FREE DENTAL CLINICS
Sir, —I notice that Sir Joseph Ward is extending the free dental clinics to the secondary schools. I consider this a great injustice to the members of the dental profession, and an interference with their rights. These men have spent much money and many years in qualifying for their profession, and to allow girls with a few months’ training to practice on the school children is very unfair. Not only that, but the dentist has to pay for this work in taxation. Then the Wellington Hospital is attending to thousands of patients, many of whom can well afford to pay. Is it intended to eliminate the private practitioner? The dentists’ expenses are very heavy, what with rent, salaries, and other incidentals, and it will not be long before a number of them will be amongst the unemployed,, if this unfair competition is allowed to continue. It is all very well to say there is plenty of work for them to do. but having been employed by a few dentists I can assert that many dentists are greatly troubled to make both ends meet T am. etc., DENTIST’S ASSISTANT. Wellington, April 19.
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Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 175, 20 April 1929, Page 11
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194FREE DENTAL CLINICS Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 175, 20 April 1929, Page 11
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