Tho extent of the work that being done by tho Now Zealand Dental Service in tlio military camps is illustrated by the figures for tho month of September. Colonel Hunter, Director of Dental Services, told a Dominion - reporter last week that during the month the staffs at Trentham and - Featherston camps performed the following work: 6102 fillings, 702 dressings, 282. scaling operations, 614 dentures provided, 1553 extractions, and 139 dentures repaired and remodelled. Theaim of the dental officers is to lend every soldier to the front "sound-, mouthed," and the majority of the men appear to' require the attention of the dental Officers at the camps.-
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2897, 9 October 1916, Page 2
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