{"id":483,"date":"2019-01-14T11:30:53","date_gmt":"2019-01-14T11:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dentalpro.pt\/en\/?p=483"},"modified":"2019-01-14T11:30:53","modified_gmt":"2019-01-14T11:30:53","slug":"number-of-people-in-portugal-that-dont-go-to-the-dentist-increases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dentalpro.pt\/en\/2019\/01\/14\/number-of-people-in-portugal-that-dont-go-to-the-dentist-increases\/","title":{"rendered":"Number of people in Portugal that don\u2019t go to the dentist increases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A national survey of oral health, conducted in 2018, revealed that the number of Portuguese people that don\u2019t go to the dentist is increasing. <\/p>\n<p>More than 30% of the population say that they never go to the dentist, or rather, they go only in the case of an emergency. This is an increase of 3% compared to last year, with 41% of Portugal not going to a dental consultation for more than a year.<\/p>\n<p>53.6% of those interviewed said they feel no need to go to dental appointments, a figure that has risen from 44.5% in the previous edition of the survey. 31.7% say they don\u2019t have the money to do so, a figure that contrasts with the 42.8% recorded last year. There is still 11.6% who consider that they have no dental problems.<\/p>\n<p>However, 70% of Portuguese people are already without at least one natural tooth (not counting wisdom teeth) and, of these, 35% have already lost six or more. There are still 8.2% of the Portuguese population who do not have any natural teeth left and among those, 55.5% do not have false teeth.<\/p>\n<p>These are some of the statistics from this national survey of oral health produced by the independent consultant QSP for the OMD (Ordem dos M\u00e9dicos Dentistas \u2013 Portuguese Dentists Association).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A national survey of oral health, conducted in 2018, revealed that the number of Portuguese people that don\u2019t go to the dentist is increasing. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":484,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dentalpro.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dentalpro.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dentalpro.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dentalpro.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dentalpro.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=483"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dentalpro.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":485,"href":"https:\/\/dentalpro.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483\/revisions\/485"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dentalpro.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dentalpro.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dentalpro.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dentalpro.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}