STATE DENTAL SERVICE.

Press, Volume LVI, Issue 16884, 12 July 1920, Page 2

STATE DENTAL SERVICE.

' Tho wintry weather unfortunately affected. I tho attendance at the Workers-' Educational Association's rooms on Saturday night, when a lecture on "An Efficient Stite Dental Service" was given by Sir St. John, a member of tlio New Zealand Dentil Aosocialioh. The lecturer pointed out that from 96 to 93 per cent, of civilis:d peoples were a fleeted with ilontal disease, the timible being caused by unnatural food dirts, tlio mc'.hod of Xlreparation of e-ers-n'- being mostly to blame Tor.the reason that that method involved the elimination o! Nature's toothbrush. Hence this problem was largely one of prevention, and that would never come about until tho present methods of foc-d preparation were largely No artificial substitute of Nature's d -vices to- keep tho teeth free from decay were possible. He 6trongly urged that when the projected State Dent-al Service wa>i established,' it should be in -all directions and, above* all, should be administered by no no hut competent practitioners. Tit? Dental Association, against their own individual interests, were prepared to give the schema every support, for nobody more than a dc-ntis-t re-og-nised the immensity of the probl-m, and the necessity for a thoroughly efficient schema to deal with it.