CHILDREN’S TEETH.

Evening Star, Issue 19776, 28 January 1928, Page 23

CHILDREN’S TEETH.

TO THE EDITOR Sir, —Regarding Children's Teeth,’ in Tuesday’s ‘ Star,’ Dr PickerilTs contribution is certainly wide of the mark. “My own investigations and those of others have shown that there are four factors at work—but even Dr Pickerill, in spite of his investigations, could not say the necessity for fillings and extractions had been done away with. Colonel Hunter’s statement that “ the dental nurses were even better fitted for treating young children than the average freshly-qualified student from a dental school ” may be conceded as correct, but that these nurses should be called on to decide what is required to be done in a child’s mouth is almost criminal. The most difficult problems on dentistry are with the child. In any constitutional work, say. building, an architect decides what is best to be done, but his craftsmen, if well trained, would beat him hollow, say, at laying bricks. Some of the success of the scheme seems to me and many of my confreres to consist in preventing toothache at any cost, although causing, may be, serious mischief later. Surely this is on a par with the oldfashioned baby's 4< dummy. 1 Given supervision the scheme, as 1 know these girls are very well trained, should prove very valuable. —1 am, etc., Frank Armstrong. January ‘-’6-