CHILDREN’S TEETH.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XII, Issue 85, 20 March 1922, Page 7

CHILDREN’S TEETH.

DENTAL NURSES AT WORK. TRAINING MAKING GOOD PROGRESS. The thirty young women who are being trained to attend to tho teeth of school children are reported to bo making excellent progress at tho departmental dental clinic in ‘Wellington. They began their training last year, and they are now in their second year’s course. They will be ready next oear to take up their work in the schools of the Dominion, whore, they will give simple treatment to the children who need it. In a report to tho Minister of Health (Mr Parr), the Director of Dental Hygiene (Mr T. A. Hunter) states that all day long women come with very young children to have their teeth seen to at tho clinic, and the work done by tho young women dentists could bo gauged by* the fact that during the month of February the

attendance amounted to no fewer than 634. Over a thousand operations were performed, made up as follow: Fillings in permanent teeth 118, fillings in temporary teeth 74. silver treatment and cleaning 316, extractions of permanent teeth 83, extractions of temporary teeth 419. In addition to the above work three schools had been visited, and 507 children had had their teeth examined and charted. The extraction of 500 teeth had been the means of eliminating so much sepsis that the child not cmfwyushrdluhrdluhrdluhrdl value/ of this alono to tho developing child could not bo very well overestimated. During the recent medical conference numbers of doctors visited the clinic, and expressed themselves highly gratified at the excellent work being done by these dental nurses and their approval of tho general scheme that was being worked out.