WOMEN AND DENTISTRY.

Northern Advocate, 29 December 1934, Page 4

WOMEN AND DENTISTRY.

That children of three years of age and less come happily to a woman dentist to have their teeth “mended,” because they have instinctively less fear of a woman than a man, was maintained by Dr. Elsie Wearne, an Australian dentist, in a recent address on the place of women in dentistry. The majority of women who have taken up dentistry, said Dr. Wearn, have devoted a great deal of time to welfare work, particularly among women and children. Skill, rather than strength, is required in extractions, commented Dr. Wearn, who added that never in all her experience in private practice or clinical work, had she found any tooth she could not extract. Emphasising the error of the common belief that it is a waste of time filling children’s first teeth. Dr. Wearn maintained that by keeping the first teeth, some of which should remain till 11 years of age, the second teeth could not crowd over, and so spoil the shape of the jaw.