23) Babies can be served free

Araçatuba, Brazil - The mothers of babies under one year of age can register their children for free preventive care and educational Baby Clinic conducted by the FOA / Unesp (Faculty of Dentistry of Araçatuba / Universidade Estadual Paulista).

Children need to have up to one year to join the service, which extends up to three years. All the educational work of prevention and healing is done by students of the graduate and post-graduate and professional training that are in place, under the guidance of teachers in the area of pediatric dentistry.

The first activity is to a lecture targeted to parents. On each day are served 50 babies. Consultations occur every two months and, on average, the baby passes through the service six times a year. Mothers receive guidelines for diet and oral hygiene. The teacher Frederick Robson Cunha explains that the three and a half years the babies receive high and are referred to the clinic for the prevention, which are served free until the eight.

All this work pediatric search invest in oral health since childhood, since the activities to prioritize prevention to ensure that the child is a healthy adult.

Folha da Região

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I hope this example "get" here in Portugal.

Gerofil

22) Hospital of Saint Spirit of Angra do Heroísmo (Azores)

doctors stomatology clarify the population

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Duly authorized by the Board of the Hospital of Angra and with knowledge of other doctors of stomatology of autonomic region of the Azores are the undersigned signed provide the following clarification to the population following an interview given by Mr. Chairman of the Order of Doctors Dentists (OMD) to a newspaper of Angra do Heroísmo and the various stories that his official visits and hearings provided then.

There are serious and false accusations made to the Department of Stomatology (SE) of the Hospital of Saint Spirit of Angra do Heroísmo. Just to cite a few, it says be limited, read - is restricted, the attention to certain groups, including the elderly, not the urgency of the specialty duly fulfilled; auferirmos ordered millionaires, ... Communicate is also incorrect information.

We, as briefly as possible, and clarify some other and make some hope. This is wrong:

1. What is "limitation of care at the Hospital of Angra…" actually the SE of the hospital in Angra besides not limit access to your query is still a lack of supply of dentists Health Centers (CS) of the Beach and Angra , running in consultation foreign beyond the work itself, some of what should be done in those CS plus the entire emergency dental and medical and surgical pathology of oral maxillary facial area.

2. "The amount of 432000 euros to annual payment of service to doctors for prevention of stomatology (ME) of the autonomic region of the Azores" actually is very well, perhaps deliberately, in the real value. It is the "discomfort" of the authorities when confronted with such imprecision.

3. What is found "… the uncertainty of care in the Emergency Service (SU) of HSEAH…" actually any citizen who go to the hospital SU is observed by the medical service to understand that contact and ask whether or not the presence of the specialist, that is the call and in the prevention regime, is following strict criteria of urgency.

Doubts are:

1. What the dentists can "… to four times more with the same resources…" nor indeed to the tasks they are currently conferred (with priority attention to children up to fifteen years of the two counties of the island) to fully meet that will… the emergency dental and maxillo facial trauma for which they have no jurisdiction…

2. What were "pioneers of dental medicine in the Azores…" indeed even before his group had any medical professional dentists in the archipelago to make dentistry, art dental or dental medicine, but now is called, in addition to other medical condition the oral and surgical equipment. It was the Department of Stomatology of Angra the first to open up the schools complementary part in the region. Will want to be "pioneers" at the national level of its triumphal entry in hospitals through the epicenter of the Third doing in the Azores prior trials ?

3. "What… a doctor-dentist (MD) is a doctor as any other…" actually do a degree in that the first three years have chairs basic common with the course of medicine but then derived for the area dental chairs not making the fundamental the medicine going from first years, the diseases and their treatments. There are also internships general hospital nor of expertise. They are not licensed in medicine but in the call-Dental Medicine, which, for example in Spain, has its equivalent in Dentistry and the American Dental gives the title. The doctors of stomatology make the six-year degree in medicine, followed probationary hospital, often clinical general, the specialty home, evidence of rising public career, and so on., And naturally entered the Order of Doctors as Dermatologists or Cardiologists. The Dentists, like other health professionals, such as Pharmacists, Nurses, etc. Have their own professional Order.

It is surprising:

1. The following sentence uttered by Mr. Chairman of OMD - "that each doctor of stomatology that skirt and she retires, will be replaced by a dentist." What I intend to propose to the authority is inconsistent with the whole speech that perpassa the interview in question and by all the others that we recently have been provided to the representative of OMD in the Azores. The average age of doctors of stomatology in the region walk by forty-five years. According to the law is expected to become the service between ten and fifteen years. It will be realistic and consequent such a proposal, or expect that we end the career advance ?

2. What Mr. Chairman ache "extremely negative the existence simultaneously not peaceful between the two professional groups" It is public and well known that the attacks to doctors of stomatology from dentists, particularly in the County of Angra, have been repeated cyclically to shiver of good rules of ethics and ethics, often using the controversy on this issue as a weapon of political pitch whose purposes are clear. Again, now the voice of his most representative, rather than embrace the path of dialogue and collaboration, which we have always been open and whose usefulness, especially for patients, it is unquestionable, come to a new attack on a sector that it is part of the Regional Health Service.

It is hoped:

- From the tutelage a clarification to the public about the functioning of the Medical Dental Centers in Health and Services of Stomatology, particularly that of Angra, who is unjustly accused, as well as their professional, in breach of his duty.

- The appointment by the Portuguese. Mr Secretary for Social Affairs of a Commission to study the issues involved in oral health in the Autonomous Region of the Azores.

- That this time the doctors of stomatology and maxillo facial surgeons can be heard, because they and the public and private sides will also, in addition to its systemic impact, the health of the mouth, teeth and jaw of the population of the Azores.

Bruno Walter Ferreira, José Manuel Rosa and Valentim Araújo

Diário Insular

21) Technical integration of bone, 80% of attendances free

Bauru, S. Paulo (Brazil) - Opened for almost a year, but running since January, the Office Branemark, which Bauru become a world reference in the technical integration of bone, which allows recover parts of the body uniting bones and prostheses with the titanium screws, including teeth, have a challenge ahead: meet the around 4 thousand people are on the waiting list.

People who do not have any teeth and the victims of mutilations caused by accidents or diseases such as cancer and bad-training are priorities. The operations are done by volunteer doctors and dentists who are displaced from various parts of Brazil.

By law, 80% of attendances have to be free.

Jornal da Cidade de Bauru

20) Hypothesis to leave the most beautiful smile

Santa Cruz do Sul, Brazil - One of the biggest moved the 6 th Imperafest was the bus with stomatology office of the prefecture, in which consultations were provided free to all who asked. It was an opportunity for the children learn the techniques of cleaning the teeth and the care that must have to stay healthy with a smile. Adults also not lost a chance to make a visit to the dentist.

Gazeta do Sul

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Here is how the municipalities in Brazil invest in the health of its citizens. It is a shame that so many elected officials choose the Portuguese to Brazil as a tourist destination does not have a minimum of intelligence to copy here for the good examples that are made there.

Gerofil

19) Up to 7 years old

Did you know to be parents to brush your teeth and maintain the cleanliness of the language, in the case of children up to 7 years of age?

Gerofil

18) Students visit to the post of Family Health

Student council

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Students from the 8 th series of the School Municipal Willibaldo Michel, the High Spanish, inside of Valley of the Sun, made a visit to the post of Family Health (PSF) Anita Garibaldi, the High Trombudo, last week, to check the work that is developed in unity.

The activity is part of the shares of the project's Board of Council, called the Student Session. The young participants engaged in symbolic form, the work of the council and therefore are investigating some municipal services management.

Initially, the nurse Carla Simone de Oliveira Bopp said that the team is formed by a doctor, a nurse, technician, nurse, a dental assistant from office, a dentist and seven community health agents, who work from Monday to Friday. The nurse stressed that the team serves, currently, 497 families from the mountain region and the whole program is aimed at the prevention of disease, which goes far beyond healing practices. One of the goals is to inform the community charge and actions that seek to improve the quality of life of the family.

Gazeta do Sul

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Of interest: instead of being the technicians of health to go to schools, young people are invited to go to units of health.

Gerofil

17) Teams make home visits

Lages (Santa Catarina, BRAZIL) - According to repassados by the Municipal Bureau of Health, Oral care, the program has gained prominence with the community. They are 18 teams entered in 33 teams of the Family Health Program (PSF). The workload is of 40 hours per week and the teams operate in neighborhoods Guaruja, Saint Helena, Tribute, San Pedro, Santa Catarina, Santa Monica, Petrópolis, Gethal, Penha and San Carlos.

According to the municipal secretary of Health, Heron Anderson de Souza, the teams develop activities of home visits and care for groups of pregnant, hypertensives and diabetics. "Inside the city we have office car that meets at various locations. It is a real laboratory of itinerant dentistry, "says Heron. The team's work, Oral PSF is a dentist and a dental assistant from office.

The teams meet on average 2,400 people a month. "The department's Ready Municipal Dental Care serves emergency cases and works in area attached to the Ready Relief Tito Bianchini. This is a service that gains prominence with the community" Heron stresses.

WebLages.com

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Initiatives that are also extremely lacking in Portugal. We hope to see.

Gerofil

16) Prostheses and appliances will be donated (Note: this is not in Portugal)

The Prefecture of Joao Pessoa will offer appliances and dental prostheses, free of charge, for the low-income population of the municipality. People with problems of occlusion in the dental arcade will be benefited with the placement of the apparatus, beyond monitoring of the entire treatment.

The Secretariat of Health of the Municipality will make a consultancy with the support of the oral health technicians from the Ministry of Health in order to define the age group that will have priority in attendance. According to the director of the Center for Dental Specialties (CEO), Danilson da Cruz, the idea is to prioritize the care for the most serious cases in children and pre-adolescents. The screening will be done via the Family Health Units.

The forecast is deploying the service until the end of this year. Danilson said John Person has a network of primary care in oral health composed by 180 teams, each made up of a dentist and one of Consultório Dental Assistant (ACD). For each unit of the Family Health Program (PSF), said there is a team of dentistry working eight hours a day, from Monday to Friday. The daily average are 16 attendances per team, according to the director of the CEO.

Among the procedures are included application of fluoride; periodontal treatment (gingiva); prophylaxis (cleaning); extraction and dental restorations. Since 95% of the procedures using resin (the color of the tooth).

The first competition of Smile School, promoted by SMS, will elect the five students with the best smiles of the 1 st to 4 th series of teaching basic public network. Among the requirements are to participate in workshops of the "Action Odonto-educational," be from the public, does not have carie and have good school performance. Registration is open until the 15th of September.

Jornal da Paraíba
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There is not a single day that come to us examples in the implementation of policies for oral health, when we speak of Brazil. For now, it would be rather interesting to know what the politicians able to have equal gestures not interested by their countrymen.

Unfortunately, looking at the national picture, which does not lack there are unscrupulous politicians that the cost of taxes that we all pay, are dedicated to major festivals and tours by air free for people of the third age, but there are forgotten what the poorer both need: positive discrimination in the quality of access to health care (because it is so the strength of our current democracy, expressed in the votes during the elections).

Gerofil

15) Island of Madeira and Porto Santo: Dental Medicine with more consultations, of course

The number of consultations of dental medicine in the health center of Porto Santo, will increase in the next month of October, found the JM. When we mentioned, instead of the current three days, the port-santenses will be made available to dentists in the health unit, for four days a week (Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays).

If to say that the residents in Porto Santo will have more reason to smile. It is recalled that since the Regional Oral Health Program has been implemented in the Region, in 1997, the problems related to carie dental, and especially the children, have been decreasing significantly in some counties. But, in Porto Santo, the situation has remained more or less equal, and that children aged six and the 9 years are those that have made the most damaged teeth.

Please note that the council of Porto Santo is the only one of the Region, which provides oral health and also dental medicine at the health center location.

Jornal da Madeira
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Here is another example that takes too long to become normal in any Health Center on the mainland. For some reason it makes sense there autonomic regions ...

Gerofil

14) Search UnB cariogenic relates to the production of saliva

One of the factors directly associated with the increase of cariogenic is the low flow of saliva. This relationship has been proven in a study at the University of Brasilia (UnB) by Soraya Leal, teacher of the Department of Dentistry (ODT) of the institution.

"The world scientific literature is inconclusive about the relationship of saliva with the cariogenic," said Soraya the agency FAPESP. "By this account, we show that relationship in practice, by means of laboratory tests on 60 children," he says.

Of the 35 children who had no teeth damaged, all had salivary flow between normal and high. However, the other 25 that had damaged teeth had little saliva. The researchers have yet to review systematically through databases on the Internet, with articles on the subject published in international scientific journals. "Based on 70 scientific work we find that the probability of the individual submitting cárie is much greater when the production of saliva is less than 1 milliliter per minute," said Soraya.

The study of UnB also found the relationship between teeth damaged with the pH of saliva. In children who had salivary pH neutral, between 6 and 7, the problem has not been identified. Meanwhile, the cariogenic were more frequent in children who had a saliva more acidic, with pH less than 5.

Soraya explains that to maintain the steady flow of saliva in the mouth and prevent the Streptococcus mutans, the cariogenic bacteria, the individual needs ingest enough water. Another option is the intake of solid foods. As mastigá them requires a greater effort of the salivary glands, the production of saliva has increased.

There are foods, however, that make the Streptococcus mutans prolifere much faster. And as most people already know, sugar is the great villain of cariogenic, "warns the researcher.

According to her, as a natural component of the mouth, the saliva is the first defender against the teeth damaged because of its antimicrobial properties. "If the salivary flow falls, the pH also decreases. And the pH of saliva is responsible for the control of the minerals of the tooth. "

Universia

13) Clinics conducted by the regional health

To the Honorable Secretary of State for Health:

By this I ask the middle that should the report on the complete list of all clinics conducted by the regional health, as part of the National program of oral health and pursuant to Order signed last December.

I undertake to disclose the list of clinics to all schools of education to ensure equal access of all children and young people of the country those health care. I am now awaiting the requested information.

Yours sincerely

Gerofil

12) The attention of all primary and secondary schools in Portugal

The National Program Oral Health sets as a goal for 2010 all children between three and 16 years have access to a dentist. An order signed by the Secretary of State for Health, Francisco Ramos, last December, approved the contract of clinics by each Regional Health Administration. The state pay 75 euros for each patient.
According to the Directorate General of Health, 140 thousand children have been treated under programs of this kind. The aim is to extend the service to all of this age and pregnant. The model serves as the clinical testing: a patient goes to a private office, but the expense is archway by the state.
Diário de Notícias (22 de Fevereiro de 2006) Daily News (February 22, 2006)
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Someone disclose or publish the full list of clinics already provide service under this order? I would inform me this list to be published here and sent by email to all schools in the country - the children and young grateful.
Gerofil

11) Apple combat infections of the mouth in an indian village

The apple is being used in an indigenous village of Mato Grosso do Sul and cariogenic to prevent gum disease in the 150 children who live at the site. Every 15 days, the National Health Foundation (Funasa) sends the fruit to the village Cerrito, in Eldorado. The stock managed to reduce to 12% the number of cariogenic among the indians of the village. The use of the fruit is part of the Oral Health Program, developed by Funasa in the villages of the country.

The program also includes specialized meetings and cleaning supervised by dentists every week. The fruit is also part of the school lunch and is being distributed to families indigenous consume at home. The dentist Roselena Caseiro Lopes, who serves on the project, explains that, because of the apple is a fruit consistent, it helps the hygienisation and, it is rich in vitamins, strengthens the teeth. "The food could be the carrot, but chosen by the apple flavor and because children like much," he said.
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10) Guimarães: Half of the children has the teeth damaged

Over fifty per cent of children of Guimarães has the teeth damaged to 6 years, according to a study the Institute of Health of the High Ave (ISAVE). Faculty and students from Institute studied 1,200 children in the District, concluding that, at 3 years, the number of cariogenic does not exceed the 17%. But, from that age and up to 6 years, it hardly suffers greatly increased.
However, in the county, there are already initiatives to counter the teeth damaged such as GUISO - Guimarães the Sorrir, a program of oral health. Alexandra Santos, doctor of Public Health, said that the GUISO aims to 'make the diagnosis of the situation' and see how is the Council towards the targets of the National Program for the Promotion of Oral Health.
The doctor also revealed that studied the snacks for children to make comparisons and identify strategies for schools. "The objective is to correct the food in schools, changing habits of oral hygiene. We want a change of habits in school and hope to continue in the family, "materialized the same prescription.
The World Health Organization (WHO) claims that in 2020, eighty per cent of children under 6 years is free of cárie. Mário Rui Araújo, coordinator of the Course of Oral Hygiene of ISAVE, alert to the fact that they can make huge programs "to change habits but not all are effective." For this to happen, these programs must take into account the reality of the situation, define the targets to intervene, are pedagogically appeal and contarem with the participation of the entire community, from families to teachers, through the local authorities and experts in health.
The ISAVE is located in Povoa do Lanhoso and now has 1,600 students.
O Primeiro de Janeiro The Early January