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avoid cavities: TEETH CLEANING AND SALT fluoridation

Prevent Cavities: TEETH CLEANING AND SALT fluoridation

One of the areas most neglected health care in our country's oral health. When you visit rural villages, draws attention to the dire state of the teeth of many of the peasants. When you talk to a woman from a Lima shantytown, is not unusual to find the concern for denture problems, which usually means a lot of pain and also a major economic effort for an extraction, as are root canals or crowns, for a poor family, too expensive. If for any middle-class us a toothache is something very unpleasant but very casual and remedied without too much difficulty for the poor of Peru, the problem of the teeth is really a pain.

However, the Peruvian government does little or nothing about it, particularly with regard to prevention. The first policy in this area is essential to teach children to brush their teeth. I have insisted on this with my daughters to make it a habit, but how can we expect the rural poor who have no usual or has been taught to brush their teeth, do so with your children? School breakfast programs should include the sharing of toothbrushes and toothpaste in poor areas, and teachers should ensure that after breakfast, all children in line to brush their teeth.

I just read that there is another simple and effective policy to prevent caries: fluoridate salt. For many years it is known that fluoride acts as protector of the teeth, and has invested in fluoridate drinking water. But of course, this only works where there is water and a company that can fluoridated, which is not If rural villages. On the other hand, a preventive health programs more successful in Peru has been to iodized salt, which has errradicado goiter. Salt, for universal consumption, is an ideal medium for enhancing micronutrients. In Jamaica, by copying the experience of Switzerland and France, fluoridated salt at a cost of 6 cents per person per year, which reduced to 80% of tooth decay in children. For every dollar spent, saved 250 for future costs of treatment. Would not be difficult to do something similar in Peru.

Oral health has long been a forgotten issue in our country with enormous economic and human suffering for many. There are policies prevention and cure and rehabilitation, which can be implemented without much difficulty. It just takes political will and decision.