INCOMPLETE RECORDS
Crash Victims’ Dental Work (N.Z. Press Association) DUNEDIN, July 21. Dentists are taken to task for their failure to keep complete records in the latest issue of the “New Zealand Dental Journal.”
“The importance of complete dental records cannot be over-emphasised,” a Hamilton dentist, Mr E. Blair, says in an article on the identification of casualties in the Kaimai air disaster. ’■ The dental records received from most practitioners during this investigation were “appallingly incomplete,” he said. Because of its importance to forensic dentistry no practitioner should shirk the responsibility of recording details of individual teeth, Mr Blair said.
“This particularly applies now that air travel is becoming so popular in New Zealand.”
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30499, 22 July 1964, Page 3
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114INCOMPLETE RECORDS Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30499, 22 July 1964, Page 3
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