476. Four years of ORAL HEALTH

It is now four full years to publish the Oral Health. Over these four years here have been treated the most widely varying issues related to oral health in Portugal, unfortunately, there is still a lot of work on, because the balance of four years on oral health in Portugal brought little positive to society, and much less for the poor and excluded.

The Oral Health has tried to be always updated, informing its readers about the latest news relating to oral health in our country. Keeping an independent editorial line, the Oral Health has tried to be always on the defense of civil society, never aligning interests by co-operative, did not hand the disastrous policies pursued by various governments and the Directorate - General of Health in this area, and there was a protagonist of big business with large vested interests in the sector.

The Oral Health was guided by the right to indignation and straightforwardness, I was always concerned the rights of citizens enshrined in the Constitution of the Republic.

The constant trampling of the rights enshrined in the Constitution, access to health care, favored policies of the Ministry of Health outputs, sometimes aligned interests within the cooperative sector, coupled with the ineffectiveness of amorphous powers of Parliament and President, allow the systematic violation of demagogic and fundamental human rights, including the Charter of rights of the Child, denying them one of the most basic human rights: access to health care.

In a country where the training of dentists is at the expense of all the Portuguese who work and pay taxes, continue to use schemes that prohibit access to dental care to the majority of the population. The oral health care are now almost exclusively the right of the political positions of the central government and the bourgeoisie, the working class will still have much to fight to get equal rights in this society atrocious output from April 25, 1974.

Shame demagogic exercised by those who want the system remains as it is going to have the company for Oral Health for many more years.