Tuesday, May 09, 2006
What sort of a beautiful society do we have when healthy teeth are considered to be a not obligatory extra?
Diseases of teeth and gums actually cause harmful pathogens to enter the bloodstream and invade the body and play vital organs and this is proving to be a grave problem for those who are ill or frail, and especially for that undergoing heart surgery.
A Medicare rebated consultation would get the patient some antibiotics, painkillers and also blood tests but not a tooth extraction that is causing their illness.
Recent research shows that large numbers of elderly people are really suffering from malnutrition, and while some of this might be due to poor diet, researchers recommended that federally funded dental services need to be reinstated, as a priority.
Of course the Federal Government would respond by saying the states must take care of this now that they have the GST money.
There seems not to be effective public dental care in Wodonga, and in Albury the public dental clinic almost ceased operation when the only part-time dentist went on leave.
NSW lays claim to having a superior economy than Singapore and Malaysia and numerous times that of New Zealand and yet the elderly, ill, disabled and psychiatric patients are ignored.
There is something barbaric about this approach to the allocation of resources.
Diseases of teeth and gums actually cause harmful pathogens to enter the bloodstream and invade the body and play vital organs and this is proving to be a grave problem for those who are ill or frail, and especially for that undergoing heart surgery.
A Medicare rebated consultation would get the patient some antibiotics, painkillers and also blood tests but not a tooth extraction that is causing their illness.
Recent research shows that large numbers of elderly people are really suffering from malnutrition, and while some of this might be due to poor diet, researchers recommended that federally funded dental services need to be reinstated, as a priority.
Of course the Federal Government would respond by saying the states must take care of this now that they have the GST money.
There seems not to be effective public dental care in Wodonga, and in Albury the public dental clinic almost ceased operation when the only part-time dentist went on leave.
NSW lays claim to having a superior economy than Singapore and Malaysia and numerous times that of New Zealand and yet the elderly, ill, disabled and psychiatric patients are ignored.
There is something barbaric about this approach to the allocation of resources.
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