Community Dental Health

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Cover Date:
December 2017
Print ISSN:
0265 539X
Electronic ISSN:
2515-1746
Vol:
34
Issue:
4

Correspondence to Editor

Correspondence

Dear Sir,
I feel obliged to comment on the article by Calado et al., “Caries prevalence and treatment needs in the young
people in Portugal: the third national study” published in Community Dental Health (2017) 34, 107-111. This was
not the third national study but the sixth. Three National Pathfinder Surveys were completed in 1983/4, 1989/90
and 1998/9 after proposals by WHO to our General Director of Health (Möller and Marthaler, 1985; Almeida
et al., 1990a,b; Almeida et al., 1991; Almeida, 1997;Almeida, et al., 2002; Almeida et al., 2003).
It is important that we remember the members of WHO that supported the studies (Dr. David Barmes, Dr.
Ingolf Möller, Prof. Thomas Marthaller and Prof PaulErik Petersen), Prof Clarimundo Emílio, who directed
the first study and the many teachers, children, adults and schools that participated in the first three surveys.
These three studies have implications for the conclusions of Calado et al., that will be analyzed in a Portuguese publication.
César Mexia de Almeida
(Professor in Preventive and Community Dental Medicine,
Chief Dental Officer 2004-6. Retired)

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