The reform of dental health care, which abolished school clinics and introduced private contracts with the Health Insurance Fund (FZO), led to twelve years of no data on the health of children's teeth.
As a guest in "Colors of the morning" on TV Vijesti, Dr. Danijela Subotić from the Polyclinic of the Clinical Center of Montenegro (KCCG) assessed that the situation is bad because there are no mandatory systematic examinations of children by dentists.
"Preventive dentistry has disappeared. The activities of children's dentists have been equated with the work of general dentists. In the past, systematic examinations were carried out every year in school clinics - first, third, fifth and seventh grades... We gave parents freedom and their personal responsibility when they to take the child to the dentist and how to take care of their health. And only a parent who takes care of the health of their teeth can also take care of the health of their children," said Subotić.
Subotić adds that parents know very little about maintaining the hygiene of children's teeth.
"It very often happens that parents ask when children should start brushing their teeth, and the children have all their milk teeth, which is late. A parent should start brushing a child's teeth from the moment his first tooth erupts. That one complete ignorance is what we with this association of ours that we founded, we are trying to solve it through some preventive programs in which we will include parents and teaching staff in schools and kindergartens. We need complete education," she said.
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