467. Newspaper interview i Orlando Monteiro da Silva (Part 2: Analysis of the interview /3)

The President of the Medical Dental alert to the possible profound mistake of falling into temptation to hypermarkets dental treatments, from their own dental faculties. So in that sense, it is necessary and very urgent regulatory partnerships between the public and private sectors, to allow increased access of the population in general oral health care and eliminate the differences in prices between the queries provided in schools dental offices and outside the dental faculties. The day to go to a dental consultation is equal in terms of cost to customers, among the different offerings of specialty, the quality will determine where people wish to be consulted.

The main problem of oral medicine in Portugal in the medium term, still resides in the practice of completely exorbitant prices in the provision of oral health care and the day in which prices adjust to the reality of the economic wealth of the population, there will be no supply dentists in sufficient numbers to meet demand. No one understands the concern of limiting the number of dentists to form by the faculties of dentistry, where efforts should be geared to increase the supply of oral health care, improving the quality of services rendered and dramatically lower the current price levels in offices, currently, most of the portuguese population is still without any possibility of access to oral health care throughout his life.

The focus on the revitalization of the specialty in Health Centres, in conjunction with the development of cooperative sector unionism in the field of dentistry, allied to an increasingly greater degree of cooperation between dentists and all other technical specialists in oral health are strong options that can force private interests and multinationals in the sector to lower the price of the hand - of - work and matter - material.

It is completely absurd and false to the country that make you want already exists an excess number of dentists in Portugal. The future is an opportunity that must be grasped with both hands.