84) Funds for improving the dental hygiene increased by 20 percent in 2007

The government is preparing to introduce new rules in the law on smoking in enclosed places. The announcement was made by the Minister of Health yesterday in Europarque of Santa Maria da Feira, after the opening session of the XV Congress of the Order of Dentists, linking them to measures of education for oral health.

The governor also revealed the intention of the government to increase in 2007, the funds for the promotion of dental hygiene by 20 percent under the national programme with the same name. "We must continue to invest in this area to reach 80 percent of children free of caries in 2020 as the target suggested by the World Health Organisation," said Correia de Campos.

For accounts of his Ministry, half of children aged under six years suffer from dental caries. The National Programme for the Promotion of Oral Health provides that here in four years all children from three to 16 years have access to dentist.

Until now, this project has already led 140 thousand children to the dentist chair. From there, Correia de Campos and extend it to pregnant women and people at risk. In the field of social support, the Minister of Health reminded the creation by the government, two thousand seats for continuous care of the elderly health and stressed the establishment of 22 units of Family Health (USF), which will be 50 by the end of the year. According to the governor, the USF (related to health centres) will allow for a universe of 125 thousand portuguese who is without a family doctor. And, moreover, represent "a window of opportunity" to improve the oral health of consultations since the dental practitioners can associate itself with them. Correia de Campos assured, however, that the social concern of the executive vai remain in 2007, as it did this year. "The government managed to meet budgetary targets without the loss of social meaning," said Correia de Campos, said that the promotion of oral health as a "concern of the Government", but pointed out that parents and teachers "should teach children to brush their teeth and using dental wire. "

O Primeiro de Janeiro`

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Here recorded the concerns of the Minister of Health on oral health in our country; penalty is a speech that focused mainly for the future, showing few results in this. Indeed, it appears that 2020 is expect to time for too many children and young today (adults in 2020). Also, the Minister does not mention the number and geographical scope in here are already affected the USF consultations with the oral health - too little, too little for the needs of the present.

Gerofil

83) Sports school encourages increase of dental accidents

The dental injuries are increasing as the number of children to sports, said the professor of Dental Medicine Jose Frias Bulhosa. "The children practise sport ever earlier, which has caused an increase in the number of dental injuries, facial and cranial", stressed the faculty of the University Fernando Pessoa (UFP), in Porto.

Jose Bulhosa stressed that the care of their teeth has been associated only with the use of brushes and toothpaste and reducing the consumption of sugars, but "is much more than that." "An accident can have consequences in oral health for the rest of life", warned the expert, noting that the UFP is take actions to preventive dental schools to train teachers of Physical Education, recommending that avoid exercises that put at risk the teeth.

The UFP concluded this week a protocol with the Board of Maia for the conduct of surveys and actions for prevention of dental disease in eight schools of the county. Jose Bulhosa said that these actions will be developed in two mobile units by about 80 students of the third and sixth years of the course of Dental Medicine of UFP, under the guidance of their teachers.

The units consist of two mobile vans equipped as dental clinics, which Joseph Bulhosa, have no parallel in Portugal, given its "exceptional conditions" for the practice of dentistry. In addition to Jones, the two vans have been involved in actions of preventive dentistry in Porto, Vila do Conde, Ponte de Lima and Braga, and also scheduled for the coming months to travel Baião and Amarante.

Diário Digital

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To start is fine, let's see if the competent authorities to extend these initiatives throughout the country, including the Azores and Madeira. They are here to say you are Ministers of Health and Education - are waiting to see.

Gerofil

82) Authority of MAIA presents programme of 'School Health'

The council of Maia announced at the meeting of the Executive last Thursday, that students from gardens-of-childhood and primary schools in the county will do a screening and take lessons from nutritional education, oral hygiene and prevention of sun. To that end, the council established partnerships with teams from various institutions that these will go on educational institutions of the county, the project School Health.

Quoted by the News Journal, the chairman of the Municipal Council of Maia, Braganza Fernandes, revealed that the programme will cover 7,200 children. "We want to teach all students to take a good breakfast, to wash their teeth and know about the care of the sun", said the mayor, noting that "with this project, once again, we are replacing us the State '.

During the meeting was also approved the proposal for recruitment of teachers of Physical Education, which will be placed in private institutions of social solidarity. The municipality will support a total of 16 entities.

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An example for the Ministry of Education; instead be source of many conflicts, to present projects; thank everyone, especially those who need them most.

Gerofil

81) Prevention

Natal (Brazil) - Students at public network of education from Rio del Fuego, municipality located in North Coast, are the target of a campaign of oral health developed by the prefecture. The goal is to prevent dental diseases in childhood and building the new generation about the importance of oral hygiene and the need to consult with a dentist regularly. The work includes the proposal to put into practice preventive health by the municipal administration.

River of Fire is 90km from Natal. The council is administered by mayor Francisco Chagas of the Cross, the Tico. Professionals Program of Oral Health, which operates through a partnership between the city and federal government, are responsible for the care of children and teenagers who study in the local network of public education. In addition to regular dental care, students have access to the application of fluoride and cleaning, plus lectures and material awareness.

Service - The network of municipal education meets today to 2.8 thousand students from kindergarten, elementary education and education of young people and adults. The work of oral health benefits young people studying at the headquarters of Rio del Fuego and also in communities. With 10 thousand inhabitants, Rio do Fogo has distributed its population not only in the main area of concentration but also in urban districts as Canto Grande, Zombie, Pititinga and Punaú.

The policy of oral health is part of the proposed prevention defined as priority by the current administration goal from Rio del Fuego. The council seeks, through preventive health, improving quality of life and reduce the need for admitting patients and moving them out of the council.

Prevention - The preventive medicine is practised by the Family Health Program (PSF), which responds to all areas of Rio del Fuego. Each team is composed of PSF by doctors, nurses, technical staff in nursing and community health, ensuring greater range of care provided by the team at various locations where it operates.

The program serves the communities through home visits and the network of health posts. The FHP develops campaigns, reproductive health, family planning, hypertension and diabetes and is also able to guide relative to other needs that arise.

Diário de Natal

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Another matter of interest to the oral health; here are in working methods that benefit the very people in need.

For now, Portugal, it was the lack of disclosure of such initiatives - in fact, combining the lack of information of the population in need of care oral addition to the silence on the part of anyone of law is required to ensure the oral health of the population, especially the most disadvantaged and needy. It will not be for lack of jurisdiction, lack of resources or lack of means; simply need is political will.

It is therefore extremely important for their cooperation to build up public opinion in Portugal informed: read and disclose how far can this Blog - the results can only arise when end the ignorance in our country and the public Tuesday to vote on issues of fact public health.

Gerofil

80) Statistics

Lages (Brazil) - More than 13 thousand people are attending From January to September this year, the Department of Health has provided medical and dental care for thousands of people residing within Lages.

On Monday (30) Step into the Fernandes and Tuesday (31) in Padlock, the teams of the Secretariat of Health of Lages have a roadmap for medical and dental care of the month of October, within the city of Lages.

For the month of November, the roadmap provides care for the visit of teams of health in 17 localities in the interior. According to the coordinator of the roadmap of the interior, Glaucia Ruth White, from January to September this year (missing compute the numbers of October) have already been carried out 13,331 consultations (or queries) inside. The health teams are formed by the following professionals: doctors, dentists, nurses, technical staff and health workers.

WebLages

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Someone in Portugal gives me statistics on oral health conducted by public entities? I was very grateful, particularly getting to know what percentage of population served.

Gerofil

79) Proposal for discussion

Comment on the following statement:

"In Portugal, initiatives and financial costs of large and wide million euros in oral health, by public authorities, the vast majority served for the preparation of" studies ", pamphlets and related that after completion, they almost always in the drawers of secretaries of ministries and its extensions, without which there exists any real public benefit to citizens, paying taxes, which will ultimately be treated the same or worse shape than before the drafting of those studies. "

Gerofil

78) Proposal interesting for investment in health, the municipal level

BREJINHO (Brazil) - Users of the network of municipal public health Brejinho have been benefited by the municipal investments in infrastructure for care and surgery, as part of staff on the projects of health preventive, monitoring of residents carrying diseases chronic and distribution of medicines.

The city has five teams of the Family Health Program (PSF), which cover 100% of the territory of the municipality.

In addition to the teams of FHP, the city has four teams of the Program of Oral Health. The professional conduct free dental restorations, extractions, cleaning and fluoride applications, among other services. The program also works in schools, in campaigns of oral health geared to students. This work is of fundamental importance because it creates an awareness of prevention in the municipal network that students end up becoming important multiplier of this habit of prevention.

Diário de Natal

77) SECRETARIAT OF EDUCATION OF S. PAUL MAKES CONFERENCE ON HEALTH OF STUDENTS

This Tuesday (24) until Thursday (26) will be held in Sao Paulo the Seminar II School Health Promotion The event, sponsored by the Municipal Secretary of Education, will present a representative of each of the 1,200 schools in the township. The municipal network serves approximately 1.1 million students. The seminar will be in the amphitheater "A" of the State Public Hospital of the server, which is on Lake Street Borges, 1,855, 15, in Vila Clementino.

During programming, from 8 am to 17h, specialists in health, universities and public institutions will speak on topics related to the welfare of children and adolescents as nutrition, oral health, including education, domestic violence and sexual, cardiovascular health in children and adolescents and pregnancy.

Each day of the meeting will be devoted to one of three methods of municipal education: the Centers for Children's Education (Ceis), the Municipal School of Education Child (EMEIs) and the Municipal School of Education Foundation (Emefs), Municipal Schools, Primary / Average (EMEFMs) and Municipal School of Special Education (Emees).

G1.com

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Affairs interesting to address with teachers. It is the importance, among others, the valence of oral health. Finally, issues that directly concern the student population. More than a theory, these practices need to be real in Portugal.

Gerofil

76) Because the oral problems interfere directly in the pattern of life

Recife, Brazil - According to a survey conducted by the Coordination of Oral Health of the Prefecture of Recife, the dental care has improved in the last five years. From 2000 to 2005, the number of procedures performed by the city increased from 880,170 to 1,152,664. The analysis is published this week in which they celebrate the National Day of Dental Health and Surgeon-Dentist Day, this Wednesday (25). "The current model of attention to oral health in Recife values the new logic of prevention and health promotion to the detriment of those procedures only curative in nature and / or mutilantes as it was until a few years ago," evaluates the coordinator of the Oral Health Prefecture , Nilcema Figueiredo. According to her, there was a decline in the number of dental extractions of permanent teeth. The percentage dropped from 4.7% in 2000 to 2.6% in 2005. We have specialized procedures, such as the achievement of channels, surgeries and treatment of diseases of the gums, increased from 5.1% to 7.8%.

Currently, the network of dental services in Recife account with 75 units of Family Health (USF), totaling 90 teams of oral health. "Our goal is to expand, gradually, coverage of the teams of oral health, the number of Centers of Dental Specialties, and emergency rooms in order to further improve care for the people recifense," says the director of the Mayor for Health Care of Recife, Tereza Campos.

The model of attention to oral health of the council also has 25 units traditional (the old, health posts), 4 centres of dental specialties (CEO), 3 emergency dental services, 5 clinics and services conveniados the SUS. "The oral health is a significant component of general health, mainly because of the problems oral interfere directly in the pattern of life," examines Nilcema Figueiredo.

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And for us here in Portugal? Who gives statistics? Who by law have evolved as referred by number, the care of oral health in Portugal? Is it that there are numbers?

Gerofil

75) Complete dental treatment, which helps patients from 0 to 100 years old

Aracatuba, Sao Paulo (Brazil) - Search recent World Health Organization (WHO) indicates that in 2005 the public service of Dentistry Aracatuba index showed positive for the oral health of children, compared with previous years.

The information was disclosed this Wednesday by Secretary of Health of the council, with regard to the Dentist Day, celebrated every 25th of October. Aracatuba is headquarters of the Faculty of Dentistry of Unesp, which contributes to that degree of efficiency, according to experts in the area.

The figures show that children up to 12 years of age are below the world average of teeth, lost and stopped. Already the percentage of children free of caries to 5 years of age is 50%.

The head of the division of dental Aracatuba, the dentist Dirce Sato Shimata, said the figures achieved by the city in search of the WHO are the result of efforts of the professional teams of each unit, with activities of prevention, guidance and educational lectures. Dirce recalls that dental services were offered only to pregnant women, infants and children by 2001. The adults received treatment for emergencies, such as extraction of teeth, in cases of pain.

"Today the city offers a complete dental treatment, which helps patients from 0 to 100 years old," he explains. The municipal dental care is done in several places: Ready-Relief; Clinic of the Baby; units of the Dona Amelia and Jussara, on 19 Emefs (Municipal Schools for elementary school); state schools; CEO (Center for Dental Specialties); office in outpatient STD / AIDS; teams of FHP (Family Health Program); programme of brushing, developed in 80 Emeis (Municipal Schools of Education Child), and dental services specialist with two dentists who work in partnership with Unesp of Aracatuba.

This Wednesday, the service dental work done education on disease prevention and guidance on the care with oral hygiene in all units of dental council. During the period of service in those units, the population can receive explanations about oral health, such as brushing, the correct way to use dental floss, diet.

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We hope also that arise in Portugal municipalities candidates to be recognized by the World Health Organization by the results that can to fight the diseases of the mouth (not forgetting also the effort of the Ministry of Health).

Gerofil

74) How to get where we need?

Because the oral health must be made soon since the first months of life, here are some more examples that can be adapted and applied here also in Portugal.

There is not enough dentists, we must focus on prevention and allow all portuguese instant access to oral health care, without any social or geographical discrimination.

Thus, the adaptation of some of these campaigns to reality portuguese (including among the most needy population) and the creation of the possibility of immediate access to treatment that is needed is necessary and urgent measures to be applied in our country, in order to combat the serious problems of oral health that still affect a large percentage of population.

Gerofil

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UBS develops preventive actions (28-10-2006)

Children draw what they learned with activities

Marília, Sao Paulo (Brazil) - The UBS Plateau, south side, promoted activities related to municipal campaign Smiley Marília, oral health, throughout the week. Theater, music and recreational activities involving children in districts affected by the unit. The team who also guided the mothers on the need and ways to higienizar the mouth of babies.

The population affected by the UBS (Basic Health Unit) Plateau is about eight thousand inhabitants, of which at least two are children. "Apart from Plateau, the program covers about 20 more districts," the nurse informed care of the post, Alessandra Pereira.

The dentist's unit, in addition to other professionals of the team guided the children on the importance to maintain oral hygiene to health and taught how to brush their teeth and tongue and in which situations it should be done. To arrest the attention, resources such as music, toys, stories and theater were used.

In addition to the pediatric patients, other children of the community participated throughout the week. Luan Vinícius Rodriguez, 12 years, was yesterday in the space reserved for the unit's activities. Surrounded by many drawings on the walls, bladders and the sound of music on the brushing of teeth, he designed a poster in which learned. "The people are distracted and learn. The oral health has to be good, if not the teeth fall and must use dentures, "he said.

Anunciato Gabriel de Miranda, 11 years, is the son of one of the agents of unity and community helped to make the disclosure. "I called all my friends. What I found most interesting is how that is a sure way to brush their teeth, "he said.

In the area of phonoaudiology, it was explained to the children as babies, bottles and nozzles affect the dental arch, deform the mouth and interfere in the talks.

BABY - A team of UBS also guided the mothers who went through the unit throughout the week. The babies must have a clean mouth since birth. Just umedecer a gauze or a piece of cloth diaper, with filtered water or boiled and the finger roll through the child's mouth, including gums and tongue.

The hygiene should be done after all breastfeeding and mostly at night, before the baby to sleep. The measure prevents the bacteria that cause inflammation in the gums and ensure the birth of healthy teeth. In addition, the team warning about the mistake of putting sugar in the milk of the child, which is unnecessary and harmful.

SCHOOLS - A team of UBS Plateau also led the guidelines and plays in municipal schools Nivando Mariano de Souza and Samba Read-read. The competition of posters still awarded the winners with kits for brushing. A lecture was also held at the State School Walfredo Rothermund. All activities were developed at the initiative of the team, which also used their own resources.

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Recreational activities involving children

(24-10-2006

Marília, Sao Paulo (Brazil) - Children's education in the municipal network spent the afternoon yesterday in the Municipal Theatre. The first day of the event "Smiley Marília" with the participation of municipal authorities, which together with students, attended the presentations of music and theater on oral health.

The "Smiley Marília" is held annually by the Oral Health Program of the Municipal Bureau of Health in partnership with other dental offices in class, as the APCD (Paulista Association of Dental Surgeons).

Prevention is the key word, hence the focus of action on children. "The idea is to incorporate in people from childhood awareness of the quality of life, which includes oral health," stressed the dentist Marco Girotto, coordinator of the event. The mayor emphasized that Mario Bulgareli in health, prevention is the best alternative. The municipal secretary of Health, Julio Cezar Zorzetto, was also present.

Children's municipal network attended a presentation of students in Apae (Association of Parents and Friends of Exceptional) who danced and represented the sound of a parody in tribute to the dentists. Following, community health agents and dentists of the Family Health Program (PSF) made plays interactive.

"More than 70 professionals are involved in this work themselves and develop the parts that show," Girotto informed. According to him, so playful children absorb knowledge, which increases the chances of them having a routine of proper oral hygiene.

Today and tomorrow, other students in the municipal network attend the presentations in the theatre. The units of the health council are also planning activities throughout the week, also with the target audience of children.

The correct cleaning the mouth not only prevent cavities. Apart from the mouth bacteria multiply if the food remains and remove calcium from the teeth, making them more vulnerable to them, the intake of these bacteria can bring consequences for the body. The bodies tend to be more damaged heart, liver and kidneys.

Jornal da Manhã

73) Oral health "versus" professional success

An attractive smile is also a business card, which can open doors - using a search of the American Academy of Cosmetic Dentistry, 74% of respondents believe an attractive smile just an obstacle to career success.

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It is not enough just work and success in studies; who want to have greater professional and personal success must also have an attractive smile.

How many and how many measures for success in school, when often do not give a minimum of attention to what that children and young people most in need, particularly health care related to their development.

It is a pure lie but true: for a couple to enroll in secondary or elementary education has to take the vaccines in the day, but nobody cares about your oral health. There is courage and change to the law.

Gerofil

72) Project Smile: Solidarity Action for a Better Smile

Recife, Brazil - will be launched this Saturday (21), Project Smile: Solidarity Action for a Better Smile, in the Park May 13, Centre of Recife, from 9am to 16h, within the celebrations of the Week for Oral Health. The initiative, the Faculty of Dentistry of Recife (FOR) in partnership with the municipal departments of Health and Social Welfare Policy, aims to promote education in oral health in the area.

About 60 students and 20 teachers FOR develop the activities of diagnosis of oral lesions and talk to the caries-prevention education and cancer of the mouth, emphasizing the importance of self-examination and early detection of lesions that can lead to cancer. If detected persons in need of treatment will leave for the municipal health network and the FOR.

In Park May 13, called the Pavilion will be mounted on Oral Health Education, where there will be presentation of puppets and tips on brushing and application of topical fluoride. Eight species of portable fonts provided by the Department of Health will be installed in the Park May 13 to guide children.

They will be distributed 500 brushes and dental creams to the public, from children to seniors. The material was donated by the Department of Health of Recife, through the Coordination of Oral Health. The estimate is that 800 people participating the event.

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This news is also thinking in isolated villages in rural areas of the country, including the islands, where access to health care is extremely costly for the population of low economic resources. Why not bring these initiatives to Portugal, with adaptations?

Gerofil

71) Brazil: Government is concerned about the oral health of the population

The programme Brazil Sorridente the Ministry of Health delivered on Thursday, August 19, in Lavras, dental equipment for improvement of care in the area of oral health through the Unified Health System (SUS). The ceremony took place in the entry foyer of city hall, the 13h with the presence of municipal authorities and the national coordinator of oral health, Gilberto Pucca.

The equipment for the oral health was given to mayor Jussara Menicucci, in the presence of the deputy mayor Ennio Mendes, the Municipal Health Secretary Antonio Moura, the coordinator of the programme in Lavras, the dentist Alysson Matiolli Magno, coordinator of the Program for Health Family (PSF) Maria Salete Sales Pereira, of course, representatives of the Dental Unilavras, the delegate of the Regional Council of Dentistry, the dentist Eduardo Pires Cardoso, the superintendent of Oral Health, Antonio Fontes, president of the Municipal Health Council, Adjamar Veríssimo and health professionals from Lavras.

The council received 29 of the Federal Government a variety of equipment such as air compressor, dental chair, dental clinics and others. The coordinator of National Oral Health, Gilberto Pucca Junior, spoke and emphasized the performance of the Federal Government in health. The mayor Jussara Menicucci also spoke of the work done in Lavras health and thanked, on behalf of the council, the donations of the Federal Government.

Currently Lavras account with 14 teams of oral health, responsible for improving primary health care free in the municipality. In 2002 there were no investments in this area with the programme of the Federal Government, Brazil Sorridente, but from January to September this year were shared more than 212 thousand reais to the maintenance of these teams and advance in dental care.

In recent years, the Ministry of Health through the Sorridente Brazil has invested in the area of oral health in Minas Gerais. In 2002, there were only 332 teams of oral health. Today there are 1,421, which serve more than 7 million people - an increase of 328%. The programme reaches 519 municipalities mining, with more than 22 million reais invested only this year. Minas Gerais account, now with 163 clinics that provide basic assistance and shelter dental teams of oral health program of Family Health. In addition, the state has 53 Centers of Dental Specialties - other 14 in the deployment phase - distributed in 49 cities in the mining area. From January to August this year, these centers in Minas Gerais received more than 3.6 million reais.

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And for us here, as we?

Gerofil

70) Dentists: Americo Afonso candidate to president

Americo Afonso announced this Wednesday that vai face the current chairman of the Chamber of Dentists (OMD), Orlando Monteiro, in the next elections for the post, which take place the next day on December 9.

"A future with order - an order with future 'is the motto of candidates presented today by Americo Afonso, which aims to" carry out a series of measures that lead to change and renew the current landscape of class of more than five thousand doctors dentists and oral health in Portugal.

Americo Afonso proposes to make a recasting of the organizational model of the OMD, creating a Board empowered decision, accompanied by a council with the task of tracking the decisions of that executive body. It also limited the mandates of holding positions of the OMD to two mandates, create complementary systems of social assistance for members, promote the quality certification of clinics and dental clinics and create schemes mandatory update for the professional dental practitioners.

Americo Afonso, of 46 years, has a degree and doctorate by the Faculty of Dental Medicine of the University of Porto (FMDUP), where he is associate professor with aggregation. He was president of the Portuguese Society of Dental Medicine and Dentistry, Director and Chairman of the Board of the Hospital of San Marcos in Braga, vice president of the Governing Board of FMDUP and chairman of the Council of Ethics and Disciplinary the OMD.

In its curriculum has 50 scientific articles published, with three awards and honors, having given more than a hundred conferences on national and international scientific meetings.

Diário Digital

69) Centre for Oral Health

The Project Centre for Oral Health Collective

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the building citizenship in health

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There is a lack of concrete programs and real on the ground, with all they need, here is an example applied in other stops (link) who is required to establish policies on oral health in Portugal.

Today there are already in Portugal all means and resources to ensure an oral health to all the Portuguese without exception; simply wish to make available to those who need both, without social or economic discrimination. The oral health should be considered as important as food for the body.

Gerofil

68) Epidemiology - Health oral in Spain and Portugal

Epidemiology - Health oral in Spain and Portugal

César Mexia de Almeida e outros
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67) Changing oral health status of 6- and 12-year-old schoolchildren in Portugal

Changing oral health status of 6- and 12-year-old schoolchildren in Portugal
César Mexia de Almeida, Poul Erik Petersen,
Sónia Jesus André e António Toscano

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66) Some important guidelines on oral hygiene

1 - Use dental floss between all teeth at least once a day. Follow an order: start behind the last tooth to finish behind the last tooth on the other side. Do this in the arcade above and below;

2 - Clean a dental arch each time, the first higher, after the lower and finally the back of the tongue. Remember that is not excessive force that clears the teeth, but the number of times the tooth brush to scratch the surface of the teeth;

3 - Include brushing in a range of gums, because the gum needs to be rubbed and thus avoids to gingivitis;

4 - Use little toothpaste, a portion equivalent of a pea. Do not swallow the tooth pulp, as the toothpaste is only an aid to brushing;

5 - Make three bochechos with clean water to finish the brushing;

6 - Clean your teeth after meals, eat the sweets and before sleep. Due to the number of hours of sleep, the brushing of the night is one of the most important because the teeth are remineralizam a healthy environment;

7 - People with "High Incidence of Caries", that is, over four caries active, should brush their teeth every time we were feeding;

8 - Parents should narrate and brush their teeth of children; because it is proven that they only buy the notion of three-dimensional dental arcades after several demonstrations;

9 - When choosing your tooth brush to look for one that has small head, soft bristles and a cable of good grip. The brush must be discarded and individual use every three months.

FABIANE BONFADA (Surgeon-dentist)

Panambi

65) Search who need oral health care

CITY OF CHRISTMAS (Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil) - Children and adolescents of the municipality of Pedro Velho receive priority in the actions undertaken by the municipal hall, through the Municipal Secretary of Health. The team of oral health holds an intensive work in schools in the municipal network for education, in addition to the nursery and Peti (Program for Eradication of Child Labour).

Periodically, the dentists and their auxiliaries Minister lectures on the importance of brushing, oral hygiene and the use of dental floss. The oral diseases are also subjects of the talks. This work is developed through the programme of Oral Health.

According to the coordinator of the municipal health secretary, Adriana Juvêncio Fonseca, currently a team of oral health is doing the work of prevention with children of nursery school children and teaching Hall. With the children assisted by Peti, actions have been completed. "Through lectures given by dentists and their assistants, students will be targeted on the importance of oral hygiene. Children are the main targets of educational work, but the service extends to the entire population of any municipality," he says.

Treatment: Adriana Fonseca points out that besides the preventive work carried out in schools, kindergartens and social programs, the team guarantees the oral health of dental treatment forwarding the patients for office. "When the team detects any event that requires dental treatment, does the scheduling and pushes the student to the office, ensuring that the child do the curative treatment," he says.

Diário de Natal

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Great example that the Ministries of Education and Health should implement without delay all schools in Portuguese, without exception.

Gerofil

64) Inform people of the consequences for not being properly treated in time

The dental prostheses have expiry date: a dentures that "dance" in the mouth may make it difficult to speak and chew the leaves or face early aged. In these cases, should be replaced, under the risk of harming their health. The continuous use of an inadequate or poorly adjusted dentures can damage the lining and lead to a malignancy (cancer) due to constant contact in the soft tissues of the mouth. The alert is the master and specialist in periodontics, Clarindo Mitiyoshi. He is a member of the European Academy and coordinator of the course of specialization in dental implant of the Association of Surgeons Paulista-Dentists - Section Jardim Paulista (APCD).

Mitiyoshi explains that over the years, the human being presents bone. That is, the bones on which the dental prosthesis was shaped decrease naturally. This change may leave the prosthesis unstable.

According to the expert, the caries is primarily responsible for the loss dental. Even in adulthood, the greater prevalence of periodontal disease, which affects the gums. Young people can also develop severe periodontal problems, so Mitiyoshi highlights the importance of regular visits to the dentist for the early diagnosis of the disease.

Treatment: among the options for treatment of oral rehabilitation for cases of edentulism (no teeth) are the prosthesis total (dentures) and fixed on prosthetic implant. The prosthesis on fixed implant, in the opinion of Mitiyoshi, is the definitive solution because it offers greater stability and security for the patient chew, smile and talk, recovering their self-esteem and promoting its social coexistence.

The dental industry is constantly evolving and there are various techniques and implants available for oral rehabilitation. Depending on the clinical evaluation, treatment may involve the use of bone graft and last up to six months to complete. When the clinical indication is favourable, it is possible to place the dental implant in up to one hour, without the need for bone graft. According to Mitiyoshi, now you can replace any type of prosthetic dental implant system by mouth. "Only those who want to use dentures," says.

Bem Paraná

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If our leaders are truly interested in preventing the diseases associated with oral health, then pass this information to people, including younger age groups, while enabling the proper treatment to all the people - everything else is completely unnecessary and will of our tax money badly spent.

Gerofil

63) Success rate of dental implants is about 98%

Fernando Almeida is responsible for theoretical and practical for placing implants in their clinics, located in Lisbon and Porto. The course has nine modules, last approximately six months and are dentists to doctors who want deepen their knowledge in this area. The practical part is the first carried out in jaw of animals; later, patients in each of the clinics.

Besides the courses, Fernando Almeida promoter is an action of solidarity: "We treated several children free up to 18 years, per day, which are under Social Security, the Home Internato of Oak, in Porto. Children are victims of ill-treatment by the parents, children of prisoners, alcoholics, people with AIDS and so on. "In Lisbon, with the partnership of the Borough Council Bethlehem, is scheduled to implement a similar action directed at poor of all ages.

Médicos de Portugal

Dr. Fernando Almeida, dentist and researcher from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden

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Dear Dr. Fernando Almeida, here is the thanks for his work in solidarity with those who are most needy.

We must not forget that Portugal is not only Lisbon and Porto, we must find urgent measures for the large percentage of children and young people from the rural interior of the continent and the islands that is completely neglected in terms of "oral health" by the NHS , Despite many promises, studies and measures taken by the authorities that more appear to be made for "English" see and then put in the drawer.

Gerofil

62) I lost my teeth, and now?

In terms of today we will talk about a technique that is called: Protocol. If you've lost all their teeth, or many of them undoubtedly this technique can solve your case, so quickly, without much pain and with a relatively low cost. The protocol will return to you a correct chew food, will end the embarrassment of smiling and thus return the format that was before the face of the absence of teeth.

Before the dental implants, there was no fixed solution available to people who had lost all their teeth. Today, it is possible to replace a jaw with some teeth without dental implants and a bridge supported fixed on them which will result in a permanent solution, stable and high aesthetics.

Advantages of a Protocol on implants:

When all the teeth are missing or are in such a state that is necessary to replace them, a fixed bridge supported on dental implants is the best solution. The Protocol:

- allows you to eat and act as if it had natural teeth;

- a solid and stable solution to it serve for life;

- preserves the appearance of the face - prevents loss of bone.

Treatment:

The procedure for treatment and the number of consultations depends above all, the specific conditions. But in general, 5 to 10 consultations should be sufficient for the placement of a fixed bridge. Most patients account that felt much more comfortable than expected during the procedure.

The procedure for the treatment described here is only one, possibly several alternatives available:

1. Before the procedure the dentist determines the procedure necessary to start treatment;

2. Place the implants - the first step is the placement of dental implants to replace the root of the teeth. In this case, five implants are used. They are placed provisional teeth that let you eat and function normally while awaiting the final placement of the bridge.

3. Setting the Protocol - the protocol or permanent bridge is firmly placed on the implants. In the case of a jaw with teeth, are usually 1 to 3 consultations needed to completely fix the bridge.

4. End result - will be difficult to distinguish which new teeth and what the natural teeth - both for themselves and for others. People who used conventional prostheses before experiencing a fixed bridge protocol, this option often describe as an extremely positive experience and unmatched.

ALTERNATIVE TO BRIDGE FIXED PROTOCOL

An alternative to fixed bridge is the use of an implant-supported overdenture. The traditional prosthesis, Denture, has several disadvantages and, if possible, should be avoided.

a) implant overdenture on removable: a plug-in overdenture ball or retained by bar, which in turn is supported by two or more implants in front of the jaw. The implants help keep the prosthesis in place and provide better function and comfort. The cost is usually the reason why this solution is chosen rather than a fixed bridge - but the end result is not comparable.

b) complete removable prosthesis: a dentures that are placed loosely on the gums to supply the missing teeth. This alternative does not have great advantages - with the exception of its low cost and easy installation. The disadvantages are many: discomfort to eat, poor aesthetics, problems with speech and pain in the gums caused by the movement of the prosthesis. In addition, a complete prosthesis placed on the upper jaw severely reduces the palate.

A Tribuna Mato Grosso

61) FHP is providing full coverage

RIO GRANDE NORTH, BRAZIL - The quality of services offered in the health area is one of the priorities of the Municipality of Rio del Fuego. With the complete coverage of the council, four teams of FHP (Family Health Program) to ensure the health care community, in addition to educational work, aiming to guide on measures that provide improvements in quality of life.

According to the director of the joint unit of health, Arivoneide Bridges, the home visits are part of the monthly program carried out by teams of FHP. "Every Wednesday, about ten families receive a visit from nurses, and medical help. The visits are scheduled in advance by officials of health, according to the needs of each family," he says.

The council has four teams of FHP, which carry the coverage of 100% of the population. The director stresses the importance of educational work carried out by teams of FHP for improvements in quality of life. "Together the community of Cologne to attend the Fishermen talks that address preventive measures. The goal is to guide the population, for that take care not to acquire certain diseases," he says.

The matter was discussed at the last meeting on sexually transmitted diseases and brought together the entire community. The benefit could interact taking your questions on the subject. The next address the "human Awareness", explaining the programs developed in the health unit, but still has no date set.

The director stressed that in Punaú, the health team also develops work and education in schools with children of Peti (Program for Eradication of Child Labour). The team of oral health minister talks about the importance of oral hygiene, from brushing, the use of dental floss and the application of fluoride. "Children need to be aware of the importance of hygiene to prevent disease. Our goal is to ensure that students are targeted and acquire the habit of brushing correct," notes.

Diário de Natal

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Here is an example of a policy geared towards solving the real problems of the people, focus on prevention of diseases. Instead of spending millions and millions of euros in activities without any benefit to the population, and may our Board of Presidents and Ministers look at the Brazil and also apply here in Portugal this good example.

Gerofil

60) Medical and social solidarity

A national project to bring free medical support for those in need made in recent days, about 1,700 screenings of disease in four parishes in the county of Ponta Delgada, announced source of the initiative.

Named SMS - Medical and Social Solidarity, the project involved volunteers, from doctors, nurses and health technicians, who developed several actions during the last week, the parishes of Arrifes, San Jose, Fajã de Livramento and Low.

According to the same source, the results of the initiative exceeded expectations, given that 1,500 surveys were conducted at 530 adults, including measurements of blood glucose, cholesterol, triglycerides and study of respiratory function.

In addition, the volunteers made another 200 screenings of vision for children and promoted awareness-raising in the area of oral hygiene to 1,200 students as well as actions of family planning, breast self-examination of breastfeeding and about 300 adults and adolescents.

In total over the past five days, said the same source, benefited from this project about two thousand people of the county of Ponta Delgada, an initiative that goes to the county of Mértola, between 21 and November 24.

This project involved "a major logistics" which took nine months to organize, with the aim of helping for free and humane all that, for geographical reasons or social, have no access to basic health care, said.

After this first action, the technicians of the project following SMS, until December, for some parishes of the municipalities of Mértola and Sabugal.

The responsible even said that for the year, are already scheduled six operations on the continent, admitting the possibility that the project back in 2007, the other Azorean island.

Among the entities that joined the project include medical volunteers, the School of Health of Leiria, the School of Health Technology of Lisbon, the School of Dental Medicine at the University of Lisbon, the Portuguese Association of Support for Women with Breast Cancer and the municipal councils of Ponta Delgada, Mértola and the Sabugal.

Canal de Notícias dos Açores

59) Dentists in Health Centres

Several times I have said that there is a great need to include dentistry in consultations of Health Centers It also seems clear that this will be a difficult goal to achieve, but that is inevitable. So now, with the Family Health Units, whose philosophy of operation tend to increase competitiveness and supply of services, the path is just a direction and I believe not take much to consider the normal presence of the Medical Dental Health Centers.

Meanwhile we continue with the problem of having a considerable slice of the population's needs and problems at the level of their oral health. In the vast majority, who will need more people who do not have the economic conditions to resort to a private consultation. It is estimated to be about 50% of the population that is in this situation. At the other end we have come to witness improvement of oral health in the portion of the population with better economic resources. That improvement, which is reflected in the results directly to the general oral health of the Portuguese population, is related to the intervention that doctors dentists have been under preventive and therapeutic efficacy of diseases of the oral cavity.

As I said, the exercise of Dental Medicine in Portugal is very private, with few Centers of Health who have to support medical-dental. This is one of the reasons why only the socio-economic strata more advantaged may submit significant improvements in oral health. Thanks to a well targeted intervention, Raising awareness and motivate parents and children individually in the context of its consultation, the doctor dentist has developed an action much more effective than any of the public programme of prevention of diseases of the oral cavity that is being implemented by the state. That is, the improvement of oral health indices general of the Portuguese population, which have been submitted, resulting in improving the state of the oral cavity for children of families with better economic power.

Already the most disadvantaged children have been at the mercy of prevention programs State discontinuous, completely desarticulados and poorly designed. I believe that not only there is a worsening of the overall state of the oral health of these children because the use of toothpaste with fluoride gives them some protection. What I have come to defend over the years whenever there this matter, is that there is a pressing need to solve the problem of oral health of the poorest children. That can not be with a sporadic and not continuous, as is the current program of oral health education.

It requires rather a team of oral health with a sustained programme of awareness and prevention along with wide dissemination of a monitoring and involvement of medical dentistry in order to reinforce the prevention, control the disease and monitor them. If indeed the public prevention programs in oral health, which have been implemented over the last two decades, had been effective we would not have a report from the OECD, 2006 as unfavourable. Despite this report said that there was an improvement in the general state of the oral health of the Portuguese, also states that our country was the worst results showed that evolution within the countries that make up the European community.

Thus, a phase of containment of expenditure, continues to be counterproductive the expenditure of funds from the state for programs that international observers acknowledging insufficient results. It starts to be all too clear that while there in the government structures of Health a department of Oral Health, controlled by elements with competence in the area, which define strategies clear on this issue, be with the future of oral health of the Portuguese compromised.

As is the case with other areas of our country, waste resources without achieving the desired productivity. Already starting to be time of the current Minister of Health, Prof.. Correia de Campos, trying to reverse this trend and act accordingly.

MELO PAULO, dentist and professor of Dental Medicine

O PRIMEIRO DE JANEIRO

58) Seven doctors can make one thousand queries

MORE THAN ONE THOUSAND CHILDREN CONSULTED BY MONTH - Seven medical specialist that serve the Municipal Health in Lages (BRAZIL).

The Municipal Health records an average high enough to pediatric care. The average reaches 1,840 calls per month and according to the municipal health secretary, Heron Anderson de Souza, in pediatric care are referred to the Surveillance System Food and Nutrition.

This program consists of a set of information for the formulation and reorientation of public policies for food and nutritional situation of the population. "Every month are accompanied by 2,290 children and 280 pregnant women," informs the secretary.

Other program highlights is the Psychosocial Care (PPSP) dedicated to children and adolescents with disorders psychosocial conflicts. The objective is the pursuit of overcoming the difficulties faced in the areas psychological, psychopedagogic, phonoaudiological, social, occupational therapy, physiotherapy, dentistry for children, neurology and audiometry. Currently 5,204 children are registered in the Program.

WebLages.Com

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It's simple: just meeting of wills and work arises. Congratulations.

Gerofil

57) Free dental screening

October is the month dedicated to the Oral Health. About two thousand will find itself associate that date to a free dental check in, an initiative promoted by Colgate and the Portuguese Society of Dental Medicine and Dentistry (SPEMD).

What is the real state of hygiene and oral health of the Portuguese is that if you want to examine with the edition of 2006 free dental check-ups (no treatment or radiographs), looking simultaneously sensitizing the population of mainland Portugal, including islands, to this question. After all, only 23.7 percent of adults Portuguese, according to the latest edition of the Oral Health Month, have a completely healthy teeth. A situation that exists mainly in urban areas and regions of the Algarve (32%), the Centre (25.8%) and people with Superior Education (32.1%). The worst situations are more acute in suburban areas (20.7%) and in individuals with the Basic Education (15.7%).

The Colgate released other results: that of a study conducted in more than a hundred schools across the country with children from 5 to 12 years. Only 19 per cent of primary schools and gardens-de-promoting childhood, regularly, shares of oral hygiene. In order to involve more schools in this habit will be made, for the first time, free dental screening for children at 50 schools.

For those interested in hold a free dental check-up, Colgate and SPEMD provides a "Blue Line" - 808205206 between 9:00 a.m. and 23:00. Here you can also learn the find acceding to this initiative. In the county, it is known that joined: Odivelas (7), Pontinha (5), Póvoa de Santo Adriao (2), Ramada (1), and in the neighbouring, in Loures (3), Catujal (2), Camarate ( 2) and St. Anthony of the Knights (2).

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The oral health and the problems of the circulatory system are related

A study published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine (USA) shows that there is a relationship between oral health and heart problems since, in 4.7 percent of people who had lost a tooth expressed heart problems, this figure increases to the 5.7 percent among those who lost one to five teeth, to 7.5 percent in cases of fall of 6 to 31 teeth and to 8.5 percent in the two who lost completely. Learn that the mouth is coming to the heart. So protect both.

Nova ODIVELAS

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It is the medical knowledge that the state of oral health conditions the remaining body. Thus, it is essential bet, first, in the oral health of the people. To do so must the MINISTRY OF HEALTH PROVIDE THE MEANS NECESSARY TO POPULATION, WHAT IF PEOPLE CAN TRATAR AND PREVENT THE TIME ON THE TEETH OF DISEASES.

Gerofil

56) Dental implant, solution for those who have problems with the teeth

The dental implants are a solution for many people who have had problems with their natural teeth. The bone implants integrated began to be used in the decade of 60 and turned a success because in addition to being better from the point of view that the aesthetic dentures or bridges furniture, exercise the functions of natural teeth much more efficiently.

Dr. Mauritius Morato Corrêa below explains how this process works, its risks and efficiency.

- What are integrated bone implants?

- Entered from the decade of 60, are "bolts" of titanium placed in areas without teeth, which have the ability to exercise the functions of mastication and functional manner similar to natural teeth. By comparison, are much higher than the total prostheses (dentures) or removable (mobile bridges).

Usually the treatment is carried out in three steps: one for placing the cylinder of titanium (a more extensive surgery); another, a few months after, for the placing of devices that bear the prosthesis and finally the third stage of the construction of the piece prosthesis.

- What there is magic in titanium? There are risks of rejection?

- No. Simply the titanium does not suffer corrosion when inserted in the human body and does not present phenomenon of immune rejection. The success of the technique is because of a good set of factors: the planning of the surgical technique, a good period of healing and adequate rehabilitation. This protocol (the recipe is complete, as an implant) has minutiae that can not be neglected, and a thorough professional and well trained in the technique can achieve excellent results.

- There guarantee of success?

A principle can be said that the rate of success is a good guarantee, but in the biological processes where there is a certain amount of weightlessness.

- What are the indications against?

- The commitment of the general health which prevent the completion of surgery and the lack of sufficient to accommodate the bone implants. A detailed study of examinations by image avoid surprises, particularly in surgical stage.

- What are the risks surgical?

- Minimum. The surgery is usually done in two hours, with local anesthesia and is much simpler than other surgical procedures, dental, as the extraction of a tooth withheld, for example. The implants are placed on a non traumatic and bone is manipulated with softness, with a similar microsurgery. The only effect is associated with the subsequent detachment of the gingiva, and local swelling occur in an intensity that varies from patient to patient.

- What are the biggest problems after the placement of the implants?

- Some studies show that the greatest problems after the placement of prostheses are the diction and bites on the cheeks, depending on the placement of teeth in the areas that were without teeth for a long time and are normally resolved in a short time. Remember, the implant is much higher than other procedures, prosthesis and in the absence of the teeth, is what the best can be done.

- Can I eat everything after the placement of the prosthesis?

- No, but the restrictions are not very severe. You must take into account that the implants, for better and more reliable they may be, still do not represent the full functional recovery and aesthetics, and can not, because they are artificial, completely restore all functions that the natural teeth exercising. Thus, you should avoid foods too hard.

Tribuna Catarinense

55) Why the importance of controlling the oral health from the cradle?

Because the dental caries is a disease that appears from 6 months of age and that, if not properly treated, can affect all the teeth of milk and determine the future dentition final.

Thus, it is very important to monitor the oral health of children from the cradle; this monitoring should be done throughout the childhood and adolescence, in order to prevent any early anomalies at the level of dental development of children and adolescents.

Gerofil

54) BRAZIL: Team Health Famíliar integrate technical oral health

The six new teams of the Family Health Program (PSF), set up by City of Bauru, begin to meet from now. The service is to develop programs of prevention, recovery and rehabilitation of diseases.

Each group is composed of a doctor, a nurse, a nursing assistant, and six community health agents. When enlarged, still account with a dentist, a dental assistant, office and a technical in dental hygiene.

The service has submitted an index of resolving the cases occurred in 90% and the coverage of vaccines and prenatal care to 100%.

Jornal da Cidade - Baurú

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As in Brazil, it is expected that the Family Health Units in development in Portugal, by the Ministry of Health, also include technical, oral health, in order to make effective the fight against this disease.

It is imperative and urgent universal access of the Portuguese population, regardless of their economic power, and area of residence, consultations and treatment of oral health.

Gerofil

53) Prevention in middle school, well beyond the oral health

Prefecture of Mogi Mirim, state of S. Paulo, Brazil - The Prefecture of Mogi Mirim, through the departments of Education and Health, launched on the afternoon of Wednesday, day 4, two social projects that will benefit about 10 thousand students enrolled in the network of municipal education.

One is the program Good vision is Quality of Life, which promote tests of visual acuity, eye consultations and delivery of frame for free for students who can not pay. The other is the programme of Oral Health.

The launch of the two projects was held in Emef (the Municipal School of Education Foundation) Dona Sinhazinha. "Besides offering the process of teaching learning, the school is required to also educate students about the personal and oral hygiene check the visual health of these children," said the mayor Nelson Carlos Bueno.

The program Good Quality of Life Vision is already applied test of visual acuity in 4,500 students from the 1 st to 4 th series of elementary school. In 639 children were diagnosed some kind of problem. Now, the children will pass through a doctor ophthalmologist. The care of these students will be done through an effort, which still has no date, but it should happen by the end of the month. The visual tests continue in kindergartens and schools for Children's Education. The program has the support of the ACCB (Civil Association Citizenship Brazil), which will provide 500 frames of glasses. Students who need special lenses also have support from the municipality.

Oral Health Program had already being applied in the network of municipal education. It is now, more intensified. Each student received a kit with his name that will be of use individual. Children who have not yet started the process of literacy will have their photos pasted in the kit for identification. A team of the Department of Health, with the help of fantoches will visit all schools of the network to teach students the correct way to clean the teeth. The goal is to reduce the incidence of caries in the municipality.

Cosmo On Line

52) National programme to promote oral health

The National Programme for the Promotion of Oral Health was published by the Ministerial Order in the Daily Republic 3, Series II, on January 5, 2005. Given that it is now 21 months since its entry into vigar, question is:

-What is the number and percentage of children and young people (over the total national population of the respective age groups) that are covered by the program?

-What the gardens-of-childhood and primary and secondary schools of the country covered by the programme?

Waits is a response of the official authorities, particularly the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Education.

"The oral health of children and adolescents is a SERIOUS PROBLEM OF PUBLIC HEALTH" (page 64 of Oral Health Brochure, DGS, Lisbon, 2005)

Gerofil

51) October - Oral Health Month

The Colgate and the Portuguese Society of Dental Medicine and Dentistry (SPEMD) are to promote, during this month, a 7 th edition of the Month of Colgate Oral Health and SPEMD. During this month, the Oral Health Professionals acceding go, voluntarily, to hold a free dental check-up to the people (without radiographs or treatment), with identification of major deficiencies in the Portuguese Oral Hygiene.

On the home page of the Portuguese Society of Dental Medicine and Dentistry (SPEMD) are the reports of the initiative concerning issues from 2000 to 2005.

Gerofil

50) New service of urgency in Valongo

Opening on Monday, 2 October, at the Hospital Nossa Senhora da Conceição, Valongo the new service Urgency, requalificado second all requirements defined by the Ministry of Health for a "basic emergency service".

Within fifteen days more or less it is expected the opening of the service of Dental Medicine.

A Voz de Ermesinde

49) CAPP - Information overall dental and oral diseases

CAPP

(Information overall dental and oral diseases)

48) Andalusia (SPAIN): go with the needy

The Board launches a campaign for itinerant promote oral health among children. A bus pass by every province 144 representations of a puppet show to raise awareness among children about the importance of going to the dentist regularly.

The Ministry of Health will launch an information campaign aimed at sensitizing children Andalusian about the importance of following proper oral care, besides encouraging regular visits to the dentist header. The Minister of Health, Maria Jesus Montero, presented this initiative, consisting of a puppet show with the objective of bringing these messages to the smaller format in an entertaining, direct and attractive.

The work will be represented in an articulated bus that will tour all provinces of Andalusia until mid-November, which will allow a total of 144 performances and attendance of more than 14,000 children. The vehicle has a stage for puppet and an area for the audience, with a capacity of one hundred minors. Each session lasts about 35 minutes and consists of 9 acts.

Among other things, the book provides basic advice on the care of teeth, different parts of the mouth and the importance of going to the dentist on a regular basis. It also reports on the oral delivery free for minors, offered by the Government of Andalusia through the figure of the dentist header and the heel of dental care. The book also promotes among small other civic values, such as the importance of sharing household chores, saving water or recycling of garbage.

Of the total 144 performances to be in Andalusia, 12 correspond to Almeria, Cadiz (20); Cordoba (16), Grenada (16); Huelva (12); Jaen (16), Malaga (28) and Seville (24 ).

FREE CARE - The Board of Andalusia launched in 2002 oral health care free for children between 6 and 15 years, a measure whose implementation is being done gradually to cover the approximately 800,000 children under the age . During the year 2006, all children born in Andalusia between 1994 and 2000 can benefit from this care, which means that, in total, 587,706 are children who have access to the annual review to avoid the appearance of decay. This includes advice on preventive health and nutrition, as well as the provision of basic dental care and urgent if required by the state of your mouth or teeth.

The professional responsible for the oral health of children is the dentist header, the parent or guardian may elect annually among professionals public health system or the private sphere contracted by the Ministry of Health.

Earlier this year, the Ministry of Health referred by mail to each child the stub Annual Dental Assistance (TADA), the document that allows the choice of dentist and, in the case of persons who are entering for the first time this right is accompanied by a directory of professionals. This information is also available at health centres in provincial branches of Health and on the website of the Ministry (www.juntadeandalucia.es / health). This site also includes general information on this benefit. You can also request information on the Centre for Information and Public Services' Health Responds' (902505060).

Every child can go to the dentist elected as many times as necessary, for this purpose, it is only necessary to present the Annual Dental Assistance stub at the first visit. The purpose of this provision is that during the years that lasts this program, the child acquires a culture of oral hygiene, take appropriate preventive habits and receive adequate health care.

REVIEW - The basic dental care is a comprehensive annual review of the status of the teeth and mouth of a child, which also receives information on hygiene standards for maintaining their oral health and the correct use of fluoride, in addition to feeding tips to prevent caries. This assistance also includes preventive sealing cracks and pits that are detected, treatment of all decay of the teeth definitive removal of the pieces where it is not possible conservation, dental cleanings and urgent attention in cases necessary.

There are also cases of malocclusion severe in patients undergoing cleft palate, cleft lip and skeletal malformations.

Molina.Nuestropueblo

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Oral Health in Spain. And in Portugal? I wonder when is in Portugal to oral health will go to be considered a public health problem.

Post dedicated to the Minister of Health CORREIA DE CAMPOS, the Lord Director General of Health FRANCISCO GEORGE and the Minister of Education MARIA DE LURDES RODRIGUES.

Gerofil

47) One in four children go to the dentist to six years

One in four children go to the dentist for the first time to six years and only 19% of schools promote activities of oral hygiene among students, according to a study released by the Portuguese Society of Dentistry Dental (SPEMD).

The study covered 5,500 children, the five to 12 years, around a hundred gardens-of-childhood and primary schools throughout the country. According to the study, 25% of children visit the dentist for the first time at age six, "where have all the teeth of milk is imminent and the first eruption of teeth definitive."

The SPEMD also concluded that only 19% of primary schools and gardens-to-child perform regularly initiatives related to oral hygiene, and only 15% of the total studied is to promote the habit daily brushing of the teeth of children. "In 49% of cases, the involvement of schools it is so sporadic, through programmes promoted by other entities," adds the SPEMD.

Saúde na Internet

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The Minister of Education and Minister of Health will be insensitive to these figures?

Gerofil

46) Information and more information: the basis for success in education to health

Criciúma, Brazil - To maintain oral health to date not just clean the teeth daily. Therefore, the Secretary of Health of Criciúma holds the week of healthy smile. About 28 thousand students receive the application of fluoride gel, which protects the teeth for six months.

From 25 to 29 September, 55 professionals, among dentists and attendants of dentistry, travel round all schools municipal and state. The opening of the activity will take place tomorrow (25) at 9 am in the "neighborhood youth", with presentations of cultural workshops of the institution. The coordinator of the Office of Dentistry, Eva Regina Grings, highlights the week that includes students from pre to the 8 th grade of elementary school. "At the time of application will be developed a lecture on care with oral hygiene, diet and and techniques for cleaning of the teeth" states the dentist. Children will still be targeted which unit of health should seek if need dental care. "The purpose of the week of healthy smile is making the dental caries prevention. The fluoride protects the tooth enamel and leaves the most resistant to the bacteria that cause the disease, "says Eva. The reapplication of the material should be held every six months, in addition to the visit to the dentist. Students also receive a kit with a brush and toothpaste to take back home.

Rádio Criciuma

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If not know how to do best, at least as it is made in Brazil; ignore the situation, by the authorities, is the worst that can happen to any child. It is here to repair the Portuguese authorities.

Gerofil

45) Did you know that caries is transmitted ?

The bacteria can pass the mouths of parents for the child. The main cause of loss of teeth is a lack of proper hygiene, prevention is the treatment cheaper, more efficient and more comprehensive - the use of the thong, cleaning the tongue and teeth are measures to cooperate for the maintenance of health.

A cidade
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Now whether these prevention measures are already well taught and put into practice in all the gardens of childhood in the country, because no child born already taught.
Gerofil

44) 42% of children up to 7 years had caries

"Three in five Portuguese with pain of teeth do not go to the dentist and more than half of children between eight and 16 years already have the caries in permanent teeth, shows a study presented yesterday.

This study of the Portuguese Society of Dental Medicine and Dentistry (SPEMD) was released today in conjunction with the presentation of the 7th Month of Oral Health, an initiative that develops SPEMD in October, promoting s free dental screening throughout the country.

According to SPEMD, based on the screening of 11 thousand people during the initiative Oral Health Month 2005, 36 per cent of Portuguese adults have symptoms of pain or abscess, but only 40 percent of them sought treatment for dental problems. The SPEMD also shows that only 46 percent of participants had no problems in adult gums.

The study further points out that 42 percent of children up to seven years had caries in 55 percent of children between eight and 16 years had the dental caries in permanent teeth. "It's a very high number and shows that the pattern continues and it is worth concern ourselves with the teeth of milk," noted José Pedro Figueiredo, president of SPEMD, recalling that the idea ingrained that have no concern with the teeth of milk "is wrong."

The screening of SPEMD further points out that only 37 percent of children up to seven years has a teeth healthy. "That is, only one in three children in this age group has a reasonable oral health," stressed the chairman of the SPEMD. During the screening, 15 percent of the children indicated that in the previous three months had symptoms of infection, pain or sensitivity, and only 40 percent of children with pain or dental infections sought professional help.

"This means that 60 percent of these children in distress not sought treatment," concluded José Pedro Figueiredo, stressing that "the suffering with oral health is implicitly accepted by society, although the overwhelming majority of the diseases of the oral cavity are prevention easy. " "I think the idea was to use partnerships with private entities to provide dental treatments," defended the president of SPEMD, admitting that "the reality is that most of the Portuguese population has no economic capacity to bring to the dentist."

In 2005 dentists were observed by volunteers during the month of Oral Health, an initiative that promotes SPEMD together with Colgate, about 11,000 people from throughout the country, almost 50 percent of them aged between eight and 30 years old . In parallel, the Colgate held in May this year a study on the oral health of children Portuguese, concluding that one in four children go to the dentist for the first time for six years and only 19 percent of schools promote activities of oral hygiene among students . The study covered 5,500 children from five to 12 years about one hundred gardens-of-childhood and primary schools throughout the country.

According to the study, 24 percent of children never visited a dentist in the 81 percent because it did not consider that there was no need. Forty-five percent of the children only makes the first visit to a professional dental between five and six years, when it is already with the teeth of transition, and 36 percent of children sought a professional dental caries by problems, and pain or abscess. Thirty-nine percent of children go to the dentist less than once a year, 56 percent do not because it is not considered necessary and 28 percent because it is expensive.

The study concluded that 27 per cent of children begin to brush your teeth for two years, 47 percent of both the three and 13 percent after only three, when the recommended age is at around six months, when it starts to appear the teeth of milk. Nearly half of children (48 percent) use a brush longer than the three months recommended, 79 percent do not use or elixir or dental wire, and 57 percent brush your teeth twice a day, but one in three clean the teeth without the supervision of an adult.

The Oral Health Month, which the SPEMD held since seven years ago in October of this year with the participation of around two thousand dental find the whole country, which will make a voluntary basis dental screening free to the population, not including treatments or radiographs. According to the organizers, in addition to making dental screening accessible to people of more limited economic resources, the initiative aims to "sensitize people to the correct habits of Oral Hygiene and draw a general picture of the Oral Health in Portugal, from the results of the surveys made. "

For registration and information on the check-up free, is working the 'blue line' 808205206, between 09:00 and 23:00.

A União, Jornal Online

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I hope this article is read by those responsible for school health of the country or, in latter case, by the very Minister of Education. With so many reforms in education, there is no way to get out, once and for all, a measure of time to finish with the problem of access for all children and young people to treatments of oral health. WANTED WILL BE MORE STUDIES TO MAKE UP THE lift THIS SITUATION?

Gerofil

43) Make beautiful smiles

In the office that occupies just 15 days, Sónia St. Joseph struggle every day to show that go to the dentist does not have to be seen as a punishment. Since very early that Sónia St. Joseph felt attracted by the area of health. Always imagined a job that it could help the next. Something that says get with dentistry.

Sónia St. Joseph, 24 years old, says is that "end the suffering, to help improve the quality of life of people" which gives him more pleasure in the profession who began exercising 15 days ago in a clinic in Vila Franca de Xira.

Since it is applied first to medicine, rapidly love for specialty dental, mainly by the "challenge plus" to win the confidence of the people. Because, as a young dentist, "people still have an old and outdated that dentistry is associated with pain."

Every day in the office Sónia St. Joseph tries to demystify the work of the dentist, fighting phobias resulting from bad experiences when the technology was not another ally of professionals. "The area has developed enormously. With the anesthesia today the patients no longer feel any pain, "guarantor.

Every the day the dentist medical divide in the achievement of things as simple the realization of in composite restorations. For those not understood, is the translation: extraction of teeth, removal of caries and placement of mass white and cleaning, respectively.

The extractions are the most pleasure gives Sónia. "For the adrenaline, because it requires more because it is irreversible, even if we achieve," he explains.

Despite only having entered the labour market for 15 days, Sónia St. Joseph account already with three years of specialization, most in the last clinic of the Faculty of Dental Medicine of the University of Porto. In its curriculum account yet with an internship of six months in a hospital in Hungary.

An "extremely enriching experience", both professional and personal. In Hungary contacted with another reality of the world of dentistry, not so much in terms of technology, but with regard to assistance to citizens.

The state aid financially in all that is connected to dentistry, contrary to what is happening in Portugal, go to the dentist is almost a luxury, as the public health service falls short of the needs of the population.

To facilitate contact with the patients, Sónia St. Joseph had to learn some Hungarian, and that "nothing was not easy." The young dentist to even the episode in which a patient that meeting a month ago also started to learn a few words in English. "I was very moved", refers.

Despite classes in Hungarian, there were some moments in the case to have effect "frustrated" that you can not speak. As in most complicated situations of the forum cancer at the mouth in which only had the look and gestures to convey some comfort and safety to patients.

Also in Portugal, compared with Hungary, says there is a long way still to go in terms of awareness of the population to the importance of oral health. " Sónia stresses that often people do not know that oral health affects other diseases, making it even more important the care of the mouth.

So I would leave some advice: always brush your teeth after the main meal, not use hard brushes and toothpaste prefer appropriate; using dental wire and bochechar often. Recommends still one to two trips to the dentist a year to improve the oral health of the Portuguese.
O Mirante online (Sara Cardoso)

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The practice of medicine, oral health seen by a professional:

- What is happening in Hungary fully demonstrates that countries with similar levels of development or under the de Portugal may know and invest their resources in public health, allowing their citizens primary health care, for now, is what is says article - in Portugal, go to the dentist is almost a luxury, as the public health service falls short of the needs of the population;

- "In Portugal, compared with Hungary, says there is still a long way to go with regard to the awareness of the population to the importance of oral health. Sónia stresses that often people do not know that oral health affects other diseases, making it even more important the care with the mouth "- are very well aware that the ministries of Health and Education in Portugal; simply its deep red tape and lack strategies to combat the real issues which should tackle, in terms of health, push us to a country typical "every man for himself", in what is generally more to achieve each way to have access to private ($$$$$$ $ $ $ $…., therefore money to pay) to be really successful. Poor, who is born already poor because, in the area of health, discrimination by now, and many in certain situations, logo appears at birth.
Hence the need to give back very deep in the current situation in Portugal, namely at the level of oral health (we must also bring in the quality that is given to citizens of other countries).
WHY WE ARE TO A COUNTRY OF THE EUROPEAN UNION, AS IS HOW THE HUNGARY.
Gerofil

42) Book that discusses the microbiology in dentistry is launched by teachers at UNICAMP

Helping the microbiological diagnosis through observation and interpretation of images is the aim of new book launched by teachers José Francisco Höfling and Reginaldo Gonçalves, the area of microbiology and immunology at the Faculty of Dentistry of Piracicaba (FOP), the State University of Campinas ( Unicamp).
"I believe that this manual can contribute much to the knowledge of students," said Höfling. The work Manual of light optical microscopy in microbiology, fungal and bacterial morphology is dedicated to students from graduate, post-graduate and expertise. According to the authors, the guide can help microbiological researchers mainly in the sector of health in general, involving courses in biological sciences and medicine.
The book is available to interested in two manuals. The book, more than 200 pages, is dedicated to practical activities of the discipline of microbiology, especially for dentistry. The work also brings an attachment with proposals for alternative activities to be associated with optical microscopy.

More information: (19) 3412-5322. [Fapesp]
Universia Brasil

41) Germany, a real example

Report on the health of Germans by the Robert Koch Institute shows that decreases the consumption of alcohol and tobacco. Average life expectancy of Germans grew three years since 1990.

The report pointed to a number of curiosities, such as the fact that the teething child be one of the most sound at international level. Also the concentration of doctors, dentists and hospital beds is much higher than in the neighbouring countries.

DW

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It is seen that there is a direct relationship between the number of professionals in the area of oral health and oral health of the people.

Gerofil