PREVENTIVE DENTISTRY.
A SERIOUS ALLEGATION. (By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) SYDNEY, Tuesday. .At the annual congress of the Australian Society of Dental Science, a paper was read deal tug with prevents e dentistry.
It contained the allegation that many dentists, rather than rectify small deficiencies in a patient’s mouth which might lead to serious results, preferred to allow'the progress of decay to proceed so that a source of future income might remain. At least 90 per cent oi dentists took no preventive measures where there were indications of future decay, knowing that the patient would present himself again within a' few months for a new filling to bo charged up.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 46, Issue 14260, 17 November 1920, Page 5
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