NO RIGHT TO PRACTISE

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 47, 23 August 1930, Page 14

NO RIGHT TO PRACTISE

DENTAL MECHANIC FINED (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) HAMILTON, 22nd August. A case of interest to the dental profession was heard in the Hamilton Court to-day, when J. L. Shannon, dental mechanic, of Hamilton, was charged with practising without a licence and with issuing a description to the public that be was practising dentistry. The evidence on the second charge showed that the defendant inserted an advertisement in a local newspaper under the caption of "dentistry," claiming to do all classes of dental work. After expert and other evidence,'had been heard, the Magistrate held that the defendant had committed a breach, and was doing-dental work for which he was not qualified. On the other charge the evidence showed that Walter Ellis Scott, farmer, went to the defendant for an upper set of teeth. Shannon had an impression and fitting taken by a local qualified dentist, who placed the teeth in Scott's mouth after the final fitting. The Magistrate held that the defendant had not confined himself to mechanical work. The primary function of the Act was to protect the public, not the profession. The defendant was fined >&" on the second count, and ordered to pay costs, &G 9s, on both charges.