Speaking to Lusa, the president of the Dental Association estimates that 50% of the population is unable to pay a consultation dental facilities. Orlando Monteiro da Silva cited a study by the University of Liverpool, with Portugal to present 'the blackest scenario in Europe in oral health care." The order of the Dental Association also wrote a letter to the Minister of Health advocating the exemption of value-added tax of toothpaste containing fluoride, according to a recommendation from the World Health Organization.
"If the Portuguese population to have passed all access to oral health care, the dentists likely did not arrive," he told Lusa Orlando Monteiro da Silva, president of the Dental Association. And it's largely the fact that there is no offer from the National Health Service (SNS in Portuguese language) at the level of dentistry that is also creating a surplus of these professionals in the country. The Order regrets the "lack of manpower planning."
According to the accounts of the Order, half of them do not have access to oral health. "We estimate that about 50 percent of its population is unable to pay even a dental consultation in private. While there are dentists in health centers or delivery systems, people will be excluded from the oral health."
In Portugal, only the autonomous regions have oral health systems to serve users of the SNS, with 19 dentists in the public health system in the Azores and an agreement between the regional health service of Madeira and the private in the public system partially reimburse the cost of users who use private dentists. The Dental Association also wrote to the Minister of Health to apply for exemption or reduction to five per cent of value added tax in toothpaste with fluoride, which takes a critical asset for the promotion of oral health. The Order is also based on a recommendation from the World Health Organization.
A toothpaste with fluoride bought from a supermarket now costs about two euros, and being free of value added tax, could be at 1.60 euros.
For there is a risk that the multinationals that manufacture toothpaste prices rise to compensate for the loss of value added tax, Orlando Monteiro da Silva says that you must take out public engagements with major manufacturers, as well as monitoring of the competition authority.
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Unfortunately the study does not mention is the family of current and former ministers, legislators, political leaders, judges, businessmen and the like are included in the percentage of Portuguese who are unable to have access to medical oral medicine private.
Basically, everything is political, the day they want, all the Portuguese may have equal rights. Until then, we are one country with two different societies, according to social class to which it belongs.
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