The Order of Doctors Dentists today expressed the hope that the government create a system of private agreement with the treatments of oral health to patients of the National Health. Tuesday in Parliament, the Health Minister Correia de Campos, who took the National Health Service (NHS) failure in the provision of dental care, and promised to announce measures during the debate in the state budget for 2008.
The president of Medical Dental, Orlando Monteiro da Silva, Correia da Campos has since July a report by a group of specialists from various areas with proposed measures to improve health services in relation to oral health. "The proposal that most concerns people is to establish a system of agreement with dentists and dental clinics for NHS patients, including more specific to certain sectors of the population," said the Lusa Orlando Monteiro da Silva. Dental fillings, extraction of teeth and devitalization, rehabilitation and cleaning of removable dentures are the areas that the Order of Dentists considers to be included in a package of oral health such.
"We see these measures announced very soon," said the president, who welcomed the recognition of the Ministry of Health that oral health is an area that has been systematically neglected. " According to the 2001 National Health Center, nearly four in ten older people in Portugal have lost all their teeth, given that the Association believes are still undervalued in relation to reality.
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