It is shameful the swamp of oral health in Portugal and unfortunately something that has to do from private initiatives and voluntarily.
It is urgent positions in defense of the needy and victimized by the system; oral health should be made available to all Portuguese people in equal circumstances.
The Government, the Parliament and DGS (Directorate - General for Health) need to take urgent measures to put an end to the tremendous inequalities in access to dental care that exist today in our country. It is urgent and needed a major overhaul of current policies in order to channel resources for medical care and empty amorphous bodies that represent costs and have zero value - added to improve the oral health of the Portuguese, the same financial resources can and should allow very best care and oral health.
It takes place on an equal footing the public and private sector, both have to provide minimum services to the population quality in terms of oral health, without discrimination based on income, social class or age of the people.
Is urgent to start promoting preventive oral health, right from infancy, and institutionalize an urgent bulletin Individual Oral Health; see examples made in other countries, much less developed than Portugal but we take many years to advance in terms of oral health.
Eliminate programs were contracting, authentic blue bags are nothing more than mere handouts that solve nothing and let everything stay the same.
Dentists are trained in the country at the expense of taxes of all Portuguese have to be of service to the entire population; its various organizations, all levels are responsible for the good of public health and forcefully denounce and repudiate in the strongest terms the use of oral health as a means of enrichment and manipulation by multinational corporations and economic groups, which severely degrade the accessibility of dental care to those who have more needs and can not do so for economic reasons.
Only then can we have better oral health in Portugal, without this meaning any increase in health spending in the budgets of the country.
If you are unable to act, then put your jobs on offer and let others do more and better.
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