to new dentists in abundance that started coming out of colleges, would eventually be integrated into the SNS, just like the other clinical areas of health, to provide functionality to such offices, providing access to oral health care to the general Portuguese population, which is the same as bald as the fundamental law of the country so determines.

Knowing the state Oral Health of individuals produces significant effects on their quality of life and that some aspects of oral pathology has implications:

Not only Physics,

- How Psychic,

- And turn Social.

Consider:

a) Some studies have shown that a child affected by caries at 3 years of age have on average less than one kilogram of a child without caries;

b) The occurrence of infection and pain can change their eating habits and sleep disturbances (irritability);

c) The estimated number of hours lost from school for reasons related to oral health is 117 000 per 100,000 children;

d) These impacts daily activities are not limited to the individual, also end up affecting your family;

e) Thus also the society in general.

We also know that the whole cascade of problems associated with oral diseases are not limited to younger age groups may be even more significant in the elderly, who experience rates of edentulism (missing teeth), which ranges from 30 to 70% as communities, treatment practices and the availability of rehabilitation (technical and budget). It will be noted that the dietary choices of elderly individuals are often compromised and thus may cause significant nutritional deficits.

One of the aims of the Primary Health Care is the reduction of social inequalities among individuals, especially in relation to health, will therefore be necessary to increase the attention on Oral Health Care, for accessibility to such care can translate into valid results and staff for the General Health of individuals. However, the lack of Oral Health Professionals (Doctors and dentists Dentist) in the overwhelming majority of the Portuguese Health Centres and the limitations of Oral Hygienists in the treatment of some diseases of the oral cavity have led to one of the lowest rates of dental treatment Europe, a fact perfectly compatible with policies for the budgeting of the Portuguese Ministry of Health Oral Health of 0.0035% of the total budget.

In contrast to the previously mentioned:

- Some studies have classified as oral treatments rooms most expensive of all treatments;

- Many developed countries spend between 50-10% of its budget for Public Health Oral Health. As examples, in some Spanish provinces, the rate of oral treatment in children and adolescents over 80%.

In our country, by order No. 153/2005, 5 January, which set the objectives of the National Oral Health Promotion (PNPSO) reducing the incidence and prevalence of oral diseases in children and young people, improving the skills and behavior about oral health and promoting equity in the provision of oral health care to children and youth with special health needs, was underway by 2007, a School Oral Health Program, in which dentists or dentists, received per patient € 75, they had many or few treatments to do, ie, the state appealed, and appeals to the excess supply / demand and a competitive way, to make oral health, on top of the current agreement with OMD (the Medical dentists), which I think is not the correct path, as many times as it takes into disrepute by encouraging the neglect and poor professionalism on the part of many professionals who get caught in the flurry of others that go every year for a multitude of Colleges (7), given the present needs of the country, without regulatory frameworks in fact, whether existing medical associations, unions, or more recently the Regulators, are forced to participate in these campaigns opportunistic Ministry of Health, the Conventions and even the insurance companies, each with its own rules and tables obsolete and limiting, in a true chaos of service offerings and economicíssimo maladjusted to reality.

More recently, from 2008, with the order No. .4324/2008, 19 February, was given the extension of the PNPSO two other groups deemed particularly vulnerable (pregnant women and elderly people in need) and developing an intervention strategy oriented to the provision of oral health care to a much larger number of children and youth. So PNPSO, now covers:

1 - Pregnant women followed in the SNS - Sum of assigned dental checks (maximum 3) can not exceed 120 € (the execution of the treatments can be completed within 60 days after delivery);

2 - Beneficiaries of the solidarity supplement for older users of the SNS - Sum of assigned dental checks (maximum 2) may not exceed 80 € per year;

3 - Children and Youth under the age of 16 years - Sum of assigned dental checks (maximum 2) may not exceed 80 € per year.

For the purposes of Removable Prosthodontics, there is a financial contribution to 75% of expenditure for the purchase and repair of removable dentures for up to € 250 per period of 3 years.

Conclusion:

From everything stated above and given the disclosure of data to check the current OMD, the Sun newspaper on 13/11/2009, the number of users of the SNS has benefited from 305,382 to date, so here is concludes that although the Portuguese population is of a few million (Portugal, including Azores and Madeira an estimated population of 10,529,255 people - INE estimate of the December 31, 2004, representing a population density of 114 persons per square kilometer ) the number of users above treated under the SNS National Programme for the Promotion of Oral Health (PNPSO) is negligible if not ridiculous, and this program does not comply with what is recommended in the fundamental law of the country, since the point of view of oral health, citizens are being treated in a preventive, curative and rehabilitative, equally universal and tend to free.

Clínica Dento-Médica - Dr. Sílvio Ribeiro, Ldª.

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SNS - National Health Service in Portugal

417) Audit says dental checks discriminate patients in defiance of the law

2011-01-20T13:12:00.002Z

Were announced in 2007 as the first step in providing the population oral health care - so far lacking in National Health Service but the Court of Auditors (CT) believes that dental checks issued by the previous Socialist government for children, youth , pregnant and elderly low-income violate the principles of universal and equitable access to health care.

The audit now published on the National Oral Health states that were not covered all children and young people of school children from three to 16 years, nor those attending public schools, with no explicit legal basis. And he makes the recommendation to Health Minister Ana Jorge, to ensure the legality, extending this service to all users.

Between 2006 and 2008 - the year the program was done under contracts with dental practices - the TC indicates that 95% of the school population has not benefited from the program, which shows a lack of efficiency and universality. Until they were provided 15 million and were used only 11.7 million euros.

This is just one of several repairs left by CT. The audit says the funding is not clear nor transparent (because it is divided by three institutions) and stresses that only two Regional Health Administrations have programs for quality assessment. The audit concludes that even in the face of not conducting periodic inspection or verification of establishments and clinical audits of care provided, there are risks associated with passenger safety and confirmation of care paid by check.

The TC raises doubts about the price paid for each treatment - which was negotiated with the Order of Dentists, but not based on any study - and makes a broad set of recommendations. From the choice of healthy foods in schools with measures that discourage the free sale and products harmful to oral health in the vicinity.

On the issue of universality, the Ministry responded to the progressive nature of the program, taking into account the existing budget, and the choice of a population more vulnerable to kick-start initiative. As the proposed measures for schools, states, several contradictory points outside the competences of that Ministry.

Rute Araújo
iOnline

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Truly disturbing the findings of the Court of Auditors, in addition to any irregularities and disregard for the equal treatment of all citizens (even worse when done by the state), is deeply regrettable that the program annually reaches only one in every twenty children.

Translating in other words, this oral health program implemented by the governments of the Socialist Party will not reach all children within 20 years, that if anyone born in Portugal in two decades, and assuming that some of the existing children have access to the program since then having completed 30 years of age.

Gerofil

416) Institutional advertising: 'Always Smiling' costs 385 000 €

2011-01-16T22:06:00.002Z

The Directorate General of Health (DGS) spent 384,933 euros on the campaign 'Always Smiling'. The 11 contracts, which include production of a video and pay television advertising time to, were all made on the basis of direct negotiations, ie without recourse to contest. The acquisition of the design services of an advertising spot, alluding to good oral hygiene practices within the National Programme for the Promotion of Oral Health, was hired for Utopia Filmes and cost the coffers of DGS 35 892 euros.

By issuance of this branding campaign in May, the DGS has paid 29,098 euros to RTP, 37,326 euros to SIC, 53,604 euros to TVI and 9144 euros to ZON - SIC Notícias. In September, the video where kids talk about their dental checks, again appeared on several television channels. By this time, the DGS has paid over 49,524 euros to RTP, 54 539 euros to SIC and 58 581 euros to TVI. The lead time on all contracts was 21 days.

Beyond the advertisement was still contracted to the company Look Concepts creative design services for brochures, on three occasions. In total 57 260 euros was paid for about one million of tryptic informative.

On day 12 the Portuguese Court of Auditors criticized the funding model of the Oral Health Programme, which in his opinion has not been structured in a transparent manner.

Correio da Manhã

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This action disclosure of a program already fallen into disrepute and contrary to the principle of equity in the provision of oral health care is absolutely disgraceful and unacceptable in any civilized country. How can the Directorate General of Health sizes promote waste resources by allocating funds to RTP is a public company, already supported by public funds or private media?

This is purely criminal acts by withdrawing funds that were to be fully spent on medical care, severely hindering so unspeakable, the scarce resources allocated for oral health in the National Health Service (SNS) to the overwhelming majority of its population.

Instead of investing for example by granting funds to schools and giving an oral health card to each child and teenager in the country, the Directorate General of Health, with the connivance of the Ministry of Health and the passive role of the Order of Dentists, proclaims a discredited program of oral health in jeopardy by the Court Portuguese, filling the pockets of money to some media colluded with the current political regime and robbing the expectation of access to oral health of many hundreds of thousands of children and adolescents country.

Gerofil

415) Statistic 2009

2011-01-16T22:05:00.002Z

414) SPAIN: Examples of investment in oral health

2011-01-13T22:48:00.003Z

The Dentibús reached Albacete, offering free dental checkups for the entire population - Closer to the population, educate and raise awareness about the oral care and prevention of oral diseases. This is the objective pursued by another year the coach of oral health in the Plaza del Altozano of Albacete, a project organized by the Official Board of Dentistry and Stomatology in collaboration with College of Dentists of Albacete.

This bus will serve as the roving dental office. Since last Monday, the team of dentists that is Dentibús makes revisions to all free people who come to the square of Altozano. The dental bus will remain parked until next Wednesday and will move through the municipalities of the province to reach as many people as possible will Hellín Thursday and Friday at La Roda. The bus is equipped with the materials needed for screening and diagnosis of various oral health problems facing the population.

Dental experts offer information to the general public about preventing common oral diseases. This project is part of a national campaign for oral health disease prevention, this time the bus has traveled throughout the Levant and this stage ends with a visit to Albacete.

Dentibús coordinator in our province, María Rosa López, says that in just one day can get to meet about 75 people, exceeding a hundred in the weekend periods. The revisions are designed to perform all the general population, while according to the dental team working on this project pays particular attention to correcting the habits acquired by children as well as to educate on the need for good hygiene daily. Gonzalo Hidalgo, Albacete Dentibús dentist explains that primarily serve prosthetic problems, periodontal and common conditions such as cavities.

Laverdade.es

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Spanish dentists and dentists give the Mayor of Murcia Award - Mayor, Miguel Ángel Cámara, you will receive prize tonight Oral Health Promotion, which has been granted by the General Council of Colleges of Dentistry and Stomatology of Spain. The event, held in Madrid, will be attended by some 200 people and is chaired by the prime minister, Manuel Alfonso Villa Vigil, and will also be attended by the President of the College of Dentistry and Stomatology of Murcia, Oscar Castro.

The oral health program for children and the agreement for preferential treatment for older people with limited resources launched by the city of Murcia are two programs that have received the recognition of Spanish dentists. For over 15 years and through the School Health Program, children 6 to 12 years the town go to the municipal offices of Beautiful Plaza to make their revisions and fluoride application, and are referred to appropriate services when they require other care. More recently, in 2005, launched another program to offer a preferred oral care to the elderly, through the municipal social services. Through this initiative, pensioners who need prostheses, can use this service if their cost exceeds the benefit provided free health care system.

Teleprensa.es

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Problems are always resolved when there is a will. Shall apply in Spain are good examples in the prevention of oral health and local political leaders are aware.

In Portugal still had much to do in the area of prevention, both for oral health professionals but also by the mayors and central government.

It is urgent that we can all give our best so that we can radically change the face and dramatic and tragic current landscape of the oral health of its population.

Gerofil

413) President of the Dental Association wants to negotiate with SNS table contributions to road users in private

2011-01-10T01:09:00.003Z

The re-elected today president of the College of Dental Association (OMD), Orlando Monteiro da Silva, has promised to negotiate with government reimbursement for a table that users of the National Health Service (SNS) may resort to private dental clinics.

In comments to Lusa news agency, Orlando Monteiro da Silva found that the National Health Service (SNS) has not been able to meet the needs of oral health among the Portuguese and he defended the need to create a system of reimbursement of medical acts by the state along the private.

We are interested in negotiating a schedule of repayments of some acts of dentistry on the SNS in private clinics, he said.

EPA
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Oral Health gives congratulations to the reelection of Orlando Monteiro and wishes him a highly skilful work during his mandate at the helm of the Order of Dentists.

The coming years will be of immense work in the area of oral health in our country; oral health can not continue to be marginalized by the SNS and is only available to the privileged and ruling classes, accomplices of the state apparatus and party installed in power in Portugal.

Is an urgent need to extend access to oral health care to all portuguese, without any discrimination on grounds of social class or income, because, after all, we are all Portuguese, who pay the taxes for the training of dentists.

Gerofil

412) Saturday dentists choose new president

2011-01-05T19:16:00.002Z

About 6500 dentists choose a new president Saturday after a campaign marked by the difference in positions in relation to dentist-check, but with common features such as integration of these professionals in public services.

Orlando Monteiro da Silva, now president of the College of Dental Association (OMD) and a candidate for a fourth term, it is proposed to continue the important issues that are under negotiation with the Government. In comments to Lusa news agency, Orlando Monteiro da Silva stated that it is negotiating the extension of the dentist-check program, the negotiation of the reimbursement mechanism for consultations and the inclusion of dentistry in occupational medicine and dentists in hospitals and health centers.

The rival candidate, Fernando Guerra, told Lusa that the B List advocates measures that make a difference: We are key points to check the re-integration of dentistry and dentists, the amount of any national program of oral health. We also present a set of proposals that tend to balance dentistry and this involves the integration of dental practitioners in school health teams, the creation of a national emergency in the delivery of oral health and a health bulletin to newborns and all children in kindergartens, kindergarten and elementary education, explained Fernando Guerra.

Orlando Monteiro da Silva has already said he has two major concerns for this mandate: the integration of young people and dentists in order to enter the dental societies. The candidate noted that the last three years have passed from 5300 to about 7200 dentists, whereas it is necessary to sensitize public opinion and colleges to tailor the number of graduates every year out of college to real needs. Many young doctors are forced to emigrate because they have no place in Portugal, he stressed.

This is also a concern of Fernando Guerra, whereas there is a high number of entries in the courses of dentistry. There is a surplus of professionals and it is essential that OMD has replied to this by creating measures such as the creation of new specialties, defended Lusa. Fernando Guerra to be held a joint work with institutions of higher learning to be possible to reduce the number of entries and increase the places graduate of giving access to expertise that can and must create order.

Another proposal involves the List A registration in the register, without charge, the dental societies. We think this is an additional formula to have an increased control over what goes on in these societies, many of which require mainly young dentists the less dignified conditions in terms of professional practice, justified.

For the candidate list B is a set of measures necessary for the maintenance and viability of clinics and medical offices. We present concrete proposals to ease the problems of dentists and this has been the motto of our campaign, marking where the difference in the positions that the Dental Association has taken and with which we do not identify stressed Fernando Guerra.

Sol

411) Non-Governmental Organization - World Smiling

2011-01-05T19:09:00.003Z

Mundo a Sorrir
(http://www.mundoasorrir.org/)
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The NGO - Mundo a Sorrir (the World Smiling) comes in July 2005 to work in the health field, particularly in the area of Oral Health, with the main objective of causing the welfare of poor communities, excluded and marginalized. Taking the information and basic care for Oral Health to become a universal right and accessible to all individuals regardless of their economic position, cultural and social.

The World's Smiling, aims to be an organization that provides effective support and practical action and that their help is really felt close to the communities who most feel the wants and needs. Through specific projects and supported the NGO - the World Smiling, intends to set an example that can help improve the outlook for Oral Health in Portugal and the World.

Disclose, collate and exemplify what can be done differently to do better.

410) Check-dentist dominates campaign to Order

2011-01-02T16:30:00.004Z

The dental checks threaten to dominate the struggle for leadership of the Order of Dentists. The current president calls the measure tooth and nail, but the opposition accused it of undermining the professional dignity.

Elections are scheduled for next December 12, but the debate has already begun to heat up a few weeks ago. Apart from proposals for each of the lists - which match up some points - he settled the controversy surrounding the National Program of Oral Health and especially the dental checks.

Instituted by the Ministry of Health for eight months, dental checks offer basic dental care for children, elderly and pregnant women in private clinics that adhere to the initiative and receive, for each query, the fixed value of 40 euros. Driven by the current president and candidate for reelection Orlando Monteiro da Silva, the program violates the dignity of the profession guarantees the opponent Fernando Guerra.

The candidate list B denounces a way, a model and an inconceivable period of operation, which does not contribute to the defense of the oral health of the population covered. With the amounts involved, there are treatments that are needed from outside, ensures Fernando Guerra, who argues that the check-dentist should not have a predefined value. There should be a different table for each treatment, he says, advocating for change of name of the measure for reimbursement of medical and dental instrument.
Fernando Guerra also accuses the current management of the OMD to go along with political power, to have been a major driver for the dissemination of dental checks. A measure that guarantees against the dignity of professionals, playing with surplus manpower in the market and reveals late payments at around five months. For the candidate, the Dental Association (OMD) has to be upstream of these programs, draw them and not limited to collude with them.

Orlando Monteiro da Silva, the list ahead of the elections, rejects the accusations of the opposition. The proposed overhaul of the program presented by the list B would equal the end of dental checks, ensures the current president. Why go back to the logic of a public health program: we must distinguish between the liberal practice of the profession and adherence to a voluntary program with agreed rules and they have to meet.

List A denies five months late in payments to dentists who have joined. There are delays, up to three months in some cases, but many of them stem from errors in billing for the professionals themselves. As for the treatments, Orlando Monteiro da Silva recalled that it was a social program, which involves the provision of basic treatments, as elected by a scientific priorities. It is not collude with power, guarantees, since it also criticizes what's wrong. And the facts belie the claims: there are over 3200 medical associates, nearly 350 000 people and covered 43 million euros allocated to the program.

Jornal de Notícias

409) Oral health affects reasoning ability

2010-12-29T22:22:00.002Z

A study conducted at Columbia University states that good oral hygiene can help adults maintain healthy reasoning. According to an article published in the latest edition of the Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry, people over 60 years with gum disease have more difficulty remembering a sequence of three words after a while. Furthermore, they are twice as likely not to move in tests with calculations subtracting three-digit numbers.

Researchers have resorted to more than 2300 men and women to examine their oral health to see your reasoning. Overall, 5.7 percent of adults had trouble completing some tests of memory and 6.5 percent did not complete the tests of subtraction.

Participants with higher levels of bacteria had the worst results in these tests. Among other risk factors for loss of mental function, researchers highlighted the inflammation caused in whole body because of poor oral health. Other investigations have linked this issue with other diseases such as diabetes and Alzheimer's.

CiênciaHoje

408) Orlando Monteiro da Silva X Fernado Guerra

2010-12-29T21:54:00.002Z

These interviews were taken from the Oral Health website, this blog has the same name but the site is completely independent of the same name and only coincide by chance.

For the elections to the Dean of the Dental Association, the Oral Health Blog is completely independent and equidistant to the two candidates, so that in case of detection of any breach of this policy of independence, thanks to instant communication via email to tempogero@gmail.com

Finally, gratitude is the publication of Oral Health interviews to the site to which you want sincere congratulations and your continued service for oral health in Portugal.

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Defender of the Order of Dentists' independent and free of other interests than those directly related to the exercise of the profession, the candidate for leader of over seven thousand dentists registered with the association believes the future of oral health in Portugal is by creating public-private partnerships that enhance the structures already built at the same time as providing care to the population within the National Health Service

Oral Health - How did the challenge to reapply the president of the OMD?

Orlando Monteiro da Silva -Came after reflection and after receiving support from a huge range of people who gave me a kind of blank check and that, though I know it is not always easy, given the guy on the site of application. The group of supporters already gathers more than 750 people who felt a call to one who stars in the project application. I felt that call with a great deal of freedom and responsibility at the same time, because there was also a very strong movement on the part of young dentists. These were what convinced me to proceed with the same decision, not wanting to put in here because the support nor the reputation of anyone.

Oral Health - However, there is also a growing problem of excess dentists in Portugal. What measures proposed to resolve this issue?

Orlando Monteiro da Silva - I am not a president or cabinet operetta and regular contact with professionals in the field. I realized how well the expectations that were deposited in me by these young newcomers to the profession and understand that there is clearly a surplus of dentists in our country, with many to go abroad to work. I'm not mincing words about it: it's a shame that this potential is being lost and skilled people. Furthermore, it is a shame for the country so that you lose the investment made in training these professionals.

I think actually the youngest are struggling to assert itself in Portugal and that there must be a great representative and are listened to their problems, as has happened on the site, with questionnaires, selecting focus groups and trying to make their bids to obtain appropriate response by the OMD.

What I want to emphasize is that this application is a new project that promotes new ideas for the next three years, and obviously we will pay attention to the problems of this fringe of the profession that has supported us so much. I also think we should adapt the training of dentists to country needs and propose concrete measures in this regard, because colleges live in student numbers since it depends for its funding.

Oral Health - Do not see then welcome the opening of a College of Dental Medicine announced for Lisbon?

Orlando Monteiro da Silva - I know there are instincts in this direction that the Order has not stemmed the privileged dialogue it has with the Government - not only with this, but with any government - the result of the prestige it has acquired over the years. I believe that in many cases is more important is what stops people do than what you do. We are committed to the attitude toward the opening of new faculties and remains until it reduces the number of students in dentistry, because we believe would improve the quality of education.

In addition, heralded a greater stake in postgraduate teaching and there is an unpaid volunteer internship, in terms of courses of Bologna, colleges, hospitals, health centers and private clinics, which gives young dentists ease of entry labor market and an experience that increased contact with the profession.

Saúde Oral

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With the motto An Order for All, the list B is assumed confident of victory. Of the ten lines of force by which it will govern, there is a proposal to create a permanent service dental care, provided by clinics and private hospitals with emergency rooms 24 hours a day and create a bulletin distributed Oral Health at birth. Fernando Guerra also accuses the current management of OMD have assumed an attitude of subservience to the various powers in place and promises to reshape dental checks whose current model considers a counter-intuitive, since no benefit in the long term.

Oral Health - What prompted your application the president of the OMD?

Fernando Guerra - It was believing it was time to renew and revitalize Order. We think the life experience that we have prepared us for this challenge and managed to mobilize a number of colleagues who are a team with the necessary experience and expertise at all levels, to serve the OMD in the way that we understand more convenient. This revitalization is vital and necessary that these institutions have the ability to renew itself and to open doors to new ideas and energies.

Oral Health - Why the motto An Order for All?

Fernando Guerra - Translate much of what are our beliefs. We believe that the OMD must reorient itself to the professional issues, giving particular emphasis to the difficulties that dentists feel and our action, while the Order, will refocus attention on the institution's dentist. We are therefore convinced that there would be no better motto to reflect this desire.

The team consists of dentists who work daily in their practices and, therefore, we are aware of reality and the problems that persist. We want to change that and make our contribution to changing the way that has been followed.

Oral Health - I assume by your statements that there are changes that the OMD should be made to its operation. What changes they intend to introduce?

Fernando Guerra - As mentioned above, institutions should periodically re-energize. For this, we propose a different framework in order to address the problems through a refocusing on professional issues, also a large opening in the dentist's role in society and have the capacity to form the OMD as a true catalyst for a national integrated health and has an active participation of dentists.

By this we mean clearly the integration of dentists at all levels in this strategy of oral health. We have drawn up an action program that has many ideas. A set of measures that we present such a plan within that statement that we want to go through the integration of dentists in the team of School Health, immediately creating a different approach that has been advocated, which will include an integration in the health centers. We want to be dentists to establish the community level strategies, as well as best practices and also they can be the engines of an overhaul, which should be immediate and highly relevant, the dentist-check.

Oral Health - Therefore advocate the integration of the SNS dentist?

Fernando Guerra - Yes, we want is an integration at various levels. The integration of the SNS dentist is needed for an effective improvement of oral health in Portugal. We watched, year after year, the implementation of oral health programs that have no real consequence in this instance and that have been offending in a way to consider only the dentists as manpower caregiver, the cheapest possible and undermining their professional dignity. We are completely against this style of approach.

Rather, we intend that dentists are engines at the community level in implementing strategies for oral health and OMD should be a catalyst of this idea nationally.

Saúde Oral

407) Dental seasonal?

2010-12-20T19:29:00.002Z

The current status of oral health in Portugal experienced a period of many difficulties and action taken by officials from the Ministry of Health, in joint initiatives with the Order of Dentists, remain inconclusive as to the measures to provide adequate care to the citizens.

Over the past seven years, doubled the number of people who abdicated to treat their teeth by economic difficulties. Do not just launch television campaigns or speak of million of budgeted funds (many do not run), finishing everything by not translate into real gains in health.

Patients and dentists can not be condemned to the dental check. It is an open urgnte immediate overhaul of the National Oral Health. The dentist-check measure has proved increasingly ineffective as the period and manner of operation are incompatible with good oral health of young people, pregnant women and elderly people who want to cover.

For young people in many parts of the country, checks were issued only in August and the end of its validity was given this October 31. Oral diseases are not seasonal.

On the other hand, the difference between the number of checks issued and used reflects the failure of the model. The same inefficiency has been demonstrated in late payments to professionals, with more than five months of waiting, which entails enormous difficulties for the viability of clinics and offices that joined the program. The Directorate General of Health, in agreement with the current direction of the Order stipulated guidelines of the National Oral Health which undermine the dignity of dentists and tend to frustrate the best practices in treating many cases of dental disease in groups target.

It is intended that the necessary dental treatment to an oral cavity are carried out within a predetermined fixed budget, not looking at various details and the number of medical and dental acts to perform, calling into question the professional ethics and the right to health. This affront to ethics and attitude offends either the patients or professionals.

The proposals for reform that are defended by the following aspects: the integration of dentists in the SNS (National Health Service), allowing coordinate the referral of patients and monitor the evolution of oral health care, the eradication of treatments at no cost, to prepare a paytable dignified and differentiated for the different medical and dental instruments, the penalty for late payments, simplification of administrative procedures, the permanent availability of the computer system for registration of patients, the change of name (check-dentist) for reimbursement of medical / dental instrument, the proper scientific monitoring program, and the universal freedom of access and the same termination.

Fernando Guerra, Professor, University of Coimbra and candidate for president of the College of Dentists

Sol

406) Documentary Trailer

2010-12-12T17:11:00.005Z

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405) MANGUALDE: Draft municipal oral health

2010-12-02T20:04:00.002Z

The Board of Mangualde was the only city council in the district of Viseu and the first country that accepted the proposal of the Portuguese Association of Oral Health: a project on oral health over two years. The first phase of teeth cleaning, which focused on elementary and middle schools of the county, ended this week and is already considered the most successful experiments in this field. But the results are staggering: nearly 80% of children have teeth with cavities. The association is satisfied, but regrets the lack of interest from other municipalities.

Por Mangualde

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Someone you please tell if this program is still in business? What is the balance made by the Portuguese Association of Oral Health and the Municipality of Mangualde's work? We await an explanation.

Gerofil

404) Candidates for president of the College of Dentists

2010-12-02T19:35:00.003Z

Presidential candidate Fernando Guerra defends reformulation of the dentist-check - The candidate for president of the College of Dental Association (OMD) Fernando Guerra defended today the immediate re-check the dentist, considering that the measure is ineffective in improving the oral health of citizens.

As dentist-check entered in the National Oral Health has proved increasingly ineffective, with a period and way of functioning inconceivable to the oral health of young people, pregnant women and elderly people who want to cover claims Fernando Guerra in a statement released today . According to the candidate list B for young people in many parts of the country checks were issued only in August and the closure of the treatment takes place this October 31.

Oral diseases are not seasonal, says the professor of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Coimbra. According to the candidate for president of the College of Dentists, the same inefficiency has been demonstrated in late payments to professionals, with more than five months of waiting, which entails enormous difficulties for the viability of clinics and offices that joined the program.

In defending the immediate re-check the dentist and the National Oral Health, Fernando Guerra also advocates a decisive stance in defense of the OMD patients and physicians, dentists and end with the attitude pactuante purely political interests. Patients and dentists can not be condemned to hold the check-dentist claims.

According to Fernando Guerra, the Directorate General of Health, agreed with the president of OMD still intends for the dental care needed in the oral cavity are carried out in a predetermined fixed amount, not looking at various details and the number of acts medical and dental running, calling into question the professional ethics and the right to health of citizens. On the other hand, this government election promise in extending the check-young dentist from 4 to 17 years and diabetes continues to not encourage adequate patient care and not to address the just reward of treatments that allow the recovery of dental specimens at risk , harming citizens.

Proposals for reform, the list B claims, among other measures, eradication treatments at no cost, to draw up a schedule of payments dignified and differentiated for the different medical and dental instruments, the penalty for late payment, the simplification of administrative procedures and adequate scientific monitoring program. Elections for the OMD are scheduled for December 12, competing also the current president, Orlando Monteiro da Silva.

On 12 September, the president of the Dental Association revealed that more than 90,000 dental checks were given to pregnant women and elderly people between May 2008 and August 31 this year.

Correio do Minho

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Candidate for president of OMD advocates extending dental checks to diabetic and HIV positive - The candidate for president of the College of Dental Association (OMD) Orlando Monteiro Silva Tuesday defended the extension of dental checks to diabetic and HIV positive, and adequacy of the number of graduates looking for the reality of the Portuguese market.

Unlike Fernando Guerra, another presidential candidate who advocated the immediate overhaul of the program of dental checks for considering the measure ineffective in improving the oral health of citizens, the candidate list A of the OMD to consider the measure included in the Program National Oral Health should be expanded. Pretending not to create shocks either change course or call into question what has been achieved, what is being negotiated with the Government, and that might be achieved is the extension of dental check-children from four to 18 years and other special population groups such as diabetics (about one million in Portugal) and those with HIV positive, sustained the Lusa news agency.

For the president, who reapply for the position, the proposal for immediate reform, proposed by List B, would result in the end the program with a huge disservice to the people and for the thousands of professionals who have acceded to it. Listing A presents major challenges for the class, including reducing the number of graduate training in dentistry that existing colleges are producing, advanced.

In recent years we have gone from about 5300 to 7100 dentists. This is inadequate to the demand that exists in Portugal, creates situations of underemployment and unemployment in the class, he advocated. This situation is leading professionals to seek employment elsewhere, there are even cases of dentists enrolled in job centers. We have 400 registered dentists to practice in England and several others to engage in other European countries, namely Luxembourg, Sweden, Denmark, etc., he stressed, considering this situation entirely inappropriate.

Orlando Silva Monteiro also defended the extension of the access to medicine, dentistry through a system of reimbursement of dental consultations in private to the users of the National Health Service (SNS in portuguese), which already exists in Madeira and the Azores. Most of its population has no access to dental care by the SNS, excluding dental checks, he stressed.

The inclusion of dentists in SNS hospitals, health centers and family health units in a career suited to their own profession is another proposal from List A, and the inclusion of dentistry in occupational medicine. It is unacceptable that dentistry is excluded from this area because about seven to ten percent of absenteeism from work is linked to oral health, he argued.

Correio do Minho

403) Judgments of the Supreme Court

2010-11-25T00:39:00.002Z

The Portal vLex allows consulting the various judgments of the Supreme Court Portuguese. Thus, if the player expresses strict necessity, can perform the activation of an account in vLex without any commitment for 3 days and consult various documents, including judgments within the dental profession.

402) Half of the Portuguese can not afford dentist

2010-11-19T19:30:00.002Z

We estimate that about 50 percent of its population is unable to pay even a dental consultation in private. While there are no dentists in health centers or systems of licensing, people will be excluded from oral health, told a news agency Lusa the president of the College of Dentists, Orlando Monteiro da Silva.

The Dental Association has fought so that there are dentists in health centers and hospitals or portuguese in order to create systems with the private agreement. Orlando Monteiro da Silva cited a study by University of Liverpool, where Portugal is with 'the blackest scenario in Europe in oral health care. And it is largely the absence of tender by the National Health Service (Serviço Nacional de Saúde in Portuguese language) at the level of dentistry is also creating a surplus of these professionals in the country and the Order regrets the lack of manpower planning.

If the Portuguese population to have passed all access to oral health care, the dentists likely did not arrive, estimated Orlando Monteiro da Silva. But as this is not true, the Portuguese dentists are seeking other countries: We are exporting human resources for deficit countries such as England and the Netherlands, the Nordic countries because the profession is no longer attractive. Portugal and Poland are the countries that most contribute to oral health services NHS English, for example.

Estimates of the Order indicate that within three years, in 2010, a dentist for every 1,180 people in Portugal. By comparison, Spain has a professional for every 2,667 persons, one each for the Netherlands and the UK 2,118 people a per 2105 people. Projections of the number of dentists for the next years show a lack of control over-training of graduates. The result will inevitably increase unemployment and underemployment in the class, referred to the Dental Association.

In Portugal, only the autonomous regions have oral health systems to serve users of the SNS. In the Azores there are 19 dentists in the public health regional and Order provides that, in some years, the Azores are the best indicators of oral health. In the Autonomous Region of Madeira, there is an agreement between the regional health service and private, in the public system to partially reimburse the cost of users who use private dentists.

Destak

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How long will we continue to portuguese pay tens of thousands of dollars in taxes to pay for the training of every dentist and then later those same dentists can not perform dental care to people who really need?

Awaiting response to this situation at least absurd and ridiculous for a member country of the European Union, the Ministry of Health has the kindness to give proper reply to the email on this blog.

Gerofil

401) Presented logo application to Iberian World

2010-11-19T19:22:00.002Z

The logo of the organization of the Iberian Jobs World 2018/2022 was presented this Thursday at a press conference at the headquarters of the Portuguese Football Federation. The ceremony was attended by Gilberto Madail, president of the Portuguese Football Federation (FPF), Angel Maria Villar, president of the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) and Eugénio Chorão, Managing Director of Euro RSCG Design & Architecture, a company that devised the image.

We tried to create a modern, contemporary and appealing to do a merger between the two countries - through their flags - through their passion for football unites them, said Eugene Whiner.

Madaíl already pointed out that this logo conveys desire to win two countries, two countries are intertwined, not only in football but also for its history, stressing that this was the symbol that more power could give this application.

Correio da Manhã

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An example of the grotesque and perverse model of sustainable development that we want for the country. Since the overwhelming majority of the vital needs of access to health care, the ruling class does not look at ways to squander our resources on parties and events beyond the reach of the quiet citizen pays taxes and who will never get into a football stadium.

Seeing these megalomaniac projects we are facing an outrage and a disgrace to the suffering of those who need and can not have access to health care.

Gerofil

400) Inauguration of new government

2010-11-17T00:24:00.002Z

Takes office today the second constitutional government of José Sócrates. The Minister Ana Jorge returns again to be sworn in office as Minister of Health.

The Oral Health welcomes the appointment of Ana Jorge to the position of Minister for Health and hopes that the new ministerial team to recognize the oral health of its population as a drama of urgent public health dealt with urgently.

Together with several industry associations and taking into account the pressing needs of the population in terms of oral health, we expect a greater openness to the dialogue in the search for consensus among all stakeholders, based on a new philosophy that is firstly to ensure access for all the Portuguese population to oral health care, banning discrimination definitely existing, giving a guarantee of perfect equality in access to oral health care.

Much remains to be done, starting necessarily for evaluating and reformulating existing oral health programs, which were unduly targeted excessively in terms of target audience, usually very limited in the treatments carried out and are essentially directed to the private sector. Recovery teams of school health is an aspect of great relevance, because it is within the schools that we should start a real battle for primary health care in terms of oral health.

In a developed country, is vital to ensure equity between public and private sectors, the state must invest in the area of oral health in such a way as to ensure an equal competition with the private sector of oral medicine, competing only for the citizens a choice between supply of Service National Health (S.N.S. in portuguese) and private. Is urgent to provide all health centers in the country with the prevalence of oral health, as they may initially entail higher financial costs but will have immediate positive impact on the health of its population, and a subsequent huge financial return for the state of the medium term.

Priority measure is the creation of Oral Health Newsletter for the entire population, including making it compulsory element immediately to children and young people in primary education and secondary education, as incredible as it seems no one understands that the most backward countries that our are already far more advanced in the area of child and adolescent oral health.

Gerofil

399) Post devotes the younger about the importance of oral health

2010-11-14T19:49:00.003Z

Good oral health of our teeth and is a major essential conditions to have good health throughout our lives. Unfortunately, many opportunistic diseases are emerging without us realizing it and then later will bring very serious health problems.

Having all your teeth healthy and clean is always a mouth so that not arise after other diseases. Therefore, it is often very important to note the status of all your teeth, if you notice any stains or any other problem with a tooth, immediately inform your parents and your family doctor.

Whatever problem you have with any tooth must be treated immediately, because the teeth are part of our body and also need to be careful because they will live with us throughout our life.

Have you ever felt any pain? Well, if one day you lose a tooth, you can start having a pain that will be permanent and will last for the rest of your life. There will be a physical pain as normal, but a psychological pain, very difficult to cure or even without any treatment; lose a tooth for the rest of life can have disastrous consequences for us and that will never be repaired.

Who has lost a tooth is constantly asking yourself what the reason was because of losing a tooth; in addition, the lack of a tooth in our mouth can soon bring other very serious health problems, many of them not visible such as spending.

In Portugal also, to give the necessary importance to oral health care. The Ministry of Health have almost no interest in the subject because it invents the false excuse that it is very expensive to put dentists in health centers to treat people. The Ministry of Education is sloppy and does screenings in schools to all children and young people to identify those in need of treatment of teeth. The dentists need someone to pay the costs that have to do with the treatments they need to do to all people. And not just view your friends with the right to all who need treatment and you being barred from the same treatments you have.

So, as in many other things of our everyday life, we must ourselves to fighting for what we need. You gotta be yourself to be brave and demand from all (parents, school, family doctor) that address any problem you find in your teeth, you alone you got the problem and only you is that you suffer with the problem. So do not be complicit with never any problem with your teeth and looking for help that you can handle - will not be easy but never give up and do not stop fighting for what is your right: access to oral health care. When you're an adult you will be rewarded by better health and you'll be much happier.

And never miss the daily wash your teeth and use dental floss daily too, will be rewarded by better health and live many more years.

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EXTRACT FROM THE UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF

CHILDREN'S RIGHTS

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Article No. 3 - 2. States Parties undertake to ensure the child such protection and care necessary for their well-being.

Article No. 24 - 1. States Parties shall recognize for every child to enjoy the best possible health status and receive medical services and rehabilitation, 2. b) ensure that medical care and necessary health care to all children, emphasizing the development of primary health care; States Parties shall strive to ensure that no child is deprived of the right of access to such health services.

(Signed by Portugal on 26 January 1990 and approved for ratification by the Parliament Resolution No. 20/90 of 12 September.)

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Pass along this message to the young; since it's so unfortunate disdain expressed by official institutions, including the ministries of Education and Health to assume its responsibilities for overall oral health of children and youth in the country, we will inform them of this situation to which they gain awareness of the enormous atrocities currently in Portugal on equal access to health care, including access to care and treatment of oral health in childhood and adolescence.

Gerofil

398) Oral Health in Portugal and the world

2010-11-09T12:04:00.003Z

In Portugal there are economic resources, human and material to provide a comprehensive response to the needs of oral health care of the entire population, lack only the political will to make the Ministry of Health to assume its responsibilities and incorporate oral health in all centers health and public hospitals in the country, in perfect equality with the private sector, giving the same opportunities for access to oral health care to all persons without discrimination of age, social or economic opportunities.

Over the past few years, the Oral Health has done an analysis of oral health policy followed in Portugal. Most readers of Oral Health are from Portugal and Brazil, but we also have many readers of Spanish-speaking countries and French.

To exchange experiences, ask the readers of Oral Health resident outside Portugal to write and tell how it handles oral health care in your countries. The Oral Health has every interest in disclosing the reality of oral health policies in the various countries of the world and compare with what is done in Portugal.

Join in and write, using the email tempogero@gmail.com ; can monitor the activity of oral health in social networks, reading and subscribing to Friendfeed, Twitter and Facebook or activate the Feedburner RSS on your computer to keep track of updates to Oral Health.

Participation by all is essential so that we can alert and aware public opinion and political leaders for the Portuguese need to envisage the oral health care as fundamental to the overall health of the entire population.

Gerofil