Thursday, 25 October 2007

4) One example of our brothers (Extremadura)

More than 28,000 children receive oral health care provided by the Servicio Extremeño de Salud.
Children 6, 7 and 8 years are the beneficiaries of the Child Care Plan de Extremadura (PADIEx) launched in the middle of last year by the SES. As reported by the Board of Extremadura in a note, also in January, incorporates children along this year will meet 6. The Board has noted that between January and June this year have been incorporated in this plan nearly 10,000 boys and girls extremeños born in 2000 and have received some assistance in the slips which includes the relationship of dentists, either SES, and the private sector, whose queries can go to receive assistance under the PADIEx.Así explains the Regional Administration, the new 10,000 children had joined the 19,052 born in the years 1998 and 1999 which began on last year to receive assistance that includes oral treatments core (sealants, fluoride, cleanings, fillings and extractions) and treatments (endodoncias, attention to injuries ....).
The most frequently used treatments are associated with dental education, sealants and fillings. To care for children included in the PADIEx provides care spread of 173 points by the Autonomous Community, dentists attended by both the public and private sectors; 98 located in the province of Badajoz and 75 in Cáceres.
The Board noted that this program is directed dental care to all children residing in the autonomous community who are entitled to health care under the SES. Children begin to receive care when they reach the age of six and remain in the program until 15.
The aim of this initiative is to improve the oral health status of the child population extreme, stressing prevention from an early age and allowing create healthy habits that result in the reduction of certain diseases later in life. In this way, each child who receives assistance through the oral PADIEx have a dental practitioner who is responsible for their oral health and to children who performs an annual review, makes recommendations higiénicos-sanitarias it deems appropriate, apply preventive measures and certain treatments, and also responds to emergency dental they arise. They are not including treatments repairers in primary teeth, or orthodontics.
Other plans of care-Finally, the Board has stressed in his note that in addition to the PDIEX y en lo que se refiere a dental assistance, the Ministry of Health and Consumer Affairs, through the Servicio Extremeño of Health, has launched other specific plans as is the Dental Care Program for Pregnant and Plan of Dental Care for Persons with Disabilities Psíquica (PADDI). The latter was qualified for the Patient Advocacy Association (ADEPA); In its report of 2005 as a major achievement of the health system and an initiative extremeño "laudable and praiseworthy" that "many should take note."
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