374. Summary program HEALTH SERVICE oral health (2009-06-16)

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373. Ten tips to keep your smile looking good

Ten tips to keep your smile looking good:

1. Brush your teeth at least two / three times daily, preferably after meals and before retiring;

2. Use a brush of appropriate size, soft and with a small head to prevent injuries to the teeth and gums;

3. Search always use a toothpaste with 1,000 to 1,500 ppm of fluoride (ask your dentist which toothpaste best suited for your teeth);

4. Avoid brushing your teeth only horizontally. Place the toothbrush slightly tilted in the passage by the teeth, so they do not wear over time;

5. Use dental floss daily before brushing to remove food debris and bacteria that exist between spaces and between the teeth and gums;

6. Follows the recommendations of your dentist in the use of elixir for rinsing;

7. Seeks to maintain and clean the teeth, especially along the gum line, preventing plaque and tartar;

8. Makes a regular dental review, preferably of 6 in 6 months, and an oral check-up at least once during the year;

9. Maintain a balanced diet and seeks to replace the candy for more nutritious foods like cheese, fruit and vegetables;

10. If you have sensitive teeth visit a dentist because it may be an indicator of dental caries, tooth fracture.

Professor Escovinha

372. New Frontiers 2009-2013 Forum hosted election promises in the oral health

The health, the topic under discussion in this Forum New Frontiers Wednesday, deserved at the end of assistance from the experts, the participation of Prime Minister Jose Socrates, who praised the National Health Service (SNS in Portuguese). With great emphasis, Socrates spoke in one of the major targets in its next term. This is the voucher program dentist. The socialist leader said he intends to generalize the scope of this program. Currently only affects children under seven, ten and thirteen years, a total of 200 000. Our commitment is to ensure by the end of the legislature access to oral health care for all children and all young people from four to 16 years, said the leader of the PS.

Portugal Diário

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José Socrates promises to ensure the infamous oral health program based on the check-dentist to all children and young people aged between 4 and 16 years old in 2013, ie only for those born between 1997 and 2009. Are thus automatically guaranteed by the current head of government, the removal of the program hundreds of thousands of children and adolescents born before 1997, regardless of any clinical or social origin.

Taking into account the already precarious nature of this program of check-dentist, it becomes clear that not be the continuation of the current health policy advocated by the Socialist Party that the majority of children and young Portuguese will have access to oral healthcare. Thus, the majority of future generation of men and women of our country will continue beyond any possibility of access to oral health care in our country.

Now that Jose Socrates has put pen to paper on what will remain the case for oral health policy continues to be Prime Minister, the question remains: is it worth to vote in the Socialist Party in the forthcoming elections? You may not have interest in the subject but will we sacrifice more nearly an entire generation, spending tens of billions of euros in investments very doubtful for the improvement of living at the same time it will deny access most children and young people to oral health care?

Think before you vote.

371. In Portugal, the offenders have better oral health care to people without entries

It should be noted that, although this does not happen in other fields, the prison system today, provides stronger support to prisoners that the relevant national health service free to the public, particularly when it comes to dental care.

Provedoria da Justiça

370. Minister promises free dentistry for children

In due time I asked the political parties represented in parliament who did get to ORAL HEALTH proposals on oral health in their programs contemplated for the next term. So far only the CDS-PP had the courtesy to respond to the request, which can be read by typing here.

Thus, taking all knowledge of the absurd policy of discrimination that continues to be promoted by the current Ministry of Health, the government assigned the PS in the field of oral health, dividing between the Portuguese first (very few and mostly those who have money) and Portuguese second (the vast majority of the population and the largest contributor to taxes), it is worth remembering other political party by other forces when they were in power.

Below is the promise of the then Health Minister Luis Filipe Pereira, assigned to the government of the PSD / CDS in 2004, promising free consultations for all children and adolescents up to 18 years, beyond the promise of the feasibility of oral health in the National Service Health (promises that were much, much more that we currently have the government and implemented by the Socialist Party in the last months of his term).

However I am awaiting the proposals of other political parties.

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Minister promises free dentistry for children

The health minister pledged yesterday to implement, as soon as next year, two free dental consultation for all citizens up to 18 years. The promise was made at a meeting with the president of Dental Association (OMD), Orlando Monteiro, who admitted curious considering the story go "so suddenly."

According to Orlando Monteiro, Luís Filipe Pereira have on hand a national oral health plan designed by the Directorate General of Health (DGS), which provides for consultations "in private offices, through a kind of convention in the state" will pay 37.5 euros "for each examination. Already with budget (which Luis Filipe Pereira declined to advance the OMD), the initiative starts in 2005 and should be implemented "gradually" under joint supervision of the DGS and the OMD.

Shyer seems intent of the Minister to begin to monetize the dental equipment out there, standing at the Department of Health Naconal was agreed that it would work to open the frozen waves of a few hospitals - too few - and then study the feasibility of the introduction of oral health in the National Health Service (SNS), Orlando Monteiro said, adding that Luis Filipe Pereira emphasized that would not open too many expectations to the people, not to open a floodgate that would become unmanageable in terms of cost. The idea seems to be doing pilot projects in health centers already equipped only for certain treatment and appropriate user fees. But it has no starting date.

The president of the OMD took the audience to denounce the imposition of free services to dentists by health insurance and the agreements with the social security system of public administration (ADSE), whose values do not even cover the cost of materials and illegal situations motivate overcharging. The minister referred the matter to the Ministry of Finance, the Competition Authority and Regulatory Authority of Health.

November 20, 2004

Jornal de Notícias

369. Websites of candidates for president of the Portuguese Dental Association

http://www.omd-pelosmedicosdentistas.com/index.php
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http://www.umaordemportodos.com.pt/index.html

368. The most toothless smile in Europe

Portugal has the most toothless smile in Europe! How? Why?
First of all, the problem is cultural and educational. There has never been a program of dental education in the country. For Example, "Between a top model cell phone and a healthy smile people prefer the phone!" Even Public figures, with no financial problems, appear on TV with smiles full of holes, because most of the people think oral health is not a priority!Second, the public health system has no dental care whatsoever. The oral health of the Portuguese depends on the private sector. Not surprisingly, many people never go to the dentist until it is too late, when pain is not more bearable!
Third, the situation is even more serious when we consider that millions of Portuguese do not have access to dental care. For lack of buying power (a visit costs between 30 and 75 euros). The problem is especially serious among the old, with one half of senior citizens in Portugal not having one tooth in their mouth! The pensions are so low that they don't cover the high expenses of dentistry.
The lack of teeth results in problems of a psychiatric nature, such as isolation and shame. All in all, not a pretty picture.The problem though is not a shortage of dentists. In a region where almost no dentists even existed twenty years ago, there are now enough to attend to the population. All of them are private and not cheap. The seven Portuguese dental schools (three public and four private) now turn out about five hundred graduates in Dental Medicine.
In a few years the growth in the area will be out of control and this will bring serious problems. Of the 4,500 dentists registered in the Order of Medical Dentists (OMD), 20% are foreigners (from 34 nationalities).
The government also allows non-qualified dentists to operate legally. In a controversial decision the National Assembly passed a law legalizing all the dentists without diplomas (called "mechanics") to carry on their practice, with the dubious obligation to do a certain number of courses in a determined number of years. No one thinks that these so called dentists will ever do any courses. Many of them are semi-illiterate and some are too old to set foot in a classroom. Not surprisingly, the population with fewer financial means prefers these ? dentists? because they are cheaper.
The OMD says that in Portugal there are "hundreds of illegal dental clinics." The denunciation of this "shameless situation that occurs in Dentistry, without any control?, comes from Orlando Monteiro da Silva, president of the organization. He states that public health is at risk from the possible transmission of communicable diseases, like Aids and hepatitus, by way of blood and saliva. Furthermore, there is illegal competition for professionals who are already facing the shadow of unemployment.
Recently, the Assembly of the Republic approved a law, readied by the parliamentary group of the Democratic Social Party (PSD) , that will give to the order, powers to inspect and to combat the false dentists, who proliferate all over the country, with particular prominence in the outskirts of Lisbon.
The present law was the only way to change the Order statutes, which now give the Order power to intervening in the combat against the shamless situation that is taking place in Portuguese dentistry, where hundreds of individuals practice with no academic training whatsoever.
With this change in the law, the OMD doesn`t hesitate to "call the police" and "order the closing of clinics that operate illegally?. In addition to the Doctors in Dentistry, who are graduates of the schools of Dental Medicine, there are about 600 "Odontologistas", recognized by the National Association of Portuguese Dentists (ANDEP). Some of these dentists are Brazilians (university graduates and others are graduates of recent courses in Portugal, while others have no diploma whatsoever).
Special recognition was given to these professionals in order to preserve acquired rights. Hundreds of candidates were left out, and despite being excluded by the ANDEP, continue to practice dentistry. These are the targets to be hit. The argument of the OMD, besides the obvious illegal competition, relies on aspects of public health, like improper sterilization of material. Patients visiting these "dentists" put their health at risk!
The European Commission has instituted a suit against Portugal in the Justice Court of the European Communities, because it considers that the legislation regulating the profession of dentist violates the community directives on Dental Medicine. For the Commission, which is acting after a complaint from the OMD, the profession of ?Odontologista?, as it is defined in Portuguese legislation, has a "field of activity almost identical" to that of the graduates of the schools of Medicine and Dental Medicine. Odontology appears as an "alternative and competing" profession with that of dentist, when its professionals do not have the qualifications foreseen in European directives.
The OMD contested Law 4/99, which has already been repealed, but has still not been able to hinder the "odontologistas", who have been awarded professional documents, even some who have any university training.It is thus that the smile of the Portuguese goes!
André Almeida, Dental Student of Health Sciences Faculty of Fernando Pessoa UniversityQue dois

367. Minister says that poor access to dentists is not unique to Portugal

Health Minister, Ana Jorge points, in statements to the TSF, the majority of the elderly, pregnant women and children already have access to dental checks, but justifies the difficulty that remains in people's access to this specialty is not a problem Portugal.

Speaking to the TSF, the Minister Ana Jorge, recalled that most of the elderly, pregnant women and children already have dental checks and noted that the difficulty in access to dentists is a problem that also arises in more developed countries of Europe.

It is not a problem that is unique to Portugal. We are worried about it so that one concern was to try to extend progressively the population oral health care, he said.

TSF

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Everyone knows full well that about 90% of the population was denied access to dentists check that in the case of children only serve to be treated at certain ages and not when you really need. More: the overwhelming majority of dentists who are part of the program do it on most often for charity, losing money against the ridiculous prices of dental checks.

Concerning the comparison with other countries, not with the evil of others that the Portuguese will live better.

The form of demagogic behavior of the government now intends to publish the opinion already discredited program of oral health, often aided by the media more or less nationalized, it will not be shown with the current rulers that oral health will reach over 90 % of its population while continuing to be almost exclusive to the bourgeoisie.

366. Candidate for Chairman of the Order of Dentists

Candidate for Chairman of the Order of Dentists in Viseu - Chairman of the candidate Dental Association, Fernando Guerra, was in the city of Viseu to present the guidelines of your application, listening yet the problems they face every day the doctors dentists in the region. Fernando Guerra said that the main purpose of this application goes through the revitalization of the institution that is the Order of Dentists.

We want to introduce an innovative speech find different proposals and concrete so they can be found solutions to several problems that persist in persist, he explained. The assistant professor, School of Medicine, University of Coimbra believes he represents a clear alternative to the direction that the Order has had.

We try to give new energy, innovative solutions to instill clearly that the order to rebalance the profession of dentist, he said. A little over six months of the elections, the candidate has been touring the country in order to share experiences, listen to colleagues, reconnect the policies that intend to introduce the Order of Dentists to dentists.

Dentists have responded in a positive way to this challenge, these meetings have presented their points of view, shared their experiences, called attention to the many things they face in their day to day, he said. Between the lines of force, presented the need to redirect the Order of Dentists to professional issues, also extending the involvement of dentists in society, proposing a plan for rational and integrated oral health.

We find that funds that are available to Oral Health in Portugal need to be streamlined, have dentists on the ground to implement the strategies of oral health. Dentists should integrate the National Health and they should be the protagonists of the strategies that unfold in this area, he argued. Regrets that so far this has not happened. Therefore, we put forward concrete proposals, including the creation of a National Emergency in oral health and the integration of dentists in the nuclear school health teams, in addition to the award of a report of oral health to newborns and children's garden childhood and the first cycle.

Fernando Alberto Guerra is licensed by the Faculty of Medicine of Coimbra (1993), completed the Masters in October 1997 and conducted tests Aggregation in July 2008. Is assistant professor, School of Medicine, University of Coimbra since January 6, 2004 and the principal investigator or co-authored research projects with national and international head of the Laboratory of Histology Tissue Oral Cavity Department of Dental Medicine. Fernando Guerra ended in March, the duties of dean of the University of Coimbra, to apply to the Order of Dentists.

Notícias de Viseu

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The Chairman of dentists has renominated this Saturday - Yielding to the call of the class, the president of Dental Association, Orlando Monteiro da Silva, will re-apply for the post, with proposals such as extending the voucher to the dentist. The Chairman of the Dental Association has revealed that this Saturday, his candidacy for the post and that will, among other things, the extension of dental checks for children of ages that has not been contemplated, as well as diabetics.

Monteiro da Silva indicates that its proposals concern the mandatory insertion of dental medicine in the work and input of doctors, dentists in public hospitals over a career of her own. Two other proposals also appear in the table, such as recruitment of physicians in this specialty by the Family Health Unit and the creation of a national system of reimbursement for basic dental health care for all users of the National Health Service (SNS in Portuguese).

According to Lusa, the current Chairman of the Order of Dentists yields to the call of the various professional specialties who claimed the nomination and convinced him to continue the ongoing measures. Although in recent years much has changed in dentistry in Portugal and oral health, Monteiro da Silva points out that there is still a very large range of people without access to care in this specialty.

Fábrica de Conteúdos

365. Four types of foods that make you smile

66% of Portuguese already had at least one cavity and the vast majority avoids visits to the dentist, or by costs or by sheer terror! Admittedly, the oral health involves the daily oral hygiene, but also look to what we eat.

Learn about good foods for your teeth:

• Dairy products (semi-skimmed milk, yoghurt and cheese) - Calcium is an essential element for the formation of teeth and bones. A diet rich in calcium protects the teeth and jaws. A diet low in calcium unprotects jaw, loose teeth and exposes them to attack by bacteria.
• Pears - The raw fruits (not acidic), rich in water, stimulate salivation, lower the pH of the mouth and jaw exercise. At the same time it made a natural cleaning the gums.
• Black tea - Recent research shows that black tea (pH neutral) contains compounds that attack bacteria that cause cavities and gum disease. However one should not add sugar to tea.
• Whole foods - whole foods have high levels of vitamin D and iron, essential for healthy gums. They also contain magnesium, an important constituent of bones and teeth.

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Source: Clínica Dentária Dentisaúde