NOT REGISTERED

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 274, 9 February 1928, Page 12

NOT REGISTERED

DENTIST FINED A WELLINGTON CASE Press Association. WELLINGTON, Wednesday g In a reserved judgment given to-day» Mr. Page, S.M., convicted Samuel Cohen, proprietor of the Rapid Dental Repair Service, on a charge of P**®' tising dentistry without being registered. _ , “Defendant who was a register®* dentist in England came to New Zealand in 1923,” said Mr. Page, “bat &*® not succeeded in passing examination to enable him to be registered here. To* Act provided that the practice of den- IS tistry shall be deemed to JjJ? performance of any operation and tn© giving of apy treatment, advice or tendance usually performed or g» veß by dentists.” In his view the making or mere r** pairing of artificial teeth unassociate® with any attendance on a patient not come within the meaning of to© Act. The Act was not directed at t»» mechanical or technical work of r®P*~' ing artificial teeth, but at the ing of an operation or the giving advice, treatment or attendance. _ In the present case defendant examined the patient's mouth and W®J two impressions, and having r*P*J*’J the teeth fitted them in. Defend*"* Ig was fined £5, which was later £5 Is to permit of an appeal, for which was fixed at JBIO