UNREGISTERED DENTIST.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 33, 9 February 1928, Page 19

UNREGISTERED DENTIST.

PRACTISING IN WELLINGTON.

HOME REGISTRATION INSUFFICIENT.

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. In a reserved judgment to-day Mr. Page, S.M., convicted Samuel M. Cohen, proprietor of the Rapid Dental Repair Service on a charge of practising dentistry without being registered. Defendant, who was a registered dentist in the Old Country, came to New Zealand in 1923, said Mr. Page, but had succeeded in passing examinations to enable him to be registered here. The Act provided that the practice of dentistry shall be deemed to include the performance of any operation and the piving of any treatment, advice, cr attendance usually performed or given by dentists. In his view the making of or the mere repairing of artificial teeth unassociated with any attendance °n a patient would not come within the weaning of the Act. The Act was not directed at mechanical or technical work °f repairing artificial teeth, but at the performing of an operation, or giving °f advice, treatment, or attendance. In the present case defendant examined the patient's mouth, took two impressions, and, having repaired the teeth, fitted them in. Defendant was fined £5 and later the fine was fixed at £5 1/, to permit an appeal, security being fixed *t £10 io/. J 6