The Order of Dentists Doctors maintains that the program of oral health should cover between 400 and 500 thousand children, but the government provides only reach 80 thousand, which represents only a fifth of the desired. In statements to the agency Lusa in respect of the Doctors Dental Congress that begins Thursday in Lisbon, President Orlando Monteiro da Silva praised the measures recently announced by the Executive to promote the oral health of Portuguese, but requested an extension of the universe of people covered.
The measures were announced earlier this month by the Prime Minister that the Assembly of the Republic reported that "for the first time ever, the National Health Service would include a National Oral Health", which include children, elderly and pregnant.
Regarding children between seven and 12 years, there is now a program, which covers 60 thousand children and that the Government will extend to other 20 thousand. The program consists of three phases: oral health education (which teaches techniques, including brushing the teeth), caries prevention and intervention of medical and dental. This last phase provides medical consultations in two dentists, for which the State paid 75 euros.
"This program should be extended to cover between 400 and 500 thousand children," said the chairman of the Medical Association of Dentists, which also ask the Congress for the Minister of Health to increase the other of the population to support queries for oral health. Besides the children, the new measures go to the elderly and pregnant.
About 90 thousand seniors will benefit from two dental checks per year, while in the case of pregnant, the doctor of the family health center, to identify the pregnancy, in issuing a computer to check that the woman make a dental screening and two for any treatment throughout pregnancy. Dental checks, which can be used in private clinics, will be distributed to 65 thousand pregnant women followed up in health centers.
On Friday, during the Congress of Medical Dental, the Health Minister Correia de Campos, should sign a protocol with the Order to establish these programs. At the same time should be known the amounts allocated to these checks, which have not yet been announced.
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