163) National Association of Dental Technicians of Angola (ANTEA)

The National Association of Dental Technicians of Angola (ANTEA) will hold the 1st National Congress on "Dental Medicine in the country" during the days 20 and 21 July this year. The event is in line with the continuous training of technicians, dental, in collaboration with the Order of Doctors Dentists Portugal.

The information was made recently in Luanda, the vice president of Antea, Avelino Cachilandala at the end of the lecture on "the importance of oral health buco and the prevention of diseases of the mouth" at the seminar of "Training of trainers of community agents "that runs on the premises of the Pediatric Hospital of Luanda. When Congress participate physicians, specialists in dentistry, nurses, technicians, diagnostics, and businesses, the distribution of medicines.

According Avelino Cachilandala the dental situation in the country because it is controlled in all provinces Antea has the technical and in collaboration with the Ministry of Health have developed training and actions of the campaign on dental health. The specialist said that oral hygiene is the implementation of a series of activities, using different elements to remove the waste of food, among other plaque from tooth surfaces, gums, tongue and mucous. For good dental health, Avelino Cachilandala recommended a good diet with fruits like banana, papaya, apple, other foods such as cereals, meat, fish, plants, vegetables, bread, cheese, milk and yogurt, which are rich in calcium, vitamin A and help care for and strengthen the teeth.

As for individual brush, the specialist advises the public to be replaced every three months and replace if it is used very much. "After using the brush, wash it with water and shake itself to be saved. You should avoid eating fresh for many citizens are not getting cavities or gengivites, "wrapped up.

A cavity, according Cachilandala Avelino, and is an infectious disease. It happens when there is the association between plaque cariogenic (a kind of film composed of bacteria live and food waste that would be deposited on and between teeth), inadequate diet and poor hygiene.

"When the sugar comes into contact with the plaque, made up acids that are responsible for removal of minerals from tooth", he stressed.

Jornal de Angola

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Let's see if the OMD is also due to efforts to look into and solve the serious problems of oral health that affect much of the population of Portugal.

Gerofil

162) Portugal in the last

The nearly six thousand dentists (5056 members are enrolled in Portuguese Dental Association) in Portugal would be enough for everyone to the Portuguese received the necessary care in dentistry. However, it is not what happens. And Portugal presents itself as the last of the European Union countries on health care at this level, about the second paragraphs of the order, 40 percent of the population does not receive the care they need.

And given this reality we can only lament the specialists Portuguese. And try to explain. The clarification - they say - based on the lack of dentists in the National Health Service and the weak economic resources of most Portuguese. Also the lack of information is often behind the mouths of the Portuguese badly treated, reminded the President of the Portuguese Dental Association (ODM) and - strengthened - "the lack of mechanisms facilitating access to Dental Medicine." And in this field, which includes elderly, the disabled or inherited diseases and infection of the forum, in need of care (even more) special.

For all this and more, particularly because "there is no health in general without oral health" is necessary that this specialty is introduced in the National Health.

When we refer to prices more or less stable throughout the country and from office to office - the order ensures that there are no tables or conciliation of prices, up by prohibition of the Competition Authority - as inhibitors of access services to a large part of Portuguese, Orlando Monteiro, Chairman, and Paulo Melo, medical and dental professor at the School of Dental Medicine of the University, are unanimous. "The prices only reflect the high costs imposed by the specificities of the consultation." And the chairman of the MDGs pointed out that the consultations this specialty are paid in full by the user, to give a real sense of values. On the contrary - argued - "the other specialties are offered by the state, paid by taxpayers through the tax, then, the burden is so diluted and mitigate."

Also the expert Paulo Melo acknowledged that "people of lower economic resources will not be able to go to a private consultation", but sent the justification for the failure of prices in this specialty in that direction was given by Orlando Monteiro: the costs involved in a Consultation of dentistry are high and that could easily fall. "The solution lies in an open access to consultation within the NHS to the poorest people," reinforced the specialist, whose numbers that made for those who can not be seen by a doctor dentist is close to 60 percent.

The lack of expertise in the management of Public Service, in addition to depriving a large number of Portuguese people from accessing "the constitutionally enshrined fundamental right, namely the right to health", led to the elimination of, because at the time, inadequate services the level of oral health. And the expert Paulo Melo gave his vision of what is happening. "Portugal must be of the few European countries that do not have a department of oral health in the Ministry of Health", so there is no national strategy at this level. " And reminded the process for the withdrawal of those services in health centers.

What exists in these structures were stomatologists health (people with the stroke of Medicine who made a specialization in Stomatology), but the current European legislation does not address the formation of this group of professionals, they will be endangered and ceased to be in health centers. "What would be normal" was the replacement of those dentists by doctors, but there is the career of these specialists in Civil Service, it seems obvious situation could not be achieved, leading to the cessation of oral health in the public sector.

Paulo Melo, who made the trip by the time to explain the purpose of the consultations in public service, referred to the still topical. And this shows that there are few health centers that rely on doctors and dentists when this happens is himself before hiring outside the ranks of the Civil Service.

In addition to the above reasons for which the Portuguese have 'mouths ugly, you can not pass along the news that from time to time give account of the illegality of around the sector. Generally, the unlawful actions based on lack of qualifications or inadequate qualifications of people who act as a dentist. The reported cases are awaiting response from the courts, which are often "poor", up by delays in resolving cases, pointed Orlando Monteiro. It is not easy (as in any other area) for the common user understand who are the real or those who are going through this.

Against this uncertainty, the chairman of the ODM advises the patient to seek professional certificate to whom it is providing the treatment. Or alternatively try out to the order if the doctor dentist is registered and has the appropriate qualifications to carry on or not, the treatment to which it proposes. This information can be obtained by phone or the Web site http://www.omd.pt/.

O Primeiro de Janeiro

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The radiograph of the situation is made; only lack the political will to resolve the situation.

Gerofil

161) IV Meeting of Oral Health of the Azores with the support of Executive Azores

The Regional Secretariat for Social Affairs will support the implementation of the Fourth Meeting of Oral Health of the Azores which will run from 26 to 28 this month, in the valley of Furnas, in San Miguel. The meeting, organized by the Center for Health of Povoação and accredited by the Portuguese Dental Association, aims to promote oral health among the population Azores, and especially of the school community.

This initiative, a biennial, national and regional professional part of Dental Medicine that will outline goals and strategies for continuity of work for the promotion of Oral Health. In addition to its scientific and social, the event aims to be the corollary of the work of prevention in the area of Oral Health that has developed over the past 10 years in primary schools of the Autonomous Region.

Alongside the conference which will take place for Medical and Dental Assistants in Clinical Dentistry, some activities are planned for the general public, including a session for children on the 26th, by 10 hours in the Povoação, and conferences on Oral Health for the population in general, on the morning of 28, in Terra Nostra Garden Hotel in Furnas.

Governo Regional dos Açores

160) In the Azores - About 18 thousand children with bulletin Oral Health

Introductory note: This post I want to be the public knowledge of Minister of Health and members of the Assembly of the Republic in the current legislatur.

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About 18 thousand children already have the Azores Bulletin Single Oral Health, a document unprecedented in the country which has all the information and medical history, announced today source connected to the project. The regional coordinator of the Program of Oral Health Promotion, Ricardo Cabral, said the agency Lusa that the project, which started in 2006, is taking place in a "positive" and already covers the nine islands of the Azores.

According to the doctor explained dentist, the bulletin is aimed at children and young people up to 18 years and can be requested free of charge in the 16 health centers in the region. "The aim in future is that the whole population may have a individual form of oral health, "said the expert, who represents the Azores in the National Program of Oral Health. With the creation of this document, the executive wanted to give the Azores Regional Health Service (SRS) of a tool for registration and consultation for health promotion and prevention of oral diseases in the islands.

For Ricardo Cabral, this document represents a further contribution to the oral health of Azorean, which together with other public awareness and information already held, has allowed the public awareness. The doctor dentist said that, although slow, the results of this study have emerged, pointing to the example of the rates of tooth decay in children Azores, which in 2000 stood at 4.5 percent and in 2005, rose to 2 , 1 percent.

Citing the findings of the latest survey of oral health conducted in the archipelago, Ricardo Cabral said that between 2000 and 2005, there was a "gain in health" at the level of real rates of tooth decay among children from 2.4 percent. As for the percentage of children free of caries at age six, the region fell from 30.8 percent in 2000 to 37.3 percent in 2005, and the World Health Organization recommends that in 2020, is reached the 80 per cent, he said.

The president of the Delegation of the Azorean Portuguese Dental Association, Arthur Lima, the Bulletin of Single Oral Health is an "important contribution" to health promotion, although alert to difficulties in implementing the project on the island of Faial. Arthur Lima said the Lusa that, in Faial, no dental practitioners in the public sector, so the distribution of newsletters have been done by teams of nursing. "The six medical dentists who work in Faial exercise all private clinic because the government Regional never opened vacancies for the civil service, "said Arthur Lima.

In the Azores carrying 74 dental professionals, covering all islands in the archipelago. Contacted by Lusa, the Regional Director of Health, Teresa Brito, said that the situation of Faial is unresolved, not a lack of will of guardianship, but due to issues with legal. "The hiring of employees required to unfreeze the first waves and the holding of a public tender," said Teresa Brito, for whom "the solution to this gap will reach the short term." According said, the legal proceedings "are not compatible" with the urgency of the situation, but underlines that the Azores government has done "a gradual work" to provide all health centers with new equipment and materials essential to the practice of dentistry.

Around hundred and half of doctors participating dentists at the end of the month, at a meeting on oral health in San Miguel Island, which will also serve to a free screening the population, said the source organization. The Fourth Meeting of Oral Health of the Azores runs from 26 to April 28 at the county's village, showed Ricardo Cabral, for whom the event will facilitate discussion and exchange experiences among the professionals associated with the oral health of the entire country. The program, beginning the April 26, is an act of free screening for the population, which will take place in the flag of the town's sports village.

ViaOceânica

159) The complete absurdity of the current policy of oral health in Portugal

In Portugal there are seven faculties of Medicine and Dentistry are being trained doctors in excess numbers, moving up - warned the president of the OMD - for "unemployment". The warning from Orlando Monteiro had the intention to reinforce the need for "political intervention".

The president noted, moreover, that "there are already more than 140 dentists Portuguese to exercise the function in the NHS from other European countries [England and Holland, for example]." As in the rest of the European Union there is this specialty in public health service and present shortage of dentists. The explanation of the relocation is not a free choice, but an alternative to economic difficulties that prevent these professionals to open their own clinics (only chance to practice in Portugal).

Again, the situation would minimize the introduction of specialty in public service.

O Primeiro de Janeiro

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Black and white: it is wide spend thousands and thousands of euros of our taxes to train specialists who treat patients go abroad, where it is denied by our assistance to the NHS wide hundreds of thousands of children, young and old Portuguese for something like bread for the mouth.

Indeed, urges change whatever it is to put the final point in the trivialization of the person who runs practiced by the state.

Gerofil

158) Ministry of Health without department of oral health. The consequences to life.

"Portugal must be of the few European countries that do not have a department of oral health in the Ministry of Health." The observation of the doctor dentist Paulo Melo shows has also been a challenge. And the consequence of that statement is the absence of a national strategy for the oral health of the Portuguese.

The national policy - also continued the professor in the School of Dental Medicine, University of Porto - "never bother with the oral health of the Portuguese and never had the desire to go replacing the stomatologists that would be reforming for dental practitioners in health centers ". More a situation that has consequences and they "are there for all to see."

It would not be necessary to OECD (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development) said that Portugal is in the tail of Europe at this level, because "those who walk in the street can realize the number of people without teeth." This is a undeniable reality, representing "an embarrassment, that politicians insist on ignoring."

Paulo Melo regrets a situation that - guarantees - "is not only worse by Portugal have the best dental practitioners in Europe."

"Embarrassing" is also the adjective used by the president of the Portuguese Dental Association (OMD), who, describing himself as "naive", is to be deposited in hopes of Oral Health Commission that the current government has established to assess the situation. At the end of May should be known conclusions.

Orlando Monteiro did not hide it expects "the conclusions are the obvious ...." And the obvious is the poor state of the mouths of Portuguese and need for the creation of means of access to consultations under the National Health Service, the poorest people. This public access to oral health is a battle of former OMD, which the president has given voice and which is striving. For now - though skeptical about the commissions in general - expected to see. But not for nothing.

And, drawing on the restructuring of health services, Orlando Monteiro has tried, particularly in the health units for the family (USF), responsible for raising the awareness of the need for this specialty be introduced in health centers and hospitals. This indicates responsible criticism, but also makes proposals. For example, Orlando Monteiro does not consider how best to open dental clinics in all health centers in the country at large investment that implies, advocates the creation of conventions and protocols between those establishments and private offices that exist within the geographical area which include the establishment, "taking advantage of that investment in infrastructure has been done by the private sector."

Recognizing that the Health Minister Correia de Campos, has shown "sensitivity in this area and will at least consider what might be done," the president of doctors dentists expected to be passed to practice the goodwill that has been demonstrated. And if that strengthened the National Health Plan is fulfilled, then by 2010 the hospitals must be equipped with this expertise, to respond to emergencies and emergencies that can not currently be treated. In situations of accident there is no response in emergencies.

In case of emergency be for the pain - "one of the strongest that the human body feels," pointed out - "at best is prescribed a painkiller." The expert is to ask point-blank: "We must act politically." And knowing that "it is impossible that everyone has everything, it is essential to do everything possible so that everyone has the best possible".

And, despite being short of the needs of society, the creation of a program of prevention and treatment, aimed at children from three to 16 years has been seen as positive by the president: "Despite still inaccessible to most children," even within this age group.

Even though for most people can be difficult to understand or even indifferent, the expert Paulo Melo wanted to separate the wheat from the chaff and highlighted the differences between various types of professionals who treat oral cavity of the Portuguese.

"There are three," he said. The stomatologists, trained in medicine, specializing in Stomatology and scope only differs from doctor dentist in access to the areas neighboring the oral cavity, where the can Stomatologist act. Doctors dentists with a course of six years (soon reduced to five seconds Bologna), have during the early years of medicine and general concepts of late training following a path itself. Its scope for action is broad, but includes only those structures that relate to the oral cavity.

There are also the dentist, who "have long exercised the function illegally, many had not even the basic training," and who have since been legalized by the Portuguese after they were given a few hours of training. Its scope for action is very narrow and is unable to perform more complex surgeries, prostheses and orthodontic fixed.

To complicate all this, the doctor assured dentist and lecturer at the Faculty of Dental Medicine, University of Porto, "the terminology adopted in various countries differ from ours, so that European professionals with the same name are the formations and areas of action completely different" . Paulo Melo also noted a fourth class of professionals who are the oral hygienists, more oriented to prevention "and should exercise the profession supervise by a medical doctor or dentist."

O Primeiro de Janeiro

157) ERS requires clinics that says the fees are illegal

The chairman of the Portuguese Dental Association classifies as' at least strange "and causing of" great indignation "the accusations made by the Health Regulatory Authority (ERS) according to which the majority of private health units (83%) are not licensed. This is because the ERS has been charged since the start of last year, mandatory fees to all of them.

In statements published in yesterday's edition of the Diário de Notícias, Orlando Monteiro da Silva says agree with the diagnosis outlined in the ERS report, but noted also that this is because, "even for those who wish fervently to complete the sacred way of licensing, the task it is practically impossible. " Acknowledging that there is no practice of dentistry degree in Portugal, the president criticizes, however, the ERS by drawing this situation without ever having made part of its responsibility in monitoring the functioning of the units.

"The case of the books of complaints from users is an example. The experience I have is that they go to the ERS and this is limited to distribute the cases to other organisms, 'says Monteiro da Silva.

Also the chairman of the Order of Physicians, Pedro Nunes, desfere criticism of ERS, the question: "The millions that the health units used to pay the ERS to make reports to conclude what everybody else knows for years?". Pedro Nunes denounces the fact that, while pointing the problems, the ERS does not move a "consistent solution" to deal with them, despite knowing for years that the law on licensing is not appropriate to the reality and "unlawful render all hospitals public, including St. Maria or St. Jose 'case should apply to units of the National Health Service.

Diário dos Açores (March 23, 2007)

156) 19 thousand students in the municipal network receive kit with brush and paste

Bauru (BRAZIL) - About 19 thousand students of the municipal system of education in Bauru, the nursery to primary education, are receiving education kit, containing oral door-brush, tooth brush and paste. The city invested U.S. $ 50 thousand in purchase of 23 thousand kits and even heaven puppet, macro models, books and educational slides that are being used in the activities of the Smile Bauru.

The program was restructured and, in this new phase, the dentists and dental assistants, are making visits to local schools. They hold lectures for students and teachers emphasizing the importance of oral health care with and teaching the correct brushing.

Yesterday, the municipal secretaries of Health, Mario Ramos, and Education, Ana Maria Daibem, participated in a visiting team's Smile program to Bauru Emei Maria Helena Amantini in Nucleus Green Gold. The Municipal Department of Health has three educational programs. Alongside them, and in addition to the dental clinics in schools, the city also offers free care to the population. Besides the Center for Dental Specialties (CEO), inaugurated at the University of the Sacred Heart (USC) last month, Aja has units in the dental office of health and Mobile Office. In 2006 were conducted 81,177 in dental care in the municipal system of health.

Jornal da Cidade de Bauru

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On the contrary, we all right here! While this remains general anesthesia society, there remains a continuing inertia and lack of efficiency of the competent authorities in relation to a policy of oral health for the entire population, this is, basically, always forgotten and doomed to the fate that has.

Unfortunately, both governments, parliaments and associations of professionals linked to oral health sector have complete and total responsibility for what has occurred over the last twenty years in Portugal - infest the public opinion on the facts but never been interested in solving the real problems of Oral health in our country.

I do not understand spending a few crumbs here and there, showing generosity by a handful of unfortunate people in life, then when there are thousands of millions to invest in treatment costs and completely avoidable, for the benefit and income from it is known there for whoever ...

Here's how it is the policy of oral health in Portugal.

Gerofil