356. Dental check: How to pass the praise to disappointment ... Shame!

José Socrates delivered the first

dental checks for children

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José Socrates considered the "dentist check" which will cover 200,000 children, as a good example of "strategic cooperation" between private and public admitted to extend this experience to other areas of the National Health Service.

The prime minister has attended a meeting in the grouping of schools Nuno Gonçalves, Penha de France, in Lisbon, after having delivered the first dental checks for students with seven, ten and thirteen years, and highlighted as key features of the program free choice of provider, ensuring fairness and absence of waiting lists. According to Jose Socrates, with the start of the assignment of the first dentist checks for young students, the National Health Service gave a very important step:

- Elsewhere in the developed world, is a challenge for the National Health Services the question of hygiene and oral healthcare. The National Health Service began to fulfill its mission with regard to oral health for society when the Portuguese Government has decided for the allocation of dental checks for specific target audiences such as youth, elderly and pregnant women.

The prime minister also said that the goal of government is mobilizing structures and resources already existing in the country in the area of oral health in the service of the National Health Service. Therefore, the Government refused to create more than one service within the National Health Service, which is an alternative to the private system, before deciding to use the system to the private services of public objectives.

We want everyone, regardless of economic status, have access to dentistry. Families who are enrolled in this program with complete autonomy to choose which dentist to go. And choose without having to wait for the next year or in three or four months, because this system ensures access to a dentist with no waiting list, stressed José Sócrates.

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Delays in payments away from dentists

dental checks

Again the first compliment that reality comes later; for those who are not minimally aware, it is good to start thinking about the good intentions of leaders we have. After all, when the work first and then the praise?