164) Non-governmental organization recruits volunteers to meet the dentists children

The dental program of the good, the Civil Society Organization of Public Interest (OSCIP) Class of Well, will start to meet children of Bauru and Lençois Paulista. For this reason, dentists are recruiting volunteers.

Currently, four professionals from the region are part of the project, which already exists across the country. The surgeon-dentist Elizandra Paccola Moretto, coordinator of the project, explains that children from 5th to 8th grades of the public school system will pass through a screening and then commence free treatment from the experts volunteers. Shares in Bauru still depend on approval from the mayor, but the expectation is that once the evaluations begin. In Lençois Paulista, sorting also begin soon. Moretto explains that children are sent to private offices of dentists and dental treatment will receive the necessary. To increase the capacity to care, she hopes that experts be included in the project. Every dentist may take the number of children who have interest. The sorting of children will be made by Moretto.

Priorities are taken into account as pain, cavities and extraction of teeth. Although no start date set for the care, the program keeps professionals registered in the region since 2002. "Although there was a regional coordinator," says Moretto. She met the project earlier this year when part of an international conference. "I went to the stand of the program and get interested in the project. So, I was invited to participate" recalls.

The dentists interested in participating in the program DENTISTA DO BEM can obtain information on the site www.turmadobem.org.br or by telephone (14) 3226-2331, (14) 9714-3189.

Jornal da Cidade de Barau
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Well, there are people to afford the good of children. That in Portugal there are also those who look for the needy and that the state takes its obligation to protect those who can not find answers in the treatment of existing institutions. The oral health must be understood as a right of first necessity and not as an economic activity for only the more affluent social classes by the system.

Gerofil