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

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

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

I Journal - Do you have any proposal?

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

I Journal - But this participation exists ...

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

I Journal - see other gaps?

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

I Journal - unsympathetic why?

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

I Journal - This has not happened?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I Journal - There was some awareness?

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

I Journal - are very low?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I Journal - Go to intervene?

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

I Journal - will propose the termination of a course?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I Journal - Graduates?

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

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

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

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

I Journal - How are revenues?

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

I Journal - How big is the problem?

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

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

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

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

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

I Journal - Have you heard that?

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

I Journal - Who?

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

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

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

(Continued)

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460. Smiley Paranho Project: Presentation of results

invitation

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

Faculdade de Medicina Dentária da Universidade do Porto

459. Dentists adopt children and provide free care

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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458. Dentists applaud new rules for licensing of clinics

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

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

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

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

457. Young asks for help to smile again without pain

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Personal note:

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

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

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

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

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

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

Nº 13 62698 2009-06-22

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

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

Nº 14 62711 2009-06-22

Universidade de Aveiro - !UZ – Technologies, Lda.

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

Nº 15 52860 2009-05-19

Direcção-Geral da Saúde - ZON – SIC NOTÍCIAS

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

Nº 16 87945 2009-09-17

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

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

Nº 17 21489 2009-01-26

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

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

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

Transparência na AP

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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453. Crisis brings thousands to treat teeth in colleges

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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452. Dentists are associated with pediatric oral health

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

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

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

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

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451. FDI Annual World Dental Congress

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Internet address:

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

450. Turma do Bem in Portugal, by Oral Health

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

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

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

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

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

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

My sincere compliments, Murilo Casagrande

Turma do Bem Europa

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

449. Dentistry

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

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

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

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

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

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

447. Dental checks to pay for professionals

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

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

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

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

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

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

Jornal de Notícias (April 19, 2010)

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

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

446. Azorean Government invests in school health

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

445. Eight dentists false sentenced to prison

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

444. Over 400 young dentists emigrated to England

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

442. Health risks in one of every three dental

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Justice offers benefits to dentist

pulled all the teeth of student

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

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

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440. A toothbrush with paste incorporated

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

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

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

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

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439. Oral Health and the civil society movement

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

For Oral Health.

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

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

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

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

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

437. fruit peel

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

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

Cavaleiro Andante

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

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

There is nothing surprising in oral health in Portugal.

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

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Information:

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