30) Dentists treat children of the hill inside the schools

TOWN OF SIERRA, the Holy Spirit, BRAZIL - The teeth damaged still is a problem that affects many children under six years of age. They exchanged nor the teeth and already suffering from pain, bad breath, and at times must go through a extraction, not to endanger the teeth that still will be born.

The lack of information about appropriate care with oral hygiene of children and to the lack of access to products of personal hygiene are the main motivating this reality. Therefore, in the municipality of the hill, the dentists will in public schools for teaching children to do the treatment and guide the students.

The numbers frighten. In 2000, more than 80% of children of the city, in this age group had already cariogenic. After the dentists came to visit the school, this percentage dropped to 47%, according epidemiological survey conducted last year. Before starting treatment for cleaning and restoration, the students attended lectures on health and attend oral hygiene, learn to brush your teeth in an appropriate manner and still receive kits with pulp and brush the teeth and thong. Then, all the children are tested, and those with cariogenic, undergo special treatment, without the use of drills and without the need for anesthesia. They do not feel pain and are happy with the result.

The small Leandra Aguiar Pereira, in five years, has the treatment here Wednesday. It was with a broken tooth, but said he has already learned how to do from now on. "I can only take ice cream after lunch and then I have to brush the teeth. The treatment was successful because I only have five years and all my cousins have damaged teeth, but I can not be like them, "said Leandra. The dentist Flávia Teubner, who participates in the program, emphasized that children learn easily and also pass the information to their parents and siblings.

The dentist explained that the contribution of the family in the prevention of diseases of the teeth is vital. The oral hygiene should start as soon as the child is born, with the cleaning of the gums. Once the teeth grow, they must be cleaned after every meal. Flávia explained that the health of the tooth of milk will define the quality of the permanent teeth.

Gazeta on Line

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It is the registration and bring down quickly the problems of the teeth in children. Prevention and education are the key weapons for the prevention of diseases. There is sense of the political and to implement policies for prevention from the first years of schooling of children. The Portuguese children so expect; missing know until when?

Gerofil

29) Testimony young in the first person

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I know that I was told by a family doctor, then (end of the seventies) to the query of "dentist" - the Health Center of Alandroal I remember that moved a "dentist" of Elvas. Generally there were twelve to fifteen people to be served in a morning, when the dentist came just go to form an orderly queue and play to take an injection (anesthesia) - I think the same syringe used to inject everyone. Shortly after starting the extractions…

I do not remember any other types of consultation there charged; only if there were - extractions (no cleaning or other treatments). At the end of two hours they were all "treaties" and although there would be the "dentist".

I would have my twelve to thirteen years, the treatments that made me such a dentist were solely to extract teeth-never done a radius X or any other type of oral treatment. If after ten minutes could not draw me a root or a tooth, the dentist "marked me a new query for eight or fifteen days later, so a root harder to extract took sometimes three or four "sessions", ie more than a month to be extracted. I do not know exactly why I tired of both go there and never have finished the treatment (consisting solely to do extractions); also never seen such that the "dentist" make or had any written record of the treatments that was - was all along, or they were children, adults or elderly.

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28) City of the Feira: Dentists give free support to young

About three dozen young people of the county of Santa Maria da Feira already benefited from the support of free dental medicine under the "Service Anchor", the project Rights & Challenges, and that part is already over the treatment, and now, 17 users they are still in service, shows the Board of the Feira.

The list of waiting has some of 30 youths and adults enrolled. To support the implementation of this free at the level of dental medicine, the project Rights & Challenges established protocols of cooperation with three medical dentists who are making a dental treatment in young indicated by institutions / projects of social intervention of the county. Through these protocols, the "Service Anchor" provides the necessary materials and dentists offer their services.

Considering the magnitude of the problem of dental cariogenic of many children and young people at risk social and economic difficulties in their families minimize it, the Rights & Challenges calls to other doctors dentists of the county to join this project, contributing thus, for the physical well-being and self-esteem of many children and young people of the county.

The "Service Anchor" intended as a response to social emergency for the families of the county of Santa Maria da Feira showing persistent poverty, enabling an immediate response to situations of high risk, which forms the support level of dental medicine. This service will also with a resource center for Health, with articles for the rehabilitation and continuing care, which are assigned as a loan to needy families, and the institutions that carry out work in this area.

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An example of what must be done to the municipal level. This is also my contribution to the dissemination of this initiative.

Gerofil

27) Gomera / Canary Islands

Health performs works of improvement and adaptation in the unit for 25,000 euros Dentistry - The Ministry of Health of the Canary Islands government, through the Health Services Management Area Health of La Gomera, has made improvement and adaptation works in the current Unit Dentistry, enabling thereby expand the capacity of intervention this specialty, both in the dental and nursing with a consequent benefit to the citizens of the island.

The unit, located in the old Health Center of San Sebastian, has been with this initiative, the possibility of improving clinical equipment such as new equipment dental extraction adding pieces to existing, new equipment sterilization, carriage of cardiac arrest , among others.

It also creates a new space for administrative development and management fully computerized that allows access to computerized analytical and from the Service Laboratory Hospital Our Lady of Guadeloupe.

From the Health Services Management, believes that since the Unit, which serves approximately over 1,741 adults each year, go with it, improved and guaranteed care, allowing health professionals to work with greater safety and quality.

On the other hand, and from the Management warranted improvements and adaptations, are also supported by the importance of Oral Health Program that takes place in schools. The intervention through this program, affects about 677 children each school year, that program because of its importance and deployment on the island, has enabled significant changes thanks to the preventive treatment to address problems in caries, as well as treatments made in gums.

Another aspect that is served after the improvements, is the promotion of oral health education through various lectures and symposia organized by professionals such unit in schools on the island, whose goal is to get themselves acquiring school hygiene habits and a healthy diet continue to cooperate in maintaining the health of the same.

To that end, the Management, has valued the importance of the unit can also provide new units of the existing training in the same center, with the technical elements and pedagogical enabling or facilitating the work of professionals.

Canárias 24 horas

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It is not exactly the geographical origin of the most important news of this post, what matters Rather, they see how it is out there for the authorities see the need for oral health as a priority investment, trying to ensure that service to the entire population.

For now, we are still far from satisfy the needs of the population. Until when? Are the authorities have not yet grasped the urgent need to respond to this public health problem? I hope that, somehow, with this Blog draw the attention of national public opinion that this problem needs urgent resolution in our country.

Gerofil

26) Smiling gives Health

City Council Cascais, in ordinary meeting of September 4, among other matters, ruled:

Give the Core of Estoril Portuguese Red Cross a fee of 5 thousand euros, to support the "Smiling gives Health". With the aim of promoting oral health, this program has, initially, perform screenings and then ensure dental treatment to children deprived of the neighborhoods of Novo do Pinhal, Galiza, Liberdade and Fim do Mundo.

This program covered last year 112 children and young people, aged 6 and the 14 years.

Desporto na Linha

25) ORAL HEALTH: More some practical examples developed in Brazil

Project will prevent treatment of the teeth in students (Crossroads South, Brazil) - The Secretary of Education crossroads of South launched the project smiling for the future, with the partnership of local schools for teaching basic and early childhood education, with the dentist Denis Ferraz da Silva and with the teacher José Ronaldo Kapczynski. They received training for the deployment of activity in the municipality. The Secretary of Education, Culture and Sport, Solismar Ribeiro Figueiró, explains that the work is a partnership of local government, through the portfolios of Education, Health and Social Service Trade (Sesc).

The project's goal is to develop, with students of the municipality, various actions of the character preventive oral health. They will be met children enrolled in the level B of early childhood education and 1 st to 4 th years of fundamental education.

The intent of the work is to prevent damaged teeth and gingival diseases through education and awareness of the child for self with health and, by consequence, to stimulate self-esteem, teaching a technique for cleaning and use of the thong. The activity will also challenge the skills manual for health through daily practice, providing topical application of fluoride and adopting appropriate diet.

In this line of work, the other novelty of the project smiling for the future is the use of a special technique that aims to answer the larger number of students, using minimal resources and does not need the use of dental office, but only some of the training and equipment . The mayor Artigas Teixeira da Silveira stressed that the work is one of several tools of public health outlined by the current administration.

Gazete do Sul

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Pilot Project of Preven-so is deployed in units of primary education in Cubatão, Brazil-Reduce the incidence of teeth damaged and reach the indexes set by the World Health Organization (WHO) as ideal for 2010. This is the objective of the Program on Education and Prevention in Health, Oral-Preven-so, established several years ago by the Municipal Bureau of Health in kindergartens and schools of early childhood education in the city. Now, the program will also meet other age group, is extending to the students of basic education.

The pilot project was initially implemented in Emef Father Antonio Olivieri, in the Garden Casqueiro, benefiting more than 600 students. In the afternoon of last Monday (28/08), plus a school-Emef Usina Henry Borden has been benefited. There, about 390 students won oral hygiene kit and went to have supervised cleaning of teeth. According to those responsible for the program, the soon-as Preven also will be deployed in Emef Luiz Gustavo de Lima, in Vila Christmas, thus covering more than 1,400 students.

The implementation of the project is made by the Technical Group, Oral Health in partnership with the Municipal Bureau of Education. The Preven-so allows the resumption of the habit of cleaning the teeth that many students lose to join the primary school. Survey done by technicians proved that, by not having the intimate relationship between teachers and students as it is in kindergartens and in teaching children, the routine dde clean the teeth is lost. Another factor that contributes to this is the continuing awakening of the sense of shame in children, as their age developments.

The program also counts with the participation of voluntary associations of parents and teachers (APMs) and monitors the class. Students receive an oral hygiene kit containing a dental school child of soft bristles, a tube of cream and a roll of dental thong. The kit is kept in the school itself for the exclusive use of the student and must be used every day after lunch. The evaluation of the program is done every three months, when the technical team going in the units to investigate the results obtained using the technique of highlighting of bacterial plaque.

Depending on the results, as Preven-will be extended to all schools of basic education of the municipality, which will allow even greater reduction of the indices for the epidemiological diseases bucais more common.

Prefeituria Municipal de Cubatão

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Anyone who has followed this blog will already have been realized as local authorities and central Portugal and Brazil assume postures differentiated on the oral health of the population, in this case it seems that we, Portuguese, we still have much to understand with the work currently in Brazil.

I hope that these posts serve as a warning so that we create also in Portugal policies that allow that any Portuguese citizen can enjoy time of oral health services, regardless of their social condition.

Gerofil

24) Point of View

For almost all the people there are essentially three times in the year when you think of the past and the future prospect is, outlining from then onwards, new objectives and targets. One is the changing seasons of the year, another is on our anniversary (may be simultaneous with one of the other) and the last case at the time of holidays.

We are therefore at the time of trying to fix past mistakes and seek to improve several points that we consider essential to our well-being and the people around us. For example, this may be the ideal time to decide to stop smoking. Increasingly people have managed to abandon a habit that proves it causes serious health problems, so all times are optimal for making this decision.

Another issue that has major impact on general health, both in mental and physical is the increase in weight. However, there is no better time to try to lose some quilitos than this. So why is the season for beach and like to be with good point. The increase in weight and obesity issues are increasingly present.

In recent years we have seen a substantial increase in people fat or obese, a situation resulting from our development, with a consequent increase in the purchasing power and access to goods and facilities that predispõem that this occurs. That is, on one hand we have access to all the food they like, on the other hand, hardly have to make any effort to "burn" some of the calories you eat, because the vast majority of the population has his own car, command of television, lift , ...

The issue of obesity is not only the aspect of the person who is at issue, but also, most importantly, their health. Everyone knows the risks and repercussions several that excess weight poses to the general health of people, an issue that obliges us to think seriously in the care we should have with the food. It is important to know what you should eat, and how to eat. So this is the ideal time to rethink their eating habits. For that you have to try to match its power to exercise that performs daily. Most of the time this will only be possible with the help of specialized technical personnel (doctor, nutritionist) and, with great determination and good sense itself. But it is essential that the strength of will, because the demands and temptations are permanent. Since the parties, the shopping and advertising are enough to discourage all. Incidentally I still have the opinion that the company now has to defend itself of the imbalances that will create.

In the case of food, knowing the negative influence that the "fast-food" has been taking on the health of the people, is beginning to be time to legislate on the subject, hindering its advertising and requiring the payment of additional fees for those who sell these products. Just as is the case with alcohol and tobacco. The cost for the health of the intake of such foods begin to be extremely high, and someone will have to put a brake on this problem.

There is an entire educational task to develop in order to enlighten the people (parents, children, uncles and grandparents) on the power best suited to take. For example, ever notice most parents (grandparents, uncles), as soon as the morning coffee, buy a package of chips and a juice for young children. As you know, it is not only the problem of obesity, but also the greatest risk for other problems appear as cárie dentistry. More nonsense could not do.

Often think that the proper diet does not involve the things that we know better, which is not true. Since it has sufficient knowledge, it is possible to combine a balanced diet. It is more or less what I said about how they should eat the candy to decrease the risk of coming to developing teeth damaged. In this case, it is known that the ingestion of a sweet at the end of the meal is much less harmful than between meals.

So it is not so difficult to trace and try to meet objectives, it is only seeking information is the best way to do it.

MELO PAULO, Medical Dental, Doctor of the Faculty of Dental Medicine of the UP, Member of the board of the Order of Medical Doctors

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