DIRECTOR OF DENTISTRY.

Press, Volume LVI, Issue 16848, 31 May 1920, Page 6

DIRECTOR OF DENTISTRY.

COL. HUNTER REAPPOINTED.

Colonel T. A. Hunter, formerly of Dunedin, has boon reappointed chief dontal officer to take charge of the Education Department's school dental scheme. He recently resigned owing to •difficulty duo _to the New Zealand Dontal Association executive not having been consulted over his appointment. Further applications were culled under modifiedcoriditions, and Colonel Hunter has again obtained the position. Ten or twelve assistants are to be appointed in a few days, so that the Department can immediately xtndertako dental operative work among children. The intention is to employ five dentists at the chief centres, and five travelling among country schools. Sufficient motor ambulances wero purchased after tho war in England for use ob travelling dental surgeries, and it is intended by the Minister for Education, who has taken keen interest in evolving details of this progressive scheme, that a dentist, upon examining the teeth of children in remote schools, will remain at that place until tho most serious defects are remedied. A large quantity of equipment and material left over from the Expeditionary Force dental scheme has been taken over by tho Education Department, thus enabling the scheme to mako an economical start.

It is intended to adopt an efficient method of charting the dental condition of children evolved by the New Zealand Dental Gorps during the war. As the scheme develops it is probable thai a larger number of dentists will be ongaged.