We are ready to fight obesity

    27th august 2009 ( News )

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    Dental Association interfering in the current debate about whether dentists should measure and weigh children to prevent obesity.

    "In Dental Society general, we find it natural that dentists are helping to prevent problems with obesity among children and adolescents. Dentists are in some municipalities already involved in multi-disciplinary counseling on diet and healthy living. This must be done in accordance with the nurse, doctors, dieticians. Dental Association does not want to take on the task that others think they have a better educational foundation to lift, "says a member of the Dental Association's executive committee Inge Marie Behrndtz in the magazine's conductor.

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    Public employees dentists in Denmark have greater job satisfaction than their colleagues in Sweden. It identifies the preliminary results of the Swedish research project "The good jobs" that is underway on. Despite the stress and other negative factors at work, preliminary figures so that 69 percent of Swedish and 77 percent of Danish dentists are experiencing job satisfaction high or very high extent.

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    Read more in Dentistry Magazine No. 10 2009 or www.tandlaegebladet.dk

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