Meeting with the president of the Portuguese opposition party

March 16, 2011

Last Monday, 7th March, I met with Dr. Pedro Passos Coelho, President of the Portuguese Social Democrat Party (PSD) and leader of the opposition in Portugal.

The meeting was very fruitful. We approached oral health in general, with updated data, and in particular the current professional situation of the Portuguese dentists and the Portuguese NHS.

I also had the opportunity to introduce the FDI World Dental Federation and to give him a general vision of dentistry around the world.

The PSD President has shown a strong knowledge of the health sector, particularly in issues such as the sustainability of the Portuguese NHS I make a very positive assessment of this meeting.

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University of Porto one hundredth birthday

December 6, 2010

Universidade do Porto

The University of Porto, where I got my dental medicine degree 23 years ago, is approaching its one hundredth birthday, having been formally founded on 22nd March 1911, immediately after the Portuguese Republic was established.

This is a very important date for the city of Oporto, where I live and I exercise my work as a dentist. Personally, if the date was already very important to me, as former student, has now become even more after being invited to join the Honorary Committee of the centennial of the University of Porto.

Today, the University of Porto has fourteen faculties and one post-graduate school.

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Futuro do SNS

September 27, 2010

O Serviço Nacional de Saúde e a medicina dentária em Portugal discutidos numa entrevista minha à Económico TV, a 21 de Setembro de 2010.

For English speakers: Television interview about the National Health Service and dentistry in Portugal.

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Conference: «Patient safety versus system’s sustainability»

June 5, 2010

Last 2 June, in Lisbon, the Presidents of the four Portuguese Health Professional Regulators (Dentists, Physicians, Pharmacists and Nurses) made a joint organization of a Conference dedicated to the subject «Patient safety versus system’s sustainability». The Health Minister was present at the conference opening.

Patient safety conference

Patient Safety was one of the important issues approached. I stated that one of the prerequisites for «Patient Safety» is the notion of quality at the service of patient safety. There has been a «simplification» of the definition of quality in Health, focused exclusively in the outcomes and neglecting the «structures and processes».

Patient expectations and behaviours are very important aspects that should be taken into account. Healthcare should be centred on the patients and the strengthening of this empowering is a key aspect in a modern health system. Read the rest of this entry »

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“A ADSE não actualiza as tabelas há 19 anos”

June 1, 2010

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Alguns destaques da entrevista que o Jornal i publicou hoje comigo, sobre a medicina dentária em Portugal:

“Está desde 2001 à frente da Ordem dos Médicos Dentistas, área que entrou tarde no comboio na saúde, mas – diz – de forma inteligente. Vai propor num encontro das Ordens de saúde esta quarta-feira em Lisboa que se altere a Constituição: o Serviço Nacional de Saúde não pode ser tendencialmente gratuito, como está escrito, e a auto-responsabilização dos doentes é essencial. Reduzir os numerus clausus das faculdades de Medicina Dentária é outro objectivo. Mas também há seguros e convenções como a ADSE a estrangular a classe.”

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Portuguese APMDH and SPOP Congress

May 25, 2010

Last May was fruitful in Congresses and Conferences, in Porto. It is with happiness that I am seeing oral health issues growing up at the national agenda. Oral healthcare Scientific Societies and/or Associations have been expanding in Portugal, giving us great contributions in specific areas.

Hereby, I would like to detach the 2nd Congress of Hospital Dentistry, organised by the Portuguese Hospital Dental Medicine and the 1st Iberian Paediatric Dentistry Meeting, co-organised by the Portuguese Society of Paediatric Dentistry and by the Spanish Society of Paediatric Dentistry, that was distinguished with the presence of the Secretary of Health, Dr. Manuel Pizarro.

Portuguese APMDH Congress

Round Table “Hospital dentistry” at the II Congress of Hospital Dentistry, 22 May 2010

1st Iberian Paediatric Dentistry Meeting

Opening ceremony of the 1st Iberian Paediatric Dentistry Meeting, 20 May 2010

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Rainstorm hits Portuguese island of Madeira

March 24, 2010

Portuguese Dentists helped in identifying victims

A Flood chaos of destruction and victims devastated the Portuguese Island of Madeira, last February 20. It was noticed in several international media, as you may already have read somewhere.

42 people have been killed in the rainstorm on the Portuguese island.

Search teams looked for victims amid debris, after mud and rock swept through Madeira. Because that, it was very difficult the recognition of some of the victims.

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New statutory board OMD 2010/2012

January 15, 2010
New statutory board

New statutory board. From left to right, João Aquino, Orlando Monteiro da Silva, Manuel Pizarro, João Caramês, Paulo Melo, Ana Cristina Mano Azul (consult statutory board).

More than one hundred dentists appeared for the ceremony of inauguration of term of the statutory board of the Portuguese Dental Association (OMD) for the triennium 2010/2012, which took place in Palácio Foz in Lisbon.

The new board presented the following as main goals and guidelines for the three-year term it now begins:

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Annual Meeting of the Portuguese Dental Association

November 14, 2008

congresso2008Dear Colleagues, I would like to invite you for the 17th Annual Meeting of the Portuguese Dental Association that will be held from 20 till 22 November, in Porto.

It will be a Congress only with Portuguese speakers in order to mark the tenth anniversary of the Portuguese Dental Association that we celebrate with proud this year.

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