DENTAL OPERATIONS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 11856, 20 May 1909, Page 5

DENTAL OPERATIONS.

, FINES UNDER 1908 ACT. (Special to Herald.) ■DUNEDIN, this day. • Two cases of interest to dentists Avere heard before Mr Kenrick, S^.M.-, at Tapanui, under the Dentisls Act of 1908. It is provided that m case of an association carrying on the practice of dentistry the names of dentists forming such an, association shall be legibilv and conspicuously fixed to the outside of their business premises. Defendant, John O'Neill, was proceeded against on the ground of having exhibited' a card of the Ot-ago and Southland Painless Dental Company, m which fcnis proviso was noi. observed, hje being at the time .not re' J . gistercd under the- Act. He pleaded, guilty, and; on his behalf it was put forward by Mr Miller that after a Ideal constable luuJ drawn! defendant's attention to the omission the name was put on. | The Magistrate said it avos .very necessary- that the law should be complied Ayith, «o that the public might jmow >vith whom they were dealirig, Mitt he convicted defendant and lined him £3 undt costs £1 18s. O'Neill was also procebded. n againßt for having' unlawfully 'porfbrnted a dental ■ope.i'ation, extracting certain teeth, he not being a qualified dentist. 'Defendant admitted having extracted teeth, but saidi that he had not charged a f,ec. for it, and therefore came under the eseriiptioiis. provided for m itheActi namely, that a'peraon who merely extracted teeth did not require iov be registered. It was, however, prov;fedj.;thttt i ;i i fl 1 addition to the extracion of jteeth A driuj \vas used for the purpose ot iivw»the gums, Tl^& Magistrate hold ; tlih-t tRi6 Vias a denffiftl opeftttkfin lwithiaS*Sli4 v psianing of tho Act, and cort{rictea:d«eri3tint, finiu'g him £3 and costs £2 1&.- ■■'.-.'