Brazil (Federal District) - Governor Jose Roberto Arruda launches this Friday at the Recanto das Emas, the Dental School, which will offer daily dental care to public school students. Starting today, the project will run in ten schools, but the goal put it to 334 000 primary school students.
Early as next week, starting to get schools to elementary school teaching materials for the development of oral health education. This material will be distributed to teachers and 334 000 students from elementary.
Last week a training was conducted with the heads of the Center for Monitoring Educational and Pedagogical Supervisors of all the Regional Education, to present papers and guidance on how to insert it into the day-to-day student. However, each teacher, depending on their individual experience, you can use the material as a route to the gradual introduction of the theme.
The elementary school teachers work on this theme oral health in a comprehensive and interdisciplinary over the first nine years of schooling.
Schools with more than 1,000 students have fixed offices. In the minors, including those from rural areas, students will be served by mobile units contracted by the Department of Health - trucks with three to four dental chairs and an X-ray machine each.
The services offered will include restorations in permanent teeth and milk, pit and fissure sealant, removal and / or pain relief, removal of foci of infection, periodontics, minor surgeries and fluoride application.
Prevention and Cure - The project, a partnership between the Departments of Education and Health, will have two fronts: a curative and a preventive and educational.
The healing portion will be held in the offices, fixed or mobile, where the service will be performed by dentists and oral health technicians gazetted the framework of the Departments of Health and Education. The educational and preventive part will be performed by these same professionals through lectures, workshops, oral hygiene orientation and toothbrushing unsupervised.
The professionals who will work in clinics in schools must reserve fixed during the five days of the week, a period in the morning and another in the afternoon to devote to oral hygiene care and achievement of students unsupervised brushing.
Actions will also take place education and prevention in oral health, which will be made to oral hygiene care and delivered an oral hygiene kit, at least three times a year to all elementary school students. This kit consists of oral hygiene toothbrush, floss, toothpaste big, fluoride, fluoride toothpaste and developer of plaque - suitable for brushing the night, an item that allows the student to identify himself if brushing is well made and correct it if necessary.
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In Brazil, the oral health programs for young people go where it takes: the school and try to cover all children and young people without exception. This example clearly demonstrates the interest in effective and concrete measures where the state is able to establish itself as the primary and fundamental element of protecting the oral health of children and youth.
This is the best example of how to protect the rights of children and youth access to oral health care is exercised by the state, also in Portugal it is for the state to assume similar responsibilities allowing oral health is an integral part of the curricula of the teaching basic and secondary, and that prevention and dental care is offered in schools for all children and young people of school age, without any limitations or restrictions.
The importance of oral health promotion at school never, under any circumstances, should be placed at a lower level to promote sex education to all children and young people should be guaranteed the right to receive all necessary dental treatment necessary for their age, they should be included educational projects in schools and the Ministries of Education and Health should make available all resources to schools for implementation.
It is time to definitively abandon oral health programs of dubious execution, always in constant change as the ministers who will be replacing each other governments, and definitely bet on a universal school oral health status of preventive and curative done in schools, partnership with the community and technical experts hired by the state.
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