2023-11-15 10:13:00
Poverty, Italians and giving up the dentist. Impressive numbers
In Italia people’s economic difficulties are increasing and the data speaks of a growing poverty. The government’s decision to cut funding certainly doesn’t help public healtha choice that increasingly forces people in economic difficulty to make decisions waivers to be able to cure serious illnesses. Among these stands out that of no longer going to dentist. Every year – we read in La Stampa – they are about 5 million people who give up going to the dentist putting it this way not only the smile is at risk but your own salute. Because as documented l’Oms the oral diseases when you don’t care they increase the risk of getting diabetes, cardiovascular diseases and tumors fivefold, or to have complications when you are already sick. The problem is that if public health is falling behind for all other treatments, it has never even appeared in our mouths. Just look at the spending data: 8 billion a year the one supported out of their own pockets by the Italians, just 85 million, 0.07% of the totalthat cover dal National Health Service. And many give up.
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Maybe – continues La Stampa – doing as Denis who says: “I learned to speak without showing the gaps in my mouth, but I practically don’t chew anymore. I would need several implants because an illness caused my teeth to split, but it takes 20 thousand euros. Figures I can’t afford“. So many choose two alternatives. Both are dangerous. The first is to entrust themselves, consciously or not, in the hands of dental technicians or in any case fake dentists who charge rock-bottom prices without having a degree. A submerged population of 15 thousand illegal workers versus 60 thousand “regular” ones. The second alternative is go for treatment abroad. They do it 50 thousand Italians every year, for a total of 6 million since this tourism of cheap dental care began. The most popular countries are Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, Romania and Albania. Pietro Felice, director of oral surgery in Bologna: “Fast operations in foreign countries are a danger. It is not uncommon for the implant to be lost“.
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