Presidential candidate Fernando Guerra defends reformulation of the dentist-check - The candidate for president of the College of Dental Association (OMD) Fernando Guerra defended today the immediate re-check the dentist, considering that the measure is ineffective in improving the oral health of citizens.
As dentist-check entered in the National Oral Health has proved increasingly ineffective, with a period and way of functioning inconceivable to the oral health of young people, pregnant women and elderly people who want to cover claims Fernando Guerra in a statement released today . According to the candidate list B for young people in many parts of the country checks were issued only in August and the closure of the treatment takes place this October 31.
Oral diseases are not seasonal, says the professor of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Coimbra. According to the candidate for president of the College of Dentists, the same inefficiency has been demonstrated in late payments to professionals, with more than five months of waiting, which entails enormous difficulties for the viability of clinics and offices that joined the program.
In defending the immediate re-check the dentist and the National Oral Health, Fernando Guerra also advocates a decisive stance in defense of the OMD patients and physicians, dentists and end with the attitude pactuante purely political interests. Patients and dentists can not be condemned to hold the check-dentist claims.
According to Fernando Guerra, the Directorate General of Health, agreed with the president of OMD still intends for the dental care needed in the oral cavity are carried out in a predetermined fixed amount, not looking at various details and the number of acts medical and dental running, calling into question the professional ethics and the right to health of citizens. On the other hand, this government election promise in extending the check-young dentist from 4 to 17 years and diabetes continues to not encourage adequate patient care and not to address the just reward of treatments that allow the recovery of dental specimens at risk , harming citizens.
Proposals for reform, the list B claims, among other measures, eradication treatments at no cost, to draw up a schedule of payments dignified and differentiated for the different medical and dental instruments, the penalty for late payment, the simplification of administrative procedures and adequate scientific monitoring program. Elections for the OMD are scheduled for December 12, competing also the current president, Orlando Monteiro da Silva.
On 12 September, the president of the Dental Association revealed that more than 90,000 dental checks were given to pregnant women and elderly people between May 2008 and August 31 this year.
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Candidate for president of OMD advocates extending dental checks to diabetic and HIV positive - The candidate for president of the College of Dental Association (OMD) Orlando Monteiro Silva Tuesday defended the extension of dental checks to diabetic and HIV positive, and adequacy of the number of graduates looking for the reality of the Portuguese market.
Unlike Fernando Guerra, another presidential candidate who advocated the immediate overhaul of the program of dental checks for considering the measure ineffective in improving the oral health of citizens, the candidate list A of the OMD to consider the measure included in the Program National Oral Health should be expanded. Pretending not to create shocks either change course or call into question what has been achieved, what is being negotiated with the Government, and that might be achieved is the extension of dental check-children from four to 18 years and other special population groups such as diabetics (about one million in Portugal) and those with HIV positive, sustained the Lusa news agency.
For the president, who reapply for the position, the proposal for immediate reform, proposed by List B, would result in the end the program with a huge disservice to the people and for the thousands of professionals who have acceded to it. Listing A presents major challenges for the class, including reducing the number of graduate training in dentistry that existing colleges are producing, advanced.
In recent years we have gone from about 5300 to 7100 dentists. This is inadequate to the demand that exists in Portugal, creates situations of underemployment and unemployment in the class, he advocated. This situation is leading professionals to seek employment elsewhere, there are even cases of dentists enrolled in job centers. We have 400 registered dentists to practice in England and several others to engage in other European countries, namely Luxembourg, Sweden, Denmark, etc., he stressed, considering this situation entirely inappropriate.
Orlando Silva Monteiro also defended the extension of the access to medicine, dentistry through a system of reimbursement of dental consultations in private to the users of the National Health Service (SNS in portuguese), which already exists in Madeira and the Azores. Most of its population has no access to dental care by the SNS, excluding dental checks, he stressed.
The inclusion of dentists in SNS hospitals, health centers and family health units in a career suited to their own profession is another proposal from List A, and the inclusion of dentistry in occupational medicine. It is unacceptable that dentistry is excluded from this area because about seven to ten percent of absenteeism from work is linked to oral health, he argued.
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