One in ten dentists Portugal left to go work in another country, and this output is to be stressed for lack of alternatives, said the president of the Portuguese Dental Association. Orlando Monteiro da Silva said that since late 2009, has migrated about 700 dentists, representing 10% of professionals authorized to practice dentistry in Portugal.
The Dental Association is aware of these data through license applications equivalences that these dentists request, in order to work in member states of the European Union and other countries. According to Orlando Monteiro da Silva, this output has arisen in the last year and there are whole classes who complete courses in dentistry aware that they are working outside of Portugal. The main countries of destination of these dentists are the UK, Sweden, Switzerland, France, Luxembourg and Norway.
Orlando Monteiro da Silva considers that the conditions of work, and their remuneration, these dentists are in destination countries, are good. A newly graduated dentist can receive between 500 and 600 euros in Portugal, if you are lucky to get a job, and ten times more in England, for example, said. It is good to practice in other countries, but what is negative is when it emerges as a fatality, he said.
Orlando Monteiro da Silva also revealed that in addition to young people, also dentists with ten, fifteen year career are increasingly looking for a job abroad for lack of reply in Portugal. According to the document numbers of the Order of Dentists, which reveals the 2012 statistics of the profession, in 2016 there will be 11,510 dentists in Portugal, a number 55% higher compared to currently registered.
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Approximately two million children and young Portuguese continue to see oral health through a straw. So goes the oral health in Portugal. On this subject silence reigns in Portugal.
