SHORTAGE OF DENTISTS

Evening Star, Issue 16991, 13 March 1919, Page 1

SHORTAGE OF DENTISTS

j Tberp is a serious shortage of qualified | dental practitioners in the Uni lad Kingdom, : and few students are now entering for llie | four-years’ oonr-e. At the British Med cal : Association, 19 Hanover square, a represcuj tative of the 'Daily Mail’ was informed tint out of 5,000 denusts registered with the I British Medical Council only 3,700 arc now ( practising in the United Kingdom; 300 dea- ■ ! lists t>re practising in the Army, 150 working as doctors in the 8.A..M.C., 40 as dentists ir. the E..A.F.. and 50 ;n the N&vv. ia certain mining districts in South Walt s' there i* only one qualified dentist for 50.000 people. In many country districts there is no dentist, to look after the children's h<-aJ-fc i A West End dentist said that he and toai y i of his colleagues are so busv that ihev hooking appointments months ahead, and's 1 silting lasts a few minutes only instead ’ the customary half-hour. Before the wsir 1-000 students annually attended the d«n>td schools and colleges. To-day there are onJv <soo only, including 50 women. Five hundred part '"ally trained students are serving with the forces, not having been raven the pre- ; vftdion granted to medical student*.