568. dental three dimensions

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567. 13th Edition of the Month for Colgate Oral Health and SPEMD

During the month of March the Portuguese Society of Stomatology and Dentistry (SPEMD) and Colgate promote the 13th edition of Oral Health Month Colgate and SPEMD.

With the aim of preventing oral diseases and enhance education for proper oral hygiene among the Portuguese population, the SPEMD (Portuguese Society of Stomatology and Dentistry) and Colgate held in March, the initiative "Oral Health Month 2012". During this period, hundreds of doctors and dentists dentists throughout the country (including Azores and Madeira) will open the doors of their offices to undertake voluntarily, free dental screenings to the population (no treatment or radiographic examination). For SPEMD and the Colgate Oral Health Month allows the population to have access, free of charge, a full assessment of their state of your oral health and, through a pedagogical way, highlighting the importance of having hygiene oral correct.

The "Oral Health Month and SPEMD Colgate" has allowed since 2000, conducting over 120,000 free dental screenings and institutionalized among the Portuguese population, all years adhered to this campaign, and health professionals oral, that continue to cooperate in this common effort to promote good oral hygiene of the Portuguese population. To participate in the Oral Health Month Colgate and SPEMD, interested parties can get details of your nearest stick in your area using the "blue line" - 808 305 306, from March 1, between 11.00 to 19.00 during weekdays and from 10h00 to 14h00 on Saturdays, or through the websites http://www.colgate.pt/ and http://www.spemd.pt/  

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566. Oral Health in Portugal: marching inverse unlike the rest of the world

Portugal, in the XXI century and 26 years after being a member country of the European Union, remain without any concrete policy for oral health, leaving the overwhelming majority of its population without public coverage in the area of ​​oral health care. Simultaneously, the private economic groups interested in oral medicine accumulate Big Money business associates to speculation in the prices of queries, where a professional intended to implement minimum prices on the prices to be applied in dental consultations.

The oral health policy in Portugal is completely discredited, since it does not guarantee any rights of public medical assistance to people unable to financially rely on the private sector.

All proposals already submitted to the present government to begin to fundamentally change the oral health sector in Portugal (please read here and here) have not yet obtained no response.

On the other hand continues to drain public funds supposedly intended for oral health, going directly to other institutions (please read here, here and here) without there being some benefit of the neediest population and in need of medical assistance. For example, hundreds of thousands of euros or maybe a few million served to sanitize the accounts of the television stations in time to make possible the treatment of oral health to many thousands of children and youth.

Proliferate by country plots that allow different institutions to make use of public resources, without which see an effective and real contribution to the improvement of oral health in Portugal. After all, many of these institutions may survive at the expense of the state budget, composed of the taxes of those who work.

Anyway, it takes too little public resources that systematically brings efficiency for society in general.

Abroad are made tremendous efforts and resources are channeled to wage real battles in the fight against oral diseases, developing programs to eliminate tooth decay. In Portugal, by contrast, the central government, the political institutions that should be at the service of society, public health institutions and even much of the sector's own oral health are the main obstacles for the promotion and renewal of the current bleak outlook of declining oral health of most of its population.

President of the Republic Cavaco Silva, Prime - Minister Pedro Passos Coelho, Director - General of Health Francisco George, Lord Dean of the Dental Association Orlando Monteiro da Silva: what is the criterion according to which a child or young person can receive all treatments of oral health that needs to come to enjoy a healthy and without any sequelae associated with oral health and another child or young person has ever right to treatment rid of the might suffer permanent and irreversible consequences, both physical and psychological, for the rest of your life?

What kind of political system exists in Portugal? Does anyone who is not able to live up to the performance of public functions and puts resigns his post at the disposal of those who know more and do better in the public cause? 

565. The alliance for a future free of caries

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