357. Mouthwash promotes oral cancer

The use of mouthwash in Brazil grew 2277% from 1992 to 2007, shows a survey conducted by the dental surgeon Marco Antônio Manfredini, a researcher at the School of Public Health at USP (Universidade de Sao Paulo), based on information from the Brazilian Association Personal Hygiene, Perfumery and Cosmetics. From 2002 to 2007, the increase was 190%.

For Manfredini, encouraging the indiscriminate use of mouthwash should be criticized. "We observed a large investment in inducing the use of the product. And it's important to say that, unlike the paste, brush and floss, mouthwash does not have universal statement. We need to concentrate to use specific cases."

Besides not being essential to oral health, the frequent use of mouthwash with alcohol increases the risk of cancer of the mouth and pharynx. A scientific review published in late 2008 in the journal of the Australian Academy Dental compiled studies from around the world who have found this relationship. According to the researchers, there is enough evidence to accept the idea that mouthwash with alcohol contributing to higher rates of oral cancer.

Much of the products sold in Brazil contains ethanol. A Brazilian study conducted with 309 patients last year and published in the Journal of Public Health also found the same association. Some brands have up to 26% alcohol, and there are people who use every day. Today there are products on the market without alcohol, which should be the chosen, the oncologist said Luiz Paulo Kowalski, director of the Department of Head and Neck Surgery, Hospital A. C. Camargo and an author of the work.

According to Anvisa (National Agency for Sanitary Vigilance), manufacturers are obliged to inform the packaging the presence of alcohol in the composition. The alcohol present in enxaguantes contributes to increasing rates of oral cancer in a manner similar to alcohol - and it is known that alcohol is a second risk factor for the disease, after smoking, increasing from five to nine times the risks.

Joke that the person drinks without enjoying the good part of the drink. The product is not because alcohol is an antiseptic, but because it is a very efficient vehicle, industrially convenient and very cheap. So no alcohol versions tend to be more expensive, explains Alberto Consolaro dentist, professor of pathology, Faculty of Dentistry of Bauru, USP.

Alcohol is not a cancer-causing agent in isolation, but an enzyme the body turns into acetaldehyde, a substance that can alter cells in the mouth and cause tumors in the region. The problem is to use the product every day, because the harm of not giving the cells time to repair. The use of mouthwash [alcohol] needs further study, but it's something like what happens with the cigarette, the more exposure the greater the risk, says Kowalski. Therefore, dentists recommend the use of the product without alcohol, be manipulated, either brand.

The product is a good helper to clean the mouth but do not contain alcohol. People think that burning a mouth rinse is best, but good product need not give that feeling. The antiseptic is not Alcoa, says Consolaro.

Dentists recommend using mouthwash after surgery, tooth scaling, cases of high incidence of tooth decay, gum disease and for people who have no motor skills to accomplish a good brushing. For the general population, the use is optional, although much of this type of product advertising to suggest that he fights bad breath.

From the viewpoint of oral hygiene, it is not necessary. Who has good oral hygiene usually does not have halitosis - and, if so, is not the mouthwash will solve the problem, says Manfredini.

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356. Dental check: How to pass the praise to disappointment ... Shame!

José Socrates delivered the first

dental checks for children

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José Socrates considered the "dentist check" which will cover 200,000 children, as a good example of "strategic cooperation" between private and public admitted to extend this experience to other areas of the National Health Service.

The prime minister has attended a meeting in the grouping of schools Nuno Gonçalves, Penha de France, in Lisbon, after having delivered the first dental checks for students with seven, ten and thirteen years, and highlighted as key features of the program free choice of provider, ensuring fairness and absence of waiting lists. According to Jose Socrates, with the start of the assignment of the first dentist checks for young students, the National Health Service gave a very important step:

- Elsewhere in the developed world, is a challenge for the National Health Services the question of hygiene and oral healthcare. The National Health Service began to fulfill its mission with regard to oral health for society when the Portuguese Government has decided for the allocation of dental checks for specific target audiences such as youth, elderly and pregnant women.

The prime minister also said that the goal of government is mobilizing structures and resources already existing in the country in the area of oral health in the service of the National Health Service. Therefore, the Government refused to create more than one service within the National Health Service, which is an alternative to the private system, before deciding to use the system to the private services of public objectives.

We want everyone, regardless of economic status, have access to dentistry. Families who are enrolled in this program with complete autonomy to choose which dentist to go. And choose without having to wait for the next year or in three or four months, because this system ensures access to a dentist with no waiting list, stressed José Sócrates.

PS

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Delays in payments away from dentists

dental checks

Again the first compliment that reality comes later; for those who are not minimally aware, it is good to start thinking about the good intentions of leaders we have. After all, when the work first and then the praise?

355. Soft brushes and clean teeth

The correct choice of toothbrush should begin in early childhood and care for the teeth should begin from the birth of the first teeth. For this reason, you must use the correct brush for this stage of life.

Brushing the teeth of babies and children should be done in an enjoyable and fun, just to encourage the habit of brushing and ensure the quality of oral health in later years. According to the dentist Hugo Roberto Lewgoy at this stage of life, one must be careful not to cause an aversion of tiny in relation to oral hygiene habits.

- The gums of babies and children are very delicate and sensitive. Recommend the use of brushes with a large number of bristles and ultra texture - explains the expert.

Offer to children a toothbrush that allows the efficient and proper cleaning of the teeth without hurt or injure the gums, is the greatest contribution that parents can offer to ensure oral health throughout life for their children. Therefore, the brush is shown shortly after the outbreak of the first deciduous teeth (also known as "baby teeth"), between five and nine months, until six or seven years old, when there is the beginning of eruption of permanent teeth.

An important issue is that the child brush can not only be beautiful or full of flashy visual appeal, it must be a quality and can not injure the gums.

- The brush should provide features developed specifically for this age group, for example, the presence of a small head and anatomical setae rounded and polished and a cable that adapts easily to small little hands - he explains.

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

Oral diseases in childhood and adolescence (Part 1)

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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 against 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).

Dental caries in 12 years - In this study it was found that at 12 years old, "the regions of Alentejo, the North and the Azores, such as those youth groups with dental caries rates higher." They are also the Alentejo and the Azores where there are young people with fewer teeth treated. Thus, the study shows that dental caries affect more often in young people who have their teeth treated.

Note that the study finds that these changes are significant, given the national average, this means that there are significant regional disparities in the country and as such, the geographic residence of young people 12 years of age directly determines its oral health.

Obviously there will be cultural factors intrinsic to the families that determine the importance given to oral health care of children under 12 years of age, but identified the significant contrasts between the different regions will also have to be to a large extent with the wicked policies of health followed by the country over the past decades and helped to enhance the discrimination of more peripheral regions.

We therefore urgently implement the transfer of resources and public resources to where today there are so many needs, it is to implement public policies to encourage organizations and oral health professionals to settle down with those who need it most, while those not arise policy, children who are now living in Alentejo and the Azores are more unprotected and without equal access to oral health care that exist in other regions of the country, of course, this will bring incalculable consequences that will extend throughout the lives of these children.

Link: The National Study of Prevalence of Oral Diseases 2008

353. 10 tips to keep your smile looking good

1. Brush your teeth at least two / three times daily, preferably after meals and before retiring;

2. Use a brush of appropriate size, soft and with a small head to prevent injuries to the teeth and gums;

3. Search Always use a toothpaste with 1,000 to 1,500 ppm of fluoride (ask your dentist which toothpaste best suited for your teeth);

4. Avoid brushing your teeth only in the horizontal puts the brush slightly tilted in the passage by the teeth, so they do not wear over time;

5. Use dental floss daily before brushing to remove food debris and bacteria that exist between spaces and between the teeth and gums;

6. Follows the recommendations of your dentist in the use of elixir for rinsing;

7. Seeks to maintain and clean the teeth, especially along the gum line, preventing plaque and tartar;

8. Makes a regular dental review, preferably of 6 in 6 months, and an oral check-up at least once during the year;

9. Maintain a balanced diet and seeks to replace the candy for more nutritious foods like cheese, fruit and vegetables;

10. If you have sensitive teeth visit a dentist because it may be an indicator of dental caries, tooth fracture.

Professor Escovinha

352. Opening speech of the Minister of Health in the hearing of the Parliamentary Health

Opening speech of the Minister of Health

the hearing of the Parliamentary Health

(April 21, 2009)

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President of the Parliamentary Committee on Health, ladies and gentlemen, Social Communication: It is with great pleasure that I am here to answer questions from the gentlemen. I expressed my readiness for some time, but for the sake of this House, only now been realized.

This year the National Health Service (SNS in Portuguese language) is 30 years. In those decades there were many demographic, social, economic and cultural rights to which the SNS has had to adapt. We have given continuity to the reforms that are part of this government program, implementing the measures deemed relevant. The policies are certain to lead to the end. Our responsibility is to the citizen. Thirty years later, we call for a National Health Service refreshed and able to respond to new needs, but based on the same principles: universal, free general and tend, as one of the foundations of the Portuguese Health System.

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The extension of the Oral Health Programme to the younger: The allocation of vouchers to pregnant women and elderly dentist beneficiaries of the solidarity supplement for the elderly, which to date amount to a total of more than 50,000 checks, was a success. It was decided to extend this program to younger students.

Later this month, children and youth with 7, 10 and 13 years who attend public schools will have access to oral health consultations and, if necessary, be entitled to two or three checks for dental treatment. This measure is the necessary complement to the Prevention of existing dental caries. In total, 190 000 children will be covered.

Are also being made available over 20,000 vouchers for dental treatment of children with needs identified in surveys of global health, the 4-5 years before entry to compulsory education.

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351. Oral hygiene in children under two years - advice for young daddies!

Oral hygiene for children should be taken seriously early on, as it is in childhood that gives the calcification of permanent teeth. And children learn the importance of taking care of teeth and hygiene of your mouth, parents should lead by example, brushing teeth in front of her. Then, it is interesting to buy a toothbrush for children motivate her. She must really enjoy brushing their teeth the greater their interest and affinity with the brush, the better.

The child should be encouraged to chew it happens to a good development of the masticatory apparatus. Teeth are essential for speech, since the early loss of teeth can damage the pronunciation of some phonemes or causing bad habits, such as the interposition of the tongue. And the aesthetic function is also very important because children who lose a baby tooth too soon become a joy by colleagues, and this can cause psychological problems.

Toilette kit with:

-Cut nails with non-slip grip;

-Toothbrush for the little ones;

-Brush teeth / gum stimulator for the newborn;

-Brush and Comb with Soft Grip handles;

-Comb-newborn;

-Gloves (2 pairs);

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Before two years

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During this phase, clean the teeth of your child. Use gauze or a wet diaper on the gums, even before the onset of first teeth. When these start to rise, do the following:

-Stay-behind the child, and with one hand, move their lips and cheeks of the child. With the other, brush sides of outside and inside of the teeth in a circular motion;

-Brush the upper teeth (chewing surface) with movements of coming and going;

-Brush the tongue.

Important: Use the toothpaste is not recommended at this age, because it contains fluoride, which is toxic if ingested in large quantities. If you want to use the folder, apply a very small amount. Do not risk it. In case of large intake of toothpaste, call your doctor immediately.

Professor Escovinha

350. S. Pedro do Sul: City distributes oral hygiene kits to children

About 1200 children attending schools in the first cycle of basic education and garden-schools in the municipality of S. Pedro do Sul will be covered with an oral hygiene kit consisting of a toothbrush and toothpaste, offered by the City Council. Delivery of the first kits took place on April 14, the School of the first cycle of basic education from the village of S. Pedro do Sul. The activities are in charge of the team of School Health Center for Health S. Pedro do Sul and Technical Education in the City.

The project, developed in partnership with the Center for Health S. Pedro do Sul in the context of Education for Health, has as main objective to work with children in general hygiene and oral hygiene in particular, promoting the acquisition of knowledge, skills and competencies to promote their oral health. In addition, the program intends to demonstrate the importance of maintaining oral health for a healthy lifestyle; changing oral hygiene habits, raise awareness about the importance of consulting a dentist regularly, and in children implement the good habit of brushing their teeth after meals.

For Councillor for Education and Social Welfare of the municipality, Rogério Duarte, a good gift for parents, guardians and society in general can offer smaller is the possibility of having a healthy dentition, which accompanies the end of their lives. The town hall, attentive and concerned about the welfare of future generations, wants to give the kick-off for a process that judges be extremely important - health, oral health in this case. We believe that children today, a day to recognize how important it was for your health this initiative.

Alderman also notes: "It is our belief that the stakes that we have been doing in education and training in our children proud of will in the near future."

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All campaigns raise awareness for oral health are welcome. For this initiative the City of S. Pedro do Sul, raises the question whether the promoters of the initiative were careful to do before the screening of the oral health of all children involved and whether it's because your referral doctor.

At a time when senior political leaders of the country are more concerned to discuss if the schools become the gateway to the distribution of condoms to adolescents without economic needs and hunger than providing health care to those who need such as bread to the mouth, the remainder goes to local government bridging the obligations of the Ministries of Education and Health (since they do nothing for the primary health of children and adolescents who attend schools in the country, voted to all kinds of abandonment and the fate of their day to day).

Shameful, very shameful behavior concerning oral health care of children and adolescents, by the Government, Members of the majority in parliament and even the President of the Republic, that a country that is part of the European Union.

349. The mouth should not be treated when only gives problems

The Medical and Dental (Caldas da Rainha), located at Rua Heróis da Grande Guerra, number one hundred and three, second floor, aims to provide its patients the highest standards of clinical and scientific rigor. A native of Lisbon, the dentist Gonçalo Seguro Dias acquired the Medicine and Dentistry in 2003 and now divides his work between Caldas da Rainha and Lisbon. It is also an assistant of surgery and oral medicine at the School of Dental Medicine, University of Lisbon.

He graduated from the Faculty of Dental Medicine of Lisbon and attended Columbia University, an institution of higher education located in New York City. Their main concern is that their patients have good oral health.

According to the dentist, the mentality of the Portuguese in relation to oral health is changing. A few years ago most people used the dentist only when they had toothache. Today people are increasingly looking for fixed solutions, have more care than they did a few years ago, he said, adding that it is essential to the maintenance of oral hygiene. Therefore, the doctor advises that patients resort to dentists from a young age to allow for preventive action.

JORNAL DAS CALDAS - Nowadays we hear a lot of dental implants. What are they?

GONÇALO SEGURO DIAS - The dental implant is an artificial means for replacing a lost or more roots, being constituted of titanium, which is a material that is not rejected. We are talking about a technique that has 97-99% success.

JORNAL DAS CALDAS - Who can put them?

GONÇALO SEGURO DIAS - Anyone can make implants, provided that your dentist does not find any contraindications.

JORNAL DAS CALDAS - And it is a very complex procedure?

GONÇALO SEGURO DIAS - No, this is a technique that has evolved in recent years and has simplified the whole procedure. Initially, under local anesthesia (similar to one used to treat tooth decay), your dentist places the number of implants planned and appropriate to his case (depending on the number of missing teeth). After 3-5 months, is made final fixed prosthesis that replaces missing teeth, and that will be supported by the implants placed above.

JORNAL DAS CALDAS - And any dentist can do the procedure?

GONÇALO SEGURO DIAS - This is a surgical procedure and as such should be performed by a specialist. Of course, people should inform themselves about the process and obtain all possible information. Everything must be explained to the patients.

JORNAL DAS CALDAS - Is it really possible for a person coming out soon with teeth fixed?

GONÇALO SEGURO DIAS - Yes, in most cases we can so that patients can leave the clinic with teeth fixed provisional.

JORNAL DAS CALDAS - There are a large number of people seeking these treatments?

GONÇALO SEGURO DIAS - I can tell you that in 2008 we did 400 implants, patients who have Portuguese, English, Irish, Swiss, etc.. That is, to a large number of people is the only solution.

JORNAL DAS CALDAS - Recently participated in the "Doctor, I need help," TVI. Possible transformations are really so great?

GONÇALO SEGURO DIAS - Nowadays, everything is possible. We managed to give teeth to patients with bone, without bone, it's all a matter of technique. What patients need to understand is that it is a process that takes several steps.

JORNAL DAS CALDAS - In your opinion, what are the main merits of the program?

GONÇALO SEGURO DIAS - I think he was a very important role in informing patients about many aspects of dentistry, somewhat demystified a series of concepts.

JORNAL DAS CALDAS - And how is the oral health of the Portuguese?

GONÇALO SEGURO DIAS - Bad for the average of developed countries. Eventually we had patients between thirty and forty years old with no teeth who can not chew ... this is quality of life? My big battle is to try the Portuguese begin to think that the mouth is an essential commodity and not a necessary evil that must be treated only when it gives problems.

JORNAL DAS CALDAS - How does the dentistry in Portugal?

GONÇALO SEGURO DIAS - We have in Portugal of the finest dentists worldwide. We have professionals who are required to take courses abroad which are engaged in exciting projects at the colleges. In this respect we improved a lot over the last decades. Now what is possible is not the same dentist know everything about every area. If we want to work with quality, we have to work as a team by areas of expertise. This is the future. It's the only way to guarantee our patients that are having the best treatment. So today we have a great team and my motto is quality.

Marlene Sousa
Jornal das Caldas

348. oral hygiene

Oral hygiene is a very old practice and is part of building and strengthening positive self-image. The main oral diseases and changes caused by a poor oral hygiene are: dental caries, gingivitis, periodontitis and halitosis.

The plaque, responsible for the onset of the diseases mentioned above, consists of microbes (bacteria) and components of saliva that strongly adhere to teeth, a condition that allows it to withstand the forces of self-cleaning physiological, related to the movements of the tongue and cheeks.

Dental caries is a localized disease and with origin in bacteria. These bacteria, from the sugars of foods, produce acids that cause a loss of minerals from the tooth, forming a cavity with time on it.

Gums that are red, swollen and bleed easily, are signs of gingivitis.

Periodontitis is inflammation and destruction of tissues supporting the teeth in the mouth, or there is bone loss and alteration of the gums, making teeth with mobility and "emaciated."

These diseases can cause an entry of bacteria into the blood threatening the entire body (eye disorders, heart, bone, gut, kidneys, lungs, glands, joints).

Halitosis, or bad breath, derives from the Latin halitus which means breath and the Greek suffix osis meaning condition. Halitosis can become a serious problem because of the difficult interpersonal relationships or decrease self-esteem.

The first step to eliminate or alleviate halitosis, is thought to have good oral hygiene, cleaning the tongue with a brush or own cleaners and before bedtime gargle with mouthwash.

Holders of dental prosthesis, should always wash it and after meals and dip once a week in disinfectant solutions.

They should drink plenty of water during the day, especially if you feel dry mouth and particularly in this case, one should stimulate the salivary glands with chewing gum and sugar free candy, because saliva has a cleaning function and protection of mouth.

It is important to make a diet rich in fiber foods, avoiding spicy and with a strong odor (onion and garlic) and being a long time without eating, because food is the best way to stimulate the salivary glands. Tobacco and alcohol are agents to prevent, as well as dry mouth, are great promoters of halitosis.

If you have good oral hygiene and halitosis persists, consult your dentist or dental hygienist, because only they can tell if you have other factors that cause halitosis, such as dental caries, gingivitis, periodontitis, low salivary flow and excess plaque and tartar.

Preventing oral disease:

1. Brush your teeth after the main meals and at bedtime, with a brush or soft and medium hardness with a fluoride toothpaste and keep it in your mouth for at least two minutes;

2. Pass the floss once a day;

3. Use mouthwash as they have an important role in preventing tooth decay and tooth sensitivity;

4. Making a healthy diet (avoiding sweets between meals and consuming foods with fiber);

5. Consult the dentist or dental hygienist twice a year.

Sofia Machado
Médicos de Portugal

347. Balance of the National Oral Health

The Directorate - General Health

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This serves to request, under the School Health Programme of the Directorate General of Health, detailed information such as balance, about all the interventions made at school during the past academic year or, alternatively, in the last calendar year, related to oral health.

Given that the program is aimed at promoting oral health, monitor the implementation of the Global Survey of Health, at 5-6 years and 11-13 years, promoting the development of personal and social skills and identify children at risk of psychiatric disorders, promote equity among students, and aims, among others, to promote and protect health and prevent disease in the educational community and contribute to the promotion of healthy lifestyles, with the audience throughout the educational community of Gardens childhood, School of Basic Education and Secondary Education and other institutions with intervention in middle school, and in compliance with the Protocol signed on February 7, 2006 between the Ministries of Health and Education, asked if a detailed assessment and broken by regions and districts of interventions in schools as part of oral health, particularly the number of consultations with the specialty of Dentistry that children and adolescents have had access after the protocol, and the treatments carried out and monitoring currently done in primary schools and secondary schools in the country.

More thanks to the release of other partnerships as well as any information that becomes relevant and to be circulated to all schools, to ensure equal access to the program by all children and adolescents enrolled in primary and secondary schools across the country.

346. CONSTÂNCIA: Protocol in the area of Oral Health

On April 7, Constância saw signed the Protocol for the Integrated Development of Activities for the Protection and Treatment under Dental Oral Health / School Health, an initiative which took place in the Grand Hall of the Town Hall. The protocol was signed between the Health Center, the Chamber and the Assembly of Schools of Constância.

The protocol is designed primarily to reduce levels of dental caries in permanent teeth of young people who attend the first and second cycle of basic education in the Council of Constância, to supplement the basic program of oral health in Constância, ensuring that all children of school age first and second cycle have access to this program.

O Mirante

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Another initiative to praise starred locally; it is good that these initiatives will serve as an example to the rest of the country.

It is expected that there will be results and that they are always disclosed and made public, it is necessary that the established protocols and produce real results that do not pass a simple theoretical maneuvers then later did not produce any real effect and cause unnecessary spending through the budget public.

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/".

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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.

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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."

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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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