Question 5408 — health professions

Summary

Mr. Damien Maudet questions the Minister to the Minister of Labor, Health, Solidarity and Families, responsible for health and access to care, on the closure of the largest orthodontic practice in Haute-Vienne, located in Limoges. A decision which now leaves nearly 2,000 patients without a practitioner to continue their treatments. “We were never called, we learned of the closure of the office through the press. It is ashamed ! », denounces the mother of a patient in the press. Since the start of the week and the announcement of the total and definitive cessation of activity, parents have had to queue in front of the largest orthodontic office in Haute-Vienne to collect their children's files. There are now nearly 2,000 adolescents left without a solution to continue dental treatment. For good reason, after this closure, there will only be three orthodontists left in Limoges, which is largely insufficient given the number of patients to be distributed. “It’s catastrophic, I’ve been to all the offices in Limoges, none of them take me,” worries a mother on the networks. If the president of the Departmental Order of Dentists, Dominique Moreau-Pascal, assures that “the Order asked the office to inform its patients of the closure and to refer them to their dentist. Dentists and patients received the list of twelve practitioners in the department”, the parents remain distraught. “I haven't found any solution for my son, he would have to go to Bordeaux or La Rochelle to have an appointment. Those who have contacts have managed to rehome their kids, but that doesn’t amount to many people, I think.” If the situation in Limoges is very worrying, it reflects a lack demand from dentists and more particularly orthodontists, in all territories. From Mayenne to Calvados, via Sarthe, patients are no longer able to have decent access to oral care. Some rural French areas have only five dentists per 100,000 inhabitants. Nationwide, the average is 57 dentists per 100,000 inhabitants, a figure 20% lower than the average European. Among these dentists, very few have chosen to continue their studies to become orthodontists and on average, only 57 qualified orthodontic interns graduate each year in France. The MP asks the Minister how it is possible that, due to a lack of sufficient orthodontists, only one of them ends up with 2,000 patients. In this emergency situation in Limoges, does he intend to urgently call a orthodontist to fill the crawl space that leaves this practice closed? He asks him if, for all French people, he finally really intends to put an end to the numerus clausus to train more dentists and therefore orthodontists, each year.

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