DENTAL CLINICS IN SCHOOLS

Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26220, 18 September 1950, Page 8

DENTAL CLINICS IN SCHOOLS

“N.Z. A MODEL FOR WORLD”

(New Zealand Press Association) AUCKLAND, September 16. Preventive dentistry was a proper sphere for Government work, said two leading Australian dentists who reached Auckland by flying-boat from Sydney to-day. They are Dr. J. V. Hall, president of the Australian Dental Association, and Mr N. E. Edney, treasurer of the association, both of Sydney. They are accompanied by their wives,’ and have come to New Zealand to attend the New Zealand Dental Association’s annual conference at Rotorua next week. They will meet New Zealand dental men who were in Australia last month for a conference there, and will also see something of New Zealand. Mr Edney said New Zealand could be proud of its school dental nurse scheme, which had been operating about twenty-five years. Here in New Zealand was a model for the world. New Zealand’s dental problems were shared by Australia.

“The teeth of many Australians are far from excellent,” he said: “but. thanks to the last war, we have hopes of improvement soon. Many men in the armed forces received treatment which improved their teeth, and made them more dentally minded.”