97) About the transfer of powers to local authorities

Cuiaba (Brazil) - The dental care of the municipal public health network of Cuiaba was recently visited by a team of the city of Campo Grande (MS) that operates in that sector and said if satisfied with the work done in the Capital, according to the advice of press. "We like much of what we have seen," said the coordinator of Oral Health of the municipality of Campo Grande, Gilmar Trevizan.

From January to October this year were 236,963 procedures performed in the 10 dental clinics maintained by the city of Cuiaba. Besides the simplest procedures, treatments are made of channel, gums, dental prostheses and treatment of children, with all resources of the municipality. The federal government sends a monthly budget of only $ 1 per head of population for dental treatment. With this feature can be made only to prevention (cleaning and fluoride application) and extraction.

But the city is far beyond the basic treatment. Since January this year, already made more than two thousand of treatments channel, six thousand treatment of gums and 1.6 thousand prostheses were implanted. In the same period, 15,160 people completed the dental treatment, with all procedures (channel, prostheses and surgeries) included. The simplest treatments, which in private enterprise do not leave for less than 350 real, lasting from five to ten sessions. The treatments with channel and prosthesis can reach 3 thousand reais in private clinics, with the same material used by the municipal clinics. And the end result has great influence in social life of the patient.

"When the person arrives at the clinic, she is timid, often puts his hand in the mouth to smile. She is intelligent, friendly, but that with damaged teeth have difficulty in getting jobs, finding girlfriend or boyfriend, so it a very low self-esteem, "reports the coordinator of Oral Health of the Municipal Secretary of Health and Master of Public Health, Sílvia Lídia Siqueira.

Diário de Cuiabá

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Example of application of public money in safeguarding the health of the population. This is what is urgently put in place also in our country.

Gerofil