{"id":486,"date":"2018-12-15T14:20:03","date_gmt":"2018-12-15T14:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dentalpro.pt\/en\/?p=486"},"modified":"2019-01-21T14:22:01","modified_gmt":"2019-01-21T14:22:01","slug":"10-years-of-dental-cheques-the-opinion-of-mexia-de-almeida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dentalpro.pt\/en\/2018\/12\/15\/10-years-of-dental-cheques-the-opinion-of-mexia-de-almeida\/","title":{"rendered":"10 years of dental cheques: the opinion of Mexia de Almeida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\">In an article published in the Health Policy, &#8220;Ten years since the 2008 introduction of dental vouchers in the Portuguese NHS&#8221;, the authors &#8211; Jorge Sim\u00f5es and collaborators &#8211; present the impact of access to dental treatments provided by the introduction of the dental-cheque in 2008.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\">C\u00e9sar Mexia de Almeida, senior professor of Preventive and Community Dental Medicine in the Faculty of Dental Medicine at the University of Lisbon, comments on some conclusions and proposes, as important measures for the progress of oral health of the Portuguese, &#8220;the evaluation by multivariate analysis of the regression of the effect of fissure sealants on the prevalence and severity of the cavities in young people observed in studies on prevalence of oral diseases of the Directorate-General for Health, as well as the selection of the National Coordinator for the Promotion of Oral Health and national representative in the European Council of Chief Dental Officers, through a public competition open to oral health professionals with post-graduation in preventive and community oral health and also the introduction of annual oral observation of all young people attending public kindergartens or IPSS and all public school levels, particularly in disadvantaged areas&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an article published in the Health Policy, &#8220;Ten years since the 2008 introduction of dental vouchers in the Portuguese NHS&#8221;, the authors &#8211; Jorge Sim\u00f5es and collaborators &#8211; present the impact of access to dental treatments provided by the introduction of the dental-cheque in 2008.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":487,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dentalpro.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486"}],"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=486"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dentalpro.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":488,"href":"https:\/\/dentalpro.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486\/revisions\/488"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dentalpro.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dentalpro.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dentalpro.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dentalpro.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}