345. The oral health proposed by the parties represented in parliament

Note: I await responses from the PS, PSD, PCP, BE and PEV

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The European strategy and the goals set by the World Health Organization (WHO) oral health suggest that by 2020 at least 80% of children under 6 years of age are free of caries, and at 12 years, the DMFT does not exceed the value of 1.5.

Portugal has a National Oral Health Promotion, established in 2005, while reading the program, citizens are also aware that the public sector is responsible for the promotion of health, prevention of oral diseases and provide dental care eligible to be held in the National Health Service (SNS in portuguese). The truth is that health care medical-dental are neither more or less satisfied by the SNS.

There are currently six thousand dentists in Portugal, entered the Order of Dentists, number more than sufficient to meet national needs. In this regard, Chairman of the Dental Association said a few months ago, that the Order may be required to limit access to the profession. One reason for the excess of dentists due to the number of faculty and students enrolled, which is very large thus hampering the full flow of these professionals in the Portuguese labor market. It is noted that every year, leaving the job market for six hundred new graduates and about two hundred forty-seven Portuguese dentists are working outside of Portugal.

However, despite the apparently high number of dentists in our country, the oral health care in the SNS is practically nonexistent! From what we know, there are only forty-three units of dentistry across the country, these units only treat inpatients and serious.

Initiatives of the CDS:

1. To try to confirm the number of dental units in June 2008, the CDS-PP sent a written question to the Minister of Health, questioning how dental services / dental exist in Hospitals SNS: how many and what are the Centres Health and Family Health Units that have oral health care, and how many dentists and dentists performing functions in the SNS, broken down by Hospitals, Health Centres and Family Health Units. The CDS-PP has already remanded this question two more times - the last on 9 April - and, until today, the Minister never answered, as is their regimental duty.

We can thus conclude that despite international recommendations and despite the existence of a National Programme, the measures of this Government to ensure the oral health care to citizens became only the distribution of vouchers dentist, presented the State Budget 2008 and for children, pregnant women and elderly.

2. The CDS-PP has presented several times, a legislative initiative calling for the inclusion of dentists in the careers of Technicians of Health, which was rejected by the Socialist majority.

3. Professionals also argue that all liberals - medical and oral health technologies included, naturally - practicing voluntary action, giving their time free to treat the health of the disadvantaged, may deduct, in paying their taxes to the state, the hours devote to volunteering.

The CDS-PP considers that many steps must be taken regarding oral health. Measures that translate into the following questions: where is the intervention for the prevention of dental caries, which should be undertaken in schools? Has been or is being done? In which schools? How many children and adolescents cover? How many people can use the SNS for oral health care, with guarantees of attendance? In what parts of the country? Number of training sessions were made with families Portuguese? How many campaigns and sensitization were carried out at national level? The Ministry of Health makes the evaluation of services provided by contracted dentists? How is this assessment? Portugal will be able to achieve the goals set in 2020 by WHO?

Unfortunately, these questions remain unanswered. Worse, these and many more matters relating to oral health continue without action by this Government. Remain forgotten.

Portugal, a European Union country in the XXI century proud to distribute computers in schools, prides itself on in times of crisis, when investing in megalomaniac projects like a new airport or the high speed train, but can not proud to provide its citizens with some of the most basic healthcare and basic as are oral health care.

It is in cases like this we believe that Portugal must look humbly to a Lusophone country, Brazil, whose oral health is the most advanced in the world. This country made a political decision for decades to bet heavily on dental health, as a factor in public health law. Began awareness campaigns throughout the country (the size incomparably larger than Portugal) to instill in people an idea: a smile with healthy teeth is critical. In schools, children and young people are followed from early to a constant preoccupation with hygiene and oral health, in hospitals, all are monitored to no longer care for their teeth.

Therefore, Portugal will take on oral health as a priority, including:

- Creating effective campaigns among the population (mainly young);

- Dignity of the profession;

- Creating greater career or contracting with the state dentists.

344. Nutrition education: Advice for parents

Nutrition education

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Prevent tooth decay by reducing the cariogenic food involves not only reduce the amount of intake of sugars, but also and mainly to its frequency. Also under this view, institutions have an important role, since they may promote balanced diets, with low consumption of sugary foods (eg, one dessert a week, a bread and butter instead of sweet).

There are very useful materials in Portuguese, in this area, including the Manual para uma Alimentação Saudável em Jardins de Infância (Guide for Healthy Eating in Kindergartens) and Manual de Educação para a Saúde em Alimentação (Manual of Health Education in Food), which they recommend. The diet should include foods that encourage chewing. However, there are people with problems in this field which usually eat porridge. It should therefore be careful not to add sugar to these preparations. The food rewards given for any successful task should not be sweetened.

Technicians should sensitize institutions and parents to the importance of low consumption of sugary food and soft drinks, stating that:

• sugary foods, solids and aosdentes members are the most cariogenic;

• the effect of cariogenic foods is greater if they are eaten between meals;

• A good diet is the selection of natural foods, fruit, vegetables, grains and fibrous foods.

(taken from Professor Escovinha)

343. Set brush and toothpaste for children

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342. Analysis of the National Study of Prevalence of Oral Diseases in 2008 (Part 7)

Oral diseases in childhood and adolescence

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The National Study of Prevalence of Oral Diseases 2008 identifies tooth decay and disease periodontist in children and young Portuguese, which comes on top of fluorosis in certain geographic areas.

The calculation of the indices of dental caries has shown that its value grows with increasing age of children and young people, which can assume a condition attached to a neglect of oral health as children and young people grow and / or greater attention to oral health of children when they are smaller. We can not forget the changing environment that children and young people are going on as they grow older, which may also contribute to the development above. Are the gardens-schools and schools of the first cycle more apt to support and help in better and more consistent than the other levels of higher education? If yes, why?

Dental caries at 6 years old - Very troubling is the discrepancy observed between the various regions of the country: "In the temporary dentition, Madeira, with a DMFT of 3.61, had the highest prevalence of disease, the difference being statistically significant compared to the national average. In the permanent dentition, the Azores, had a DMFT of 0.24, which was triple the national average. The regions of Central (0.02), Lisbon and Tagus Valley and the Algarve (0.03) had the lowest values: these changes are statistically significant. (...) For health regions the proportion of temporary teeth decayed (at six years old) was very high, ranging from 83% in the Alentejo and the Azores and 94% in Lisbon and Tagus Valley."

These contrasts show clearly the lack of opportunity of access to oral health in much of the country, constituting a grave injustice committed on children living in disadvantaged areas, in other words, health oral evidence to the discrimination made in favor of richer regions, always hurting the poorest regions (absurd logic if we are talking about national cohesion, as are children living in poorer regions that have fewer guarantees of oral health).

Link: The National Study of Prevalence of Oral Diseases 2008

341. What is the Oral Health that political parties want to Portugal?

To the Presidents of Parliamentary Groups of the PS, PSD, PCP, CDS-PP, BE and PEV: Serve the present to ask the various political parties and parliamentary groups represented in parliament have the courtesy to make the blog ORAL HEALTH which its line of action and proposals for action at the level of provision of oral health care that preconization for the general population and vulnerable groups in Portugal, with a view to the next for new legislative elections from 2009 to 2013.

Now they are after thirty-five years after the April 25, 1974 and more than twenty after integration of Portugal in the European Union, oral health in Portugal continues to be treated in an anachronistic and pitiful by governments, with occasional interventions and front, without any remedy the root causes, which call to inform all the Portuguese by the solutions that various political organizations they work in the next legislature to radically change the current landscape of providing oral health care in our country.

Thanks to the submission of proposals (maximum two A4 pages) which will be published on the blog ORAL HEALTH, so the Portuguese can be informed and can choose those they deem best serve the people and country.

340. Milk teeth - how to keep them healthy?

Baby teeth are emerging at around six months and give rise to permanent teeth of approximately six years. Despite being a short episode in the history of our life, must be cared for, since its conservation status will influence the health of the permanent teeth.

If milk teeth are decayed to a child there is a real risk that they will contaminate from the outset, the permanent teeth, weakening its enamel, even fragile during the early days of activity.

See what the precautions for the child to always have healthy teeth:

1. Brushing teeth - The existence of bacteria in the oral cavity is a perfectly normal situation. However, when the number of bacteria becomes excessive, shattering the balance and decay can arise. The main cause of this imbalance is the lack of oral hygiene.

To prevent tooth decay, between six and twelve months, the mother should clean the child's teeth with a swab. After this age, usually the child is able to handle their own toothbrush (no toothpaste use). From the 24 months the child is able to use small amounts of toothpaste without swallowing, and little by little, you should be instilled into the habit of brushing teeth after meals.

Warning: Many of the medicines to children are sugared and should be administered prior to cleaning teeth.

2. Provide a supplement of fluoride - fluoride supplements are available in tablets or drops. Can be given to the child since the birth of their first tooth until about the time the child begins to have a power similar to adults (fourteen months). If the waters of the county are not (as often happens) enriched with fluoride, it is advisable to keep the add fluoride to adolescence.

3. An anti-caries diet - The sugars contained in foods are the main responsible for the first cavities. The bacteria that normally inhabit the oral cavity convert these sugars into acids. These acids create cavities in which they settle and continue their work of destruction.

To eliminate this risk should be eating a varied, low in foods rich in sugars. It is also very important to set specific times for meals, banning the consumption of foods (ie chocolates, candies, gum and other foods of this nature) between meals. Why? For these occasions the saliva, which contains enzymes that break the molecules of sugar, is less active. Hence, these molecules are much more available to be transformed into acids by bacteria. It is also important not to exaggerate the amount of food that stung the child (now with an efficient dentition) consumes.

Know bottle caries? This problem can reach all the teeth of babies, other canines and incisors. Due to excessive exposure to sugars and stems from the bottles with sugar water, fruit juices, flavored milk, and on teats dipped in honey. To not address this problem, do not give sugary drinks to children and do not let it use the bottle as a pacifier.

Article taken from the Junior Site

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Addendum (received by email)

Currently no longer recommend fluoride supplements except in cases of children identified with more than three years old and at high risk for dental caries. The effect of fluoride in the body and came to the conclusion that the preventive effect of fluoride in relation to dental caries is not only topical and systemic as previously thought.

As such only recommended in specific cases that I mentioned, the use of fluoride tablets (not droplets) as they are sucked and remain in high concentrations in the oral cavity during this administration.

The supply of fluoride is best done through the toothpaste and mouthwash fluoride topical in its activities.

339. The debacle of oral health in Portugal in the XXI century

Of relevance to bring here two comments that were sent to oral health. The first stems from a medical dentist who works with children and young people in a health center, drawing attention to the fact of being put out of work by the famous check dentist who treats children that hour of the day of that month of that year in that place with that guy even if it takes now officially have to wait two, three or more years to be old to be treated an abscess or a cavity (would want to laugh if it were not true and we were not in Portugal, with a Socialist Party government):

1 - I'm a doctor and dentist working at a health center to serve only children from 3 to 18 years. Am I at risk of being unemployed due to the creation of the famous dentist check that it is more than pulling the wool over the eyes of our people ... a child under 8 years, for example, will have to wait until 10 to treat an abscess? A child under 5 years already with the first molars will have to wait until July for sealants?

The second comment is of someone who also is on the ground and knows what will happen to most children and young people with whom you are dealing with: five, ten or fifteen years (2015, 2020 or in 2025) many of them have lost half ( written well, half) of the teeth because now they have no chance of gaining access to oral health care (I speak of course, oral health care towards the exact term):

2 - Working as a psychologist in a group of schools housed in a housing estate very problematic. I have students there who have the clear perception that when they reach adulthood, they will have half of the teeth, ie the prevention of these youth is gone. Require numerous treatments, but the responsible adults they can not claim pay for consultations.

I say adult, because many have no parents, let alone someone who could be considered early oral health as a priority alongside other. With two or three dental checks, as these students will do the treatments they need? Not to mention the number of youths who are now past 13 years ... There is no form of social support to these people?

Although we are in the XXI Century and Portugal join the European Union, it seems that fate and the course of these children and young people is little different from others who have now reached adulthood (see here).

But there's more ... You know, if you have the unfortunate need for a dental emergency in certain central hospitals (and I mean central hospitals), there is even a medical expert to attend? Come on, imagine a weekend in Vila Real and happens to him the misfortune of having an accident and facial needs urgently to be seen by a dentist or dental hygienist? Well, the best is that it never happens!

And know more? Mr. Prime Minister, Minister of Health, the Minister of Education, Mr Director-General of Health, the honorable Members of the Assembly of the Republic, the President of the Republic and the Order of Dentists are aware of these facts. And what they do to solve them?

We all know that these gentlemen deal with tens of billions of euros and that was enough so little to this problem was not a cancer within our country, just bad faith itself of them all (come to know why the devil do that) deny access to oral health to hundreds of thousands of children and youth of the country, with devastating consequences for the rest of their lives.

338. More than 200 000 children covered with dental checks

More than 200 000 children under seven, ten and 13 years who attend public schools will be covered by dental checks, today announced the Secretary of State for Health, Manuel Pizarro. The ordinance extending dental checks for children was published today in the Official Gazette and has as its primary objective the preservation of permanent teeth.

Speaking to Lusa, Manuel Pizarro said that will be covered by this measure 210 000 children. "All children who complete this year seven, ten and 13 years and who attend public schools," he said. There will still be 20 000 vouchers for children from pre-school, aged four and five years, which are indicated by their family doctors, told Lusa.

According to Manuel Pizarro, children with seven to ten years will receive a maximum of two checks for 13 years and three. If we take as reference what is happening to pregnant women who use the National Health Service and receive dental checks since May 2008, each check you can do an average of two treatments, he argued.

The measure is part of the National Programme for the Promotion of Oral Health, which was prepared by the Directorate General of Health and professional organizations representing dentists and dentists. I think that we all recognize that one of the limitations of the National Health Service was access to oral health, the secretary of state, adding. We want, in a balanced and technically supported, go gradually introducing oral health programs exploiting the National Health Service (SNS in portuguese).

In 2008, pregnant women and the elderly covered by this measure, which in 2009 was extended to children. This is to be continued that is sustainable in terms of technical and financial support and to allow the Portuguese to smile with a smile more beautiful, he added.

The users beneficiaries have freedom of choice of doctors and dentists dental members, listed on a national list of functional units available in groups of health centers and in the website "https://www.saudeoral.min-saude.pt/sisoral/pnpso/".

RTP

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Another drop of water to fill the precariousness and the abandonment of the valence of oral health in our country. After an extensive study on oral health (National Study of Prevalence of Oral Diseases, 2008), measures emerge piecemeal and without any sense to fight and solve the problem effectively, it seems that after all not worth the effort and money spent in that study paid for by taxpayers' money.

Instead of making an innovative design and efficiency, access to all children and adolescents, based on that study, highlighting the quality and not numbers, we return to government initiatives to assist the pure demagoguery and winning votes on the eve of elections, because what matters are numbers and more numbers, without any concern for quality, durability and sustainability of the measures taken.

It is expected that the professional bodies related to the oral health sector know if these measures to distance demagoguery, not lining up in the distribution of sweets to children, offering oral health policies and alternatives that are effective and efficient and have sole and exclusive interest children and young portuguese.

337. The Dental Association wants lower tax on value added in toothpastes with fluoride as a public health measure

The Dental Association (OMD) advocates reducing the tax on added value in toothpaste with fluoride through a reclassification of the product, proven to be effective in preventing the most common infectious disease, tooth decay. At Lusa, the president Orlando Monteiro da Silva argued that it is a public health measure.

Fluoride is a substance proven effective in preventing and why toothpaste should not be taxed like any other cosmetic or perfume, this twenty per cent, said. The Order has already asked to rate change in 2007, in a letter to then Health Minister Correia de Campos but received no response.

The OMD want the folders currently considered luxury goods, cosmetics, essential goods are reclassified as preventive and therapeutic, as has happened with diapers and condoms. After reclassification, the decrease in tax rate of added value can be entered in the state budget, predicted Orlando Monteiro da Silva.

On the other hand, soft drinks or the lollipops are taxed at five percent while products are highly cariogenic, also noted the president. Source of the Directorate General of Health (DGS) today indicated that any decision in this area is political and that the DGS has received no request for comment. It is for the DGS and support technically evaluate the relevance and importance of applications, added the same source told Lusa.

Supply Authority's National Pharmaceutical (INFARMED) reported being responsible for quality assurance of what is marketed in terms of medicines, cosmetics and personal hygiene. To be considered as a drug, manufacturers must submit the product to various European bodies concerned, the same source also explained.

The president of OMD contended, for its part, the folders you do not want to spend on drugs, which carries a complex process but the essentials and noted that the reclassification is for each Member State. At Lusa, responsible exemplified the difference of value added tax priced between Portugal (twenty percent) and Spain (seven percent) in dental materials for medical use.

RTP

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The Dental Association has an obligation to intervene in the policies followed oral health in the country, it is time to take responsibility for the bleak outlook in the provision of primary and preventive care that today (not) do in Portugal.

Not only is the decline in value added tax sore on the toothpaste, the OMD should and is obliged to go much further and require firmness and determination in solving the problem of abandonment of oral health care to provide the population made by current government of the Socialist Party, as well as for others before him.

Why is all of us to pay taxes for the training of dentists in Portugal, these physicians may not then be formed only at the service of the rich and give to oblivion that the assistance must be with the rest of the people who paid for his training with the money from their taxes.

It is regrettable misfortune that befalls the most disadvantaged, including children, young and old who are neglected any kind of access to oral health care worthy, although we are a country full member of the European Union.

336. Portugal and Spain: two distinct and completely opposite to treat the oral health of children

The Health Ministry launched a campaign for oral health in all Spanish children between 7 and 15 can freely visit the dentist during the year 2009. Bernat Soria, Minister for Health and Consumer Protection, said the aim is that oral health with respect to all and the smile of every child should never depend on its status. Therefore, it will promote the extension of these services in Spain, with the signing of agreements with the Autonomous Communities. The project includes extensive coverage of dental services, from annual reviews to special treatment, through fillings, extraction of teeth or mouth cleaning, for instance.

MangaSpam.com

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The same problem in two sister countries: Spain makes up prevention campaigns to correct the problem; in Portugal is hiding the problem to avoid at prevention.

Quite disgraceful conduct of public and private Portuguese, directly related to oral health care by restricting the access of children and young people to primary health care according to their social class, it was not for this that made the revolution on April 25, 1974. It is imperative to expose the scandal, here and abroad, because we all pay taxes equally for the training of dentists and dentists, who can not only be serving the rich social classes.

335. State Budget funds sufficient to maintain and improve health care says minister

The Health Minister, Ana Jorge, held that the State Budget for 2009 is enough to maintain and improve health care to the population. Speaking on the sidelines of the signing of a protocol with the Boards of Vila do Conde and Povoa de Varzim to build a new hospital, Ana Jorge said that we have a budget that is possible at this time and therefore have an obligation to manage it well.

According to Minister of Health, to manage well does not mean cutting means thinking about the resources and the needs that exist there. It is essential to define priorities, to involve practitioners and also the population that needs to be able to appeal to health services in a rational and responsible, said Ana Jorge.

The purpose of the proposed State Budget for 2009 the Minister stressed that it was done with reality and thinking about what you can do since it is well managed. To her, the priorities are set, highlighting the continuity of the reforms of health care and primary care facilities and hospitals, and health programs that are part of the national plan and that has to be monitored.

With regard to waiting lists for surgery and oral health, Ana Jorge said let's focus in some areas to improve aspects complicated.

The minister who holds the portfolio of Health also announced that it will release a program on reducing waiting lists for surgery on ambulatory surgery. This new model, with a set of attitudes and practices that will post Monday to shorten waiting lists because there are many surgeries that can be done with just one day after admission, under conditions of full safety for the patient, concluded Ana Jorge.

TSF

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The Minister acknowledges that there are funds which constitute the main obstacle to productivity in public health and therefore the provision of primary health care to populations. In fact, there is a lack of organization in the way of administering the various departments of public health, how often outdated and that instead of improving the healthcare of the population, have the perverse effect of acting in the opposite direction.

Technological advances can relieve many features of National Health Service wasted on bureaucracy to be implanted directly in the provision of health care.

For example, why the Ministry of Health does not transfer the money it spends on oral health for schools or health centers? Power would thus gain immensely in terms of productivity and results in oral health, while not, is the despair of those who have refused treatment and see oral health, especially the layers of the poorest people, children and elderly who they are denied any possibility of effective treatment in time.

Words for what? Is required is action and enough bureaucracy in the bodies of the Ministry of Health.

334. Training in volunteer (non-governmental organization World's Smile)

Dear Colleagues,

As you know, the non-governmental organization World Smiling to develop their projects with the support of its members on a voluntary basis. So and so we can develop that same volunteer service quality, we are investing in training our associates, as well as potential volunteers who want to join our cause on behalf of Oral Health.

It is in this context that we went to schools of dentistry and other media partners in order to request authorization for the release of our Volunteer Action Training among your associates and Bloggers, and ask how best to do so. We take this moment to inform the two major projects that we initiate, both approved by the High Commissioner of Health, and in the case of the Clinic, also by EDP Solidarity Foundation:

1) "Project Oral Health on Wheels," a bus that will circulate through the city, visiting schools in the first cycle and will be made where information sessions and training, with the main goals of its intervention: the promotion of information campaigns, prevention and Oral Health Promotion and development of a work which contributes to the improvement of living conditions of families. Since the aim was also to prepare these visits an epidemiological study of oral health status of the population covered by the project.

2) "Project Support Oral Health Clinic - CASO", a clinic in solidarity to support specific groups, particularly in young, pregnant women, elderly and risk groups and you want to be a vehicle for improving oral health in a social inclusion perspective users.

Some of your attention, thank you in advance for your valued response, sending Best Regards

Mundo a Sorrir - Associação de Médicos Dentistas Solidários Portugueses

Rua Ciríaco Cardoso 265-C 5ºDT

4150-213 Porto

+351220169882/+351931653608

http://www.mundoasorrir.org/

geral@mundoasorrir.org

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Institution of Public Utility Portugal

Non-Governmental Organisation for Development

Member of the Portuguese Platform of Non-Governmental Organizations

333. Shame of the National Health Service: Health Centre without a dentist for a month

Since September that users of the Health Center of Aveiro not have at their disposal the services of a dentist. The professional retired and its replacement is not forthcoming, the second found JN. The retirement of medical dentist last September that service the health center of Aveiro, left users with no possibility of recourse for the provision of oral health care, for acute patients.

The solution to remedy the lack of health care now, was second in charge of the Health Center of Aveiro, João Terrível distribution of "dental checks" for the elderly and pregnant and contracting with physicians, dentists and private dentists. "The acute patients will have to resort to private services," said JN, João Terrível that lessened the effects of lack of dental services in Health Center.

"She had a schedule of twelve hours per week, so not many users who had," said the Director of Public Health Center Aveiro who recalled that unit in the health service has a dental hygienist. "We are trying to solve the problem and is being equated a solution, either way will never be found in the short term but the medium term," said JN.

Jornal de Notícias

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It is absolutely shameful oral health policy followed in Portugal. This example clearly shows the attempt by the Ministry of Health in destroying the little that will still exist in the care of the population.

Between promises and actions left a bad faith and settlement, by the Government, the oral health care provided by the National Health Service, something unthinkable during the dictatorship that existed in Portugal before 1974.

There is courage and report the situation, because the taxes that each of us paid (whether rich or poor) for the training of dentists in Portugal can not then revert solely on the benefit of the social class of high yields, which can pay for private consultations. Unfortunately (why?), The Order of Dentists seems to be deaf before such a serious attack on the country's population perpetrated by this government.

332. Line Dental - Your Space on the Net to exhibit and learn about their oral health

http://linhadentaria.blogs.sapo.pt/

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English version here

331. Oral Health: What should be compulsory in school education and no one speaks

Without a firm attitude of parents or guardians, any child or teen may have jeopardized his smile definitely for the rest of his life, with serious psychological and physical problems associated with it.

Why are these issues are not directly addressed and treated, are now virtually banned from mandatory school curricula of primary and secondary?

After all, if there is an Order of Dentists, what is its function within the policies of disease prevention for oral health in childhood and adolescence? There are surely to fall asleep next to concerns that the Ministries of Education and Health have always been negligible, in general, the oral health of children and adolescents covered by primary and secondary education in our country.

After all, much, really, to be done by the young Portuguese democracy was born on April 25, 1974, and one of those things is to combat the systematic violation of human rights by the Portuguese and their governments, when we talk in children's access and young people to oral health treatment in our country, drafted in light of the economic possibilities of each family.

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Recommended reading for any parent or educator, binding in all libraries and learning resource centers at any school:

Sorri Dente (Smile Tooth)

Author: Trigo, Maurício

Publisher: Garrido Editores

ISBN 972-8471-42-4

ISBN 972-8738-15-3

330. Municipality of Silves promotes free medical screenings

A set of medical screenings and awareness campaigns were held in March in Silves. This initiative resulted from a cooperation protocol established between the municipality of Silves and the Company Tecnifar - Industrial Technique, which allowed the implementation of the "SMS - Medical Social Solidarity."These screenings took place in Fissul and four school groups in the county. In the building Fissul exams to be adult and elderly population, between 9:30 a.m. and 18:00 without interruption. In school groups are privileged children of the first cycle of basic education, happening activity between 09:30 am and 17:30. There were also traces of HIV / AIDS and collection / donation of blood, with collaboration from the mobile CAD and Faro Hospital Center in the western Algarve.

Thus, during the days when these actions take place, all interested parties can make visual traces, participate in moments of awareness on oral hygiene, making nutritional assessments, various measurements (blood pressure, glucose, cholesterol and body mass index), Densitometry Bone (to determine the presence or absence of osteoporosis), ECG and spirometry (exams that let you see how your lungs by measuring the amount of air that can support and speed of expirations).

In the case of schools have been conducted also traces the children flagged for visual effect, and an Action Awareness Oral Hygiene for all students.

Altogether, the initiative will involve the participation of 25 health professionals, including physicians and nurses, in addition to the staff of the Municipality of Silves, especially the technicians of the Social Sector - Division of Sport, Youth and Social Action, which will coordinate this initiative.

Barlavento on line

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More praise from a local government initiative; fortunately beginning to emerge that municipalities understand the needs of local populations. Although we know that many other mayors still invest thousands of euros on luxury trips abroad by (where is the government and Procudaria General's Office to investigate these trips?), today begins a new generation of people in town that put the interests community above the interests of their navels.

329. The oral health of the Ministry of Health: Among the promises and practice ....

The total debt unsuccessful (over 90 days) of the Portuguese National Health Service amounted to 908 million euros at the end of September. The bulk (727 million) is the responsibility of corporate public hospitals, which constitute about ninety percent of hospitals in Portugal in financial size and number of beds.

It was to "get over the fact that hospitals do not pay on time" and "inject liquidity into the economy" at a time of crisis that the government decided to extend and enable the fund to support payments from the National Health Service (never used despite the existence since 2006).

Hospitals SPA and central services will result in a reallocation of funds, including transfers between deactivations and programs - using, for example, money that this year (2008) on the oral health programs and medically assisted procreation.

PÚBLICO

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It is absolutely shameful that the current team from the Ministry of Health to "hide" the oral health programs, thus taking advantage of dividends to pay off debts of poor management, while denying oral health treatment to hundreds of thousands of Portuguese people, especially children and adolescents, keeping them in a permanent ignorance concerning their health needs.

Message to the Minister of Health: after all, promises politically correct to actually going to a large container; absolutely demagogue this evolution of oral health policy in Portugal.

At least to send this message to the Socialist Youth to also remember, in Parliament, who really need our children in schools.

328. Analysis of the National Study of Prevalence of Oral Diseases in 2008 (Part 6)

Children and young people with dental caries

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Reading the National Study of Prevalence of Oral Diseases in 2008 shows that tooth decay affects too alarming levels among children and youth of our country. The situation can be said that almost catastrophic, because the percentage of affected children reaches 49% at 6 years of age, reaching 72% at 15 years of age. This finding should be, first, absolutely vital concern in terms of health education at the primary level.

At a time when the advance party youth projects for introduction of other facilities and strengthening educational, it is quite urgent to tackle the problem of oral health that grace combined, so overwhelming, affecting the vast majority of the school population and physical and psychological consequences unpredictable for the future.

You can not get a clear conscience when we learn that 88.5% of adolescents aged 15 years in the Azores and 75.4% of adolescents aged 15 to submit dental caries in Alentejo, knowing of the billions of euros in funds that the country enjoys from the Europe Union.

This is why it is urgent and necessary to change the irrational policies of governments followed by oral health in Portugal since April 25, 1974, it is inconceivable that in a European Union member country, children and young people continue to be treated in a discriminatory manner in which the origin of social class determines their access to health care (something that happens today in Portugal and that is more typical of a Third World country).

Thus, it is also you, dear reader of this blog, to denounce this situation and warn the public, children and young people of today are the men who tomorrow will shape the future of our country. Do not let a summit of political leaders and incipient have the right to limit and constrain the physical and psychological development of those who are men and women of Portugal in the next generation.

Link: Estudo Nacional de Prevalência das Doenças Orais

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Final note: Is the Presidency of the Republic will be available to perform a week open nationally on the issue of provision of primary health care to the population, including their access to oral health care? Is a suggestion of who is on the ground and knows the reality.

327. Dentists: Order criticizes some behaviors in class

The Ministry of Health should assume their responsibilities and resolve the degradation reached by the activities of dentists, says the president Orlando Monteiro da Silva. There are dentists in Portugal to use lower quality material treatments and save on sterilization, because several insurance decreased the prices of dental treatments, denounced the charge.

Orlando Monteiro da Silva considers that the Ministry of Health can not close its eyes to this. Faced with these accusations in Porto, Minister Ana Jorge proved to be "concerned" but stressed that it is relevant to that of dentists that it is monitoring the quality of services. The Renascença has already contacted the Insurance Institute of Portugal to try to understand why insurers will reduce dental coverage in the area, however, the Office does not, as yet, no comment.

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We therefore hope for a clear sweep investigation into the office by the Dental Association; patients require and the country thanks.

326. Mail Italy

Lord responsible for the dental industry in Angola. My name is Sergio Sabellini, Oral Hygienist'm Italian, working as a tutor in the course of Oral Care at Hospital of Milan.

I am also studying for a master on international cooperation (IOC-ECTOH) at the University of Torino:

http://www.cooperazioneodontoiatrica.eu/

I am preparing a thesis on Health Systems Lusophone African Countries (PALOP `s) and appropriate international organizations, which operate in those countries. It was already visiting the website of the Ministry of Health of Angola, but can not find much data.

The Lord can advise me other links or other sources of Angola? Thank you very much for your attention.

Dr. Sergio Sabellini
sabsergio@libero.it

325. Matosinhos: Children do not pay the dentist

In partnership with the municipality of Matosinhos, the City Park Clinic has launched a project that allows for preventive care of 1,000 children. "This is just a program of prevention, if we detect anomalies, children will be directed to their dentists. We evaluated the risk of tooth plaque and placing the children in groups. It is an opportunity for all children, begin to create oral habits, 'says José Maria Corte-Real, Clinical Director.

This project involves a whole team of doctors, but particularly the involvement of parents and teachers "because it is with them that we must work to make this whole program is continued."

The consultations are aimed to all children of Matosinhos, either public schools or private schools. "We will not exclude any child. This is a worthwhile project for children who never had the opportunity to go to the dentist, surely will never forget this clinic", says Anthony Parada, chairman of the municipality of Matosinhos.

The President makes a thank you to the clinic for the courage to check out the deficiencies of the system and try to correct with this project.

Portugal Diário

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Example of courage and determination that other municipalities should follow, instead of walking made lackeys squandering million of our taxes on travel tour to Cuba, Canada, Brazil, Mozambique, Poland or elsewhere, or organize festivities to no avail improving the living standards of local populations.

Unfortunate that this passive bribery of local politicians is not investigated by Procudaria General's Office; that money was to be investigated and applied directly to health care of children in each county.

Well there are people of Matosinhos.

324. European Association for Osseointegration

European Association for Osseointegration
(Link: http://www.eao.org/)

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Bridging the gap between science and clinical practice, EAO improves the quality of patient care as the main resource center in the area of implant dentistry in Europe.

323. European Global Oral Health Indicators Development

European Global Oral Health
Indicators Development
Link:

http://www.egohid.eu/Index.htm

322. Quintessence Publishung

Quintessence Publishung

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link: http://www.quintpub.com/index.php

321. Orlando Monteiro da Silva elected president of the European Council of Dentists

The European Council of Dentists is a European non-profit that represents over 300,000 dentists across Europe. It is composed of national associations and dentists from 30 European countries. The main objectives of the European Council of Dentists is to promote high standards of oral health and represent the interests of the dental profession in the European Union.

The European Council of Dentists adopted on November 28, 2008, at its General Assembly in Brussels, a position paper on the draft European directive on patients' rights with regard to cross-border healthcare. The European Council of Dentists also adopted a resolution on an advisory opinion on the whitening products used in dentistry.

For more information about the European Council of Dentists see WebPage http://www.eudental.eu/

320. Statistics 2008

319. FDI World Dental Federation

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318. education for health

The president of the popular Azorean announced that his party "will propose and will beat up the next Legislature, to be created in the curriculum in primary regional chair of health education so that children and young people can since very early, learn the basics of health and some elementary concepts about nutrition and to prevent diabetes and obesity are very serious problems and serious in the Azores."

According to Artur Lima, "this course has to be taught by a competent professional and this professional can and should be, according to the CDS-PP, the Nurse Family," which will also guarantee popular propose next Legislature. "This is a professional who, apart from walking on the parishes giving support to families and the elderly, will also provide support in kindergartens and schools transmit to children the basic knowledge about nutrition and the prevention of disease," he stressed. The candidate for deputy for Terceira also stressed that "this course will have the advantage of promoting prevention."

Artur Lima explains that the discipline of health education "children will learn to eat, they will learn what is diabetes, which is obesity. They will gain knowledge from an early age, those who are health problems that may have in the future. That is, begin to learn the rules to prevent." This is because, concluded Artur Lima, prevention is key: "Prevention is infinitely cheaper than treatment."

A União

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The biggest gap in primary and secondary education in Portugal is the lack of any education strategy focused on health, all that is done is by pure bigotry and wished, disregarding completely the reality of children and youth.

Unfortunately, the lack of political will to invest in prevention and school health creeps in Portugal since 1974 and no government has shown no interest in changing the situation. In the context of oral health, then the situation has been completely swamp; a shame that the Portuguese politicians should not hide from the rest of its European partners.

317. periodic dental

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316. Oral Health: educational site for younger children (in Portuguese)

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315. In Portugal charge is imposed on the poor to health care first priority to the rich

Discrimination in access to private finance

through the National Health Service (SNS in Portuguese)

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The Inspector General Activities of Health is investigating several complaints from clients who took longer to get a medical examination in private services when they go through the National Health Service, as reported DECO. Source of the office of Health Minister in a statement to Lusa, said that inspections were admitted "some few" complaints from users to report instances of discrimination, but he did not say how many. "Few, but not know how many, and are being investigated. We hope the findings," said one source.

Also, the Regulatory Authority for Health Lusa said today he had received few complaints from clients who say medical tests in private are marked quickly forget where they offer the credential of the family doctor and pay all of your pocket. This discrimination is prohibited by law, was today the subject of another complaint the association of consumer DECO, stating that in 11 percent of private establishments was found that was reduced waiting time when they gave up the credentials of medical family.

The employees held DECO 180 markings for colonoscopy (an examination of the gut), and transrectal ultrasound obstetric and 15 of the sites could bring forward the date marking of the examination when offered to forget the credential of the medical and support costs.

Jornal de Notícias

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The title matches exactly with the text. We all pay taxes to the long training of doctors and health technicians, at the time of care, who have greater economic possessions is serviced first.

I propose that the President of the Republic, the Prime Minister, the Minister of Health, the Ombudsman himself, Mr Attorney General's Office and all Members of Parliament today put an end to this situation. Portugal can not continue to have health policies that violate human rights.

314. program of oral health throughout the life cycle

Oral Health Program throughout the life cycle

In pregnancy

• A pregnant, taking care of your oral health is to promote the health of your child.
• A planned pregnancy should address the dental care of the mother

Up to 3 years

• Oral hygiene begins with the eruption of first tooth
• Oral hygiene is performed with a gauze, finger stall or soft brush
• Parents should use a small amount of fluoridated toothpaste in 1000-1500ppm

From 3 to 6 years

• The child must do the brushing of teeth, under supervision, at least twice a day one of which must before bedtime
• The brush should be soft and have a size suitable for the child's mouth
• The fluoridated toothpaste should be between 1000-1500 ppm, and the amount is identical to the size of the nail of the 5th finger (little finger) of the child

More than 6 years

• Brushing the teeth should be done at least twice a day, one of which must before bedtime
• The brush should be soft or medium-sized appropriate to the child's mouth
• The fluoridated toothpaste should be between 1000-1500 ppm, and the amount is about one centimeter

In adolescence

• Oral hygiene is part of the construction and strengthening positive self-image. The expectations of young people about the lips, mouth and teeth, from an aesthetic and relational, are of value

Oral Health Promotion in the school environment

In the garden-care

• Integrating health education and oral hygiene in the Educational Project of the educational
• Make a brushing of teeth in the Garden-schools

In schools the first, second and third cycle

• To match the messages of health promotion practices of school
• Carry out a fortnightly rinsing with a solution of sodium fluoride 0.2%
• Make brushing teeth at school and monitor its implementation and effectiveness

Prevention of Oral Diseases

In children and young people at high risk of caries

• Fissure sealants
• Supplement of sodium fluoride (after 3 years of age)
• Fluoride varnish or chlorhexidine
• The individual risk assessment must be made by a dental hygienist, dentist, doctor or dentist

Early diagnosis and dental treatment

For children and youth in program

• The Health Center
• In dental services Hospitals
• Private clinics, through contractual

Source: SPP - Sociedade Portuguesa de Pediatria

313. oral health in schools

The oral diseases are, by their high prevalence, one of the main health problems of children and youth. However, caries and periodontal diseases, if properly prevented and treated early, are of a high vulnerability, with reduced costs and health gains relevant.

In Portugal, the number of decayed, missing and filled teeth per child (DMFT) to 12 years of age is 2.95, and the percentage of children free of dental caries in 6 years is 33%. The World Health Organization indicates that by 2020 at least 80% of children under 6 years are free of caries, and 12 years, the DMFT does not exceed the value of 1.5. Achieving these goals is only possible by strengthening the promotion of health and prevention of oral diseases, which require greater involvement of health professionals and education.

Thus, oral hygiene must be addressed in connection with the acquisition of personal hygiene behavior and learning the knowledge must relate to the experiences within and outside of school.

The curriculum guidelines for pre-school advocate an educational intervention in the health education and hygiene are part of everyday life from preschool. Similarly, during compulsory education, references to the discovery of the body, health, education, food, hygiene and overall oral hygiene are integrated into the curriculum and the school curriculum from first to ninth grade education.

In this context it is recommended that all children attending the kindergartens and schools in the first cycle of basic education to make brushing teeth in the school, thus leading to the gradual empowerment of the child for self-care oral hygiene.

The implementation of brushing should be guided by teachers, who must be trained for this activity, and regularly, at least once every three months, supervised by the school health team.

This preventive measure should the first cycle of basic education, be complemented by fortnightly rinsing with a solution of sodium fluoride 0.2%. This activity when done in a continuous and fortnightly helps reduce tooth decay by about 26%.

Nutrition education is also a central thrust of a program to promote oral health, it is necessary to raise awareness of aspects of school life that affect the oral health of children, the quality of school meals and food available at the bar or vending machines, most of them high in sugar and therefore strongly cariogenic.

The adoption by educational institutions, brushing the teeth of the students at least once a day as a central factor for a program to promote oral health, you will probably find some resistance from the kindergarten teachers and teachers who should go for solving gradually and in accordance with the real difficulties encountered, which would normally hold at the lower house and the difficulty in monitoring all students brushing.

So it is important that the activities of health promotion are integradasno school's educational project, promoted by teachers, but since that includes the planning phase, other key partners to solve and obstacles to the sustainability of the project, including the Municipality whose action is role in solving problems related to the structure of the school building. Similarly, parents should be active partners in the planning of activities to participate in solving problems and are essential for there to be at home to strengthen the practice of brushing. Experience tells us that projects that were initiated without the involvement of the community, often fail to sustainability and continuity, with the passage of time. However, in projects where community participation is strong, the likelihood of these projects fall is less and efficiency is increased as they continued the activities, supporting the behavioral change and increased maintenance.

Ângela Meneses Alves

A tua Escola

312. Finally?

It seems that finally someone is seriously concerned with the typical third world country and we still have around here, talk about oral health and how it has been systematically neglected by all the ministers who have gone through the health portfolio from 25 April 1974 by the former Health Minister Correia de Campos.

Now comes the good news by the current Minister of Health Ana Jorge, who finally has the wisdom and humility to face the problem and tackle it once, now proposing an investment of more than 25 million in checks - dentists, to be distributed to children aged four, five, seven, ten and thirteen years in 2009.

Unlike Correia de Campos (who advised parents to teach their children to brush their teeth every day), Ana Jorge knows that dental caries is an infectious disease - contagious and needs of medical procedure to be treated accordingly. We therefore hope that the Ministry of Health finally create all conditions to reverse the bleak left by his predecessors and to create conditions to make oral health a right for all citizens of this country, not just for a bourgeoisie wealthy with access to everything and anything, the result of social inequalities created and sustained by all governments in the last thirty years.

I recommend that the Minister Ana Jorge revitalize a new posture in front of his Ministry and who knows confront lobbyists installed, did not bow to interest groups more or less opportunistic and only have eyes for their own navels, that all to do that after 34 years after the April 25, 1974, finally all children and young Portuguese have the same access to treatment by oral health in our country, whether children of the working class or the bourgeoisie installed and live at the expense of power.

Further, it is expected that these 25 million euros annually channeled to oral health and youth are effectively fully expended only and only in medical procedures, which does not allow the Minister, a single deviation from this fund for other purposes, whatever they are, or to sustain employment of incompetent parasites installed in offices of secretaries of state or regional health authorities that over the past thirty years, little or nothing done for the sake of oral health and to reach a left neglect points of almost no return, without care less about that.

It's a good bet is just to continue the working group that conducted the National Study of Prevalence of Oral Diseases 2008; it is profitable synergies and focus on creating real oral health programs, completely beyond the reach of those who were the great responsible for more disarray for oral health in Portugal in which we live up to our days.

For me, unfortunately, these programs are thirty years too late and they can not remedy the neglect and close all doors that hit to get treatment in time, after being savagely treated by looking at the service of a particular Regional Health Administration, I definitely ruined my life forever, but that's another story that will be treated in another and was very short.

But I'll be around and I will continue to follow, day by day, how it develops a policy of oral health in Portugal.

311. Checks - dentists reach children and young

The check-dentist is going to be distributed to children aged four, five, seven, ten and thirteen years in 2009 an investment of more than 25 million of euros, announced today the Minister of Health. Currently, checks are distributed pregnant women followed in the health centers and the elderly who receive the Solidarity Supplement.

Speaking at the Parliamentary Committee on Budget and Finance, Ana Jorge pointed out that the number of dental caries has "declined significantly" because of the work has been done on prevention. "Now, let's bet also in the treatment of cavities. All children who attend public schools have access to oral health care and, when necessary, the dentist checks", he announced.

According to the accounts of the governor, will cover 190 thousand of children from ages seven, ten and thirteen years, adding yet another 20 thousand dental checks for children aged four and five years.

RTP

310. Analysis of the National Study of Prevalence of Oral Diseases in 2008 (Part 5)

Social and demographic characterization of the studied

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The National Study of Prevalence of Oral Diseases 2008 was made during the academic year 2005/06 and covered a sample of 2612 children and young people in public, divided into three age groups: 890 children under 6 years of age, 837 children under 12 years old and 885 young people under 15 years old, broken down by sex and by the different health regions of the country, including the autonomous regions of Azores and Madeira.

Given the level of parental education of children and young people between 12 and 15 years old, it was found that the majority had compulsory education, parents with secondary education and higher education accounted for up to 28% of the total number of parents.

The results presented by the study indicates that parents of children under 12 years of age tend to have higher levels of education compared to parents of their 15 years of age, this trend is most noticeable in the mother than the father.

One detail to note is that this finding was not further later in the analysis of final results obtained, since it could allow a relationship between oral health of children and young people and their level of education of parents, this would make possible develop oral health programs specific to certain levels of schooling of its population.

The same can be said about the profession of parents, the report only highlights the fact that most parents perform work at intermediate level, noting that a quarter of mothers of children and young people between 12 and 15 years old be home.

It is clear that the implementation of any program of oral health must take into account the type for which it is intended, the universe of the population of intermediate levels of schooling and / or job insecurity requires a separate action, in terms of programs oral health of the population with high levels of education and / or professionally stable.

Link: Estudo Nacional de Prevalência das Doenças Orais

309. program "Clean Teeth, Beautiful Teeth"

It is now a year, the municipality Mangualdense initiated the program "Clean Teeth, Beautiful Teeth" which was aiming at total eradication of this county "ppalling conditions of dental caries in the twenty-first century is still in significant numbers in the mouths the Portuguese".

According to the Portuguese Association of Oral Health (APSO), quoted by the Journal of Viseu, this program could complete control of the Oral Health of children in the first cycle of basic education in 4 years with an annual per capita cost less than the cost average fee for a consultation in a private practice of dentistry Mangualde. They were involved in this project, as well as APSO and Mayor of Viseu, the Department of Preventive Dentistry, Course of Dentistry of the Catholic University and all dentists in private practice in the district of Viseu.

In fact, this project has never got it. The children of the first cycle of basic education of Mangualde never had any treatment. "Just saw my son once and it was at school" reported one parent to the yard. Faced with this situation, we were informed that the project was never implemented.

No student, even those who were first screened by the students of Medicine and Dentistry of Viseu, never received any treatment in private practice in Viseu. Manuel Antonio, the father of a child who attends the first year of primary education at one school a group of teaching Mangualde asked to inform the procedures to be carried out under the project "tooth clean, beautiful teeth" to take their students to a dentist of that program of oral health.

"I had the honor, as the letter referred to, to be informed that it was recast. The project was begun in the past year, in March 2005 and lasted four years, last twelve months, is correct and no resolution in sight", he said.

March 31, 2006

Terreiro

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Received the Terreiro this clarification by the President of the Portuguese Association of Oral Health, Dr. Antonio Larcher, Dentist. Great honor for us and the attitude demonstrated by the high APSO. It is pleasing to record the appreciation made by this Association to Terreiro.

We are thankful for that explanation, we would have been equally true of the entities responsible for such clarifications and humbly recognize that sometimes the appointments can not be met by a variety of reasons. Mangualde and our children only win with these attitudes.

"Dear Terreiro As you know, I am President of APSO. Before commenting on the statements writing and reach the honor of the Association which I chair, I thank you as a citizen attention and demanding the fulfillment of the promises of political forces. If the Portuguese had similar behavior, we would certainly be better served.

Clarification on the program "Clean Teeth, Tooth Beautiful" In 2004/2005, as APSO informed the parents of pupils in primary schools of Viseu, would only be withdrawing the state of oral health of children (determination of DMF) to actual knowledge of the real needs and costs of implementing the next phase of the program. This was achieved through collaboration with the Department of Community Oral Health of the Catholic University.

The collaboration of the Municipality of Mangualde this stage was just logistics, ensuring transportation of the students at the Catholic University to the various schools of the Municipality and taking the kids to the County University Hospital of the Catholic University in the promotion of Oral Health which took place in the plant . It was not possible until now, by funding difficulties, which exceeded the APSO to commence consultations under the Program. I keep hoping later this school year can start them.

The kind of project of the D.G.S. (Directorate General of Health) that both praises, I must clarify the following. First, the project is not new; in Mangualde been in operation for more than five years. It is not as comprehensive as it claims! In Mangualde be seen about 120 children from 4 to 16 years. Only in the first cycle schools are enrolled about 900 students. And it has proven not to work!

After all these years PSOCA (Program Oral Health of Children and Adolescents) of D.G.S., Mangualde DMFT has a total of 3.86, reaching a value of 4.35 to 10 years. DMFT is the number of permanent teeth affected by decay in the mouth. The value you give is the average of the mouths of doom.

At 10, there are only 12 permanent teeth and are on average more than 4 with caries. These children have all benefited from the program that has so many compliments on your part. I do not know who is the Terreiro, but I think I know the Terreiro. So know that I am politically nonpartisan enough to take my status as "non-voters."

This final clarification is not therefore any attempt to excuse or blame any political or mayor. In 2002 this program was proposed to Dr. Fernando Ruas (Viseu - PSD) following the International Congress of Oral Health held in that city. As I personally know Dr. José Correia, at the time the Mayor of Nelas (PS), presented him the program, hoping that this would start up in my land of origin. The answer was the same and so I think it is supra partisan attitudes: The Municipal Councils already have a lot to do and responsibility is the health of the state!

Mangualde always went further and showed interest as soon as you arrange money, we work. As you will agree the biggest obstacle to progress is always a change in attitudes. I think the opening taken in our municipality shows that at least this difficulty will be overcome."

April 2, 2006

Terreiro

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Still like to know at least one young man who participated in this project! They say it's unique project in the national scene ... but should be, at the national level there are people who have imagination so fertile, so I think it is unique.

Consider:

We will continue the program of widespread oral health for all students of the first cycle, through the "Clean Teeth - Tooth Beautiful", in partnership with the Portuguese Association of Oral Health and the Catholic University of Portugal (the one on the national scene).

2005 local elections the PSD Program

Because I have a daughter in the first cycle of basic education, one day ask me about this project, I had the honor, as published reports of the letter, to be informed that it was being reworked. The project was initiated in March 2005 and lasting for 4 years, 12 months ago, was hit and no resolution in sight to this day because nothing happened ... that is, nothing ever happened.

Politics ... seriously? Or political play?

January 3, 2008

Terreiro

308. Faculty of Dental Medicine, University of Porto

Faculty of Dental Medicine, University of Porto

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The School of Dental Medicine, University of Porto is a public school education university that promotes science, research and service to the community in the field of dentistry and enjoys scientific, pedagogic, administrative and financial, assumes the responsibilities of management and internal organization and promotes the creation and development of protocols with public and private national and foreign.

It had its beginnings as a School of Dental Medicine, established by Decree-Law No. 368 of August 15, 1976 and came into operation in November of that year and formed, in Portugal, the first institution of higher medical and dental university level.

The School of Dental Medicine worked in temporary offices since 1976, a prefabricated annex to the Hospital of S. João, to the construction of a building which is located at Rua Dr. Manuel Pereira da Silva - Paranhos.

Incorporated at the University of Oporto on January 6, 1989, through Law No. 10 of 6 January 1989, establishing the School of Dental Medicine, University of Porto. Changing facilities for the current building took place on 15 July 1997. The Faculty of Dentistry, University of Porto is now an institution of prestige nationally and internationally.

The Faculty currently includes 37 PhDs, and 8 Professors, 10 Associate Professor, 6 Associate Professors, 10 Associate Professors, 2 Assistant Professor, 2 Associate Professors Invited to 40%, 5 assistants, 2 Teaching Assistants, Teaching Assistants 7 60%, 6 Teaching Assistants 40%, 2 Teaching Assistants to 30%, 4 Teaching Assistants 20%, 6 Monitor and 3 teachers hired.

School of Dental Medicine, University of Porto continues among other things, the following:

a) give the course and give a degree in Dentistry, as well as other that by law may be granted;

b) organizing and Masters courses, postgraduate, specialization and updating its fields of expertise, and promote academic training leading to the granting of the doctoral degree;

c) Organize and deliver training courses on continuing education in various areas of the disciplines of dentistry and allied subjects and also organize free courses long, recycling, and other deepening it deems necessary or useful;

d) To maintain, promote and develop scientific research;

e) Collaborate with other departments, institutions or entities that require their technical, scientific and educational collaboration or receive them, according to protocol established;

f) to assume leadership and technical-scientific-medical courses for technicians and oral hygienists, dental assistants, dental technicians and dental technicians;

g) To organize and keep an outpatient dental, subject to scientific and educational interests of the Faculty;

h) Establish forms of exchange, cultural, scientific, technical, educational, collaborative activities of common interest with public or private, domestic and foreign;

i) within the scope of activity for international cooperation, particularly with regard to Portuguese-speaking countries and European countries.

FMUP

307. Ninth edition of Oral Health Month

As part of the ninth month of the Colgate Oral Health and the Portuguese Society of Stomatology and Dental Medicine (SPEMD), which runs until late October, the city of Coimbra has free dental screenings. Thus, by the end of the month, the district of Coimbra has 60 offices to perform the screenings free of charge, without X-rays or treatment.

At the same time, across the country are over 1 700 health professionals Oral to participate voluntarily in the campaign, which aims to raise awareness of good oral hygiene habits. The campaign also seeks to have the entire population for the actions to correct oral health in order to prevent any dental disease.

The campaign months of Colgate Oral Health and SPEMD, launched in 2000, has done around 85 thousand free dental screenings, as well as corrected some habits that are affecting the dental health of its population. The population that is interested in participating in the campaign only needs to obtain information from members of the offices nearest the place of residence, or through the Blue Line (808 205 206), available from 9:00 to 23:00 every day.

Fábrica de Conteúdos

306. Regulator of eye health in dentists

305. Minister refuses national network of dental care

Health Minister rejected the possibility of creating a national network of dental care, which would represent "very high costs of financing and maintenance," and defended the advantages of "dental checks, which will benefit thousands of pregnant women and elderly. At a press conference after the first debate of the State Budget for 2008 in the National Assembly, the Minister announced the creation of "dental checks" in the oral health program for pregnant women and elderly, but did not reveal their value by not being also negotiated with the Dental Association (OMD) and possibly with the Order of Physicians, in the activity of doctors dentists.

In an interview with TSF radio, the minister explained that the Dental Association (OMD) will not recommend the establishment of a national network, and start a new process, it is intended that this is the red tape as possible. "These measures are financially supported and controllable", he argued.

In the case of pregnant women, the family doctor of the health center to identify pregnancy issues through a computer, check for the woman to make a dental screening and two for any treatment throughout pregnancy. The estimates of the Ministry of Health is that this program covers 65 thousand pregnant each year that are followed in the health centers and are believed to be the most disadvantaged in social terms "and which are oriented priorities." In the private sector should be followed to 35 thousand pregnant women, who have no access to dental checks.

The elderly who receive the Solidarity Supplement, who already have a share of 75% renewable every three years in the purchase of prostheses, will now receive two vouchers dentist. In total, according to calculations by the Minister Correia de Campos for next year, the Executive plans to increase the funding of the program of oral health of six million to 21 million euros, but the "check-dentist" to be used in clinical private.

The Ministry also provides a bet on the enlargement of the oral health program for children between six and twelve years from the current 66 thousand to 80 thousand covered. "It is very important to reduce tooth decay that affects 50% of children, which is still one too many, but have had only nine percent of children without caries," he recalled.

Destak.pt (7 de Novembro de 2007)

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To know the truth and do not be fooled, it's good to remember the words of former Minister of Health. No courage to assume that the current government is only available for offers chocolates made in attacking the problem of oral health that grace the country.

To what extent are non-aligned or private interests in the area with this atrocious and demagogic policy of denial of basic human rights by the people, practiced by the government of the Socialist Party?

304. City of Santa Maria da Feira: School Health Program

The school health program, through the promotion of oral health and vision screening is crucial to preventing serious diseases, including children at risk. Partnerships launched with public health are examples nationally.

The Oral Health Program is organized by the Health Center in Santa Maria da Feira and traces of the Ophthalmic Hospital of St. Sebastian, both counting with the support of City Hall.

In the year 2008 is expected to establish a partnership with the University Fernando Pessoa in promoting oral health for all day-care children and schools of the first round can be addressed with this project.

Câmara Municipal de Santa Maria da Feira

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Hereby claim access to the referral, this blog ( tempogero@gmail.com ) of the state in this oral health program organized by the Health Center in Santa Maria da Feira, what was the target audience, what kind of intervention was done and what the results already obtained.

303. degree in oral hygiene (ISAVE)

Higher Institute of Health Alto Ave

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