Recife, Brazil - According to a survey conducted by the Coordination of Oral Health of the Prefecture of Recife, the dental care has improved in the last five years. From 2000 to 2005, the number of procedures performed by the city increased from 880,170 to 1,152,664. The analysis is published this week in which they celebrate the National Day of Dental Health and Surgeon-Dentist Day, this Wednesday (25). "The current model of attention to oral health in Recife values the new logic of prevention and health promotion to the detriment of those procedures only curative in nature and / or mutilantes as it was until a few years ago," evaluates the coordinator of the Oral Health Prefecture , Nilcema Figueiredo. According to her, there was a decline in the number of dental extractions of permanent teeth. The percentage dropped from 4.7% in 2000 to 2.6% in 2005. We have specialized procedures, such as the achievement of channels, surgeries and treatment of diseases of the gums, increased from 5.1% to 7.8%.
Currently, the network of dental services in Recife account with 75 units of Family Health (USF), totaling 90 teams of oral health. "Our goal is to expand, gradually, coverage of the teams of oral health, the number of Centers of Dental Specialties, and emergency rooms in order to further improve care for the people recifense," says the director of the Mayor for Health Care of Recife, Tereza Campos.
The model of attention to oral health of the council also has 25 units traditional (the old, health posts), 4 centres of dental specialties (CEO), 3 emergency dental services, 5 clinics and services conveniados the SUS. "The oral health is a significant component of general health, mainly because of the problems oral interfere directly in the pattern of life," examines Nilcema Figueiredo.
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And for us here in Portugal? Who gives statistics? Who by law have evolved as referred by number, the care of oral health in Portugal? Is it that there are numbers?
Gerofil
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