Free dental implants to patients from suburban hospital
It will be the first time this pilot called “Social Implants” takes place in a provincial hospital where dental service professionals selected eight patients to start treatment.
The program Provincial Health Division Oral Health Ministry aims to lower total edentulous persons who lack social work and are not likely to use conventional dentures.
These patients have atrophied lower jaw by bone resorption, caused as a result of the time they were without teeth and that afford this kind of treatment in the private sector demands an investment of between 3 and 4000 pesos.
“With this kind of initiatives aimed at erasing the old stigma of dental services in hospitals are only “tooth-puller #39 and turn them into repair of teeth, which are in good oral health care the beginning of a proper diet,” said Onativia Hospital Director, Francisco Grosso.
Over the past year, a total of 15 000 persons were treated in serving the dental hospital, and 30 percent of those consultations accounted for edentulous patients (who have infections and sickness in your gums).e14
The team of the Service, in charge of the dentist Adriana Marzano, is in the selection stage the eight patients who received the implant, who in the first part will undergo a preoperative clinical screening.
Experience in the Hospital Onativia be supervised by the Provincial Director of Oral Health Program, Nestor Chudnovsky, and the Director of Dental Health Programs, Jorge Mario Calcaterra.
“The idea of the Directorate is to replicate this program in other public hospitals in the province and to train professionals integrated dental services, “Calcaterra ahead.
initiative was launched last year in the towns of General Madariaga and Ostend, with a total of 13 patients, local health centers , who are already at the stage of placement of prostheses. (Telam) jab28/04/2010 18:39
May 4, 2010 7:06 am 
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