Improved dental care planned for Poles
PR dla Zagranicy
Paweł Kononczuk
22.06.2017 07:30
Poland’s health ministry is planning to improve children’s access to dental care, with experts warning that nine in ten of the country’s 18-year-olds have tooth decay.
Tadeusz Mytnik. Photo: Ja Fryta from Strzegom (Tadeusz Mytnik Uploaded by Dudek1337), CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
The average 18-year-old in Poland has cavities in seven teeth.
Milena Kruszewska, a health ministry spokeswoman, said possible ways of improving dental care included setting up surgeries in schools. Details of government plans are to be revealed next week.
Meanwhile, in a separate initiative, Polish former cycling champion Tadeusz Mytnik will describe his experience of regaining a full set of teeth - and improving his quality of life - after a traumatic accident over four decades ago.
Mytnik, who won a silver medal at the 1976 summer Olympics as well as two gold and one bronze medal at the world championships in 1973, 1975 and 1977, will be the star guest of an event at the Military Academy of Medicine Clinical Hospital in the central city of Łódź on 1 July.
Local residents who attend the meeting will be offered a free consultation with an experienced dentist specializing in implantology.
The meeting will be attended by specialists who carried out a radical course of implant treatment which resulted in Mytnik regaining a full set of teeth after over 40 years.
(pk)