Solidarity Dentist: dental treatment for low-income people

The SIdP project, created by Public Health Service, is already offered to people who have low income and need dental treatment.

Before the onset of the pandemic, the underserved population had only 5% of covered dental services. During the pandemic, that number dropped even further, which, in most cases, led people to stop receiving healthcare in this sector.

In today's article, we'll talk more about the SIdP project and access for low-income people to the well-known Solidarity Dentist. Check out.

Solidarity Dentist Project

The SIdP Onlus foundation, together with the Italian Society of Periodontology and Implantology and the San Vincenzo de Paoli Society, idealized and created on April 30, 2022, the project entitled The Solidarity Dentist (Il Dentita Solidal).

The program created aims to assist families who are in a situation of social vulnerability, helping them to have access to complete dental treatment.

The initiative for creating the project was world health day, which is celebrated on April 7, where he was accompanied by 250 dental hygienists and SIdP dentists, who dedicate at least one hour a week to dental treatments and exams for the entire low-income population that participates in the program.

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A Società San Vincenzo De Paoli, performs the identification of people who need care and monitors throughout the process, playing a key role in this project.

A little more about the SIdP Onlus Foundation Project

The president of the SIdP Onlus Foundation, Mario Aimenti, declared about the project Solidarity Dentist: “In addition to intervening in an emergency context to allow urgent treatment, it aims to raise awareness of the importance of prevention and correct oral hygiene practices”.

“In Italy, dental services are essentially private with minimal coverage by the public system and consequent economic barriers for citizens”, he concluded.

Data collected from Istato 2019 shows that one in two Italian citizens attend the dentist. Still in these data, it is indicated that, among the population in situation of poverty, that number is only 14% and among citizens in extreme poverty, the percentage goes to 9.

“In addition, among foreign citizens, access to dental care is less than half that of Italians and the pandemic has exacerbated these inequalities,” said Aimetti.

In this way, the Solidarity Dentist project aims to minimize the impacts of these social differences and the consequences that the pandemic has brought, thus providing a more dignified health for the population.