DENTAL TREATMENT FOR OUT-PATIENTS

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2210, 24 July 1914, Page 5

DENTAL TREATMENT FOR OUT-PATIENTS

NEW DEPARTMENT AT WELLINGTON HOSPITAL. At' yesterday's' meeting of' the Wellington Hospital and . Charitable Aid Board,, the Hospital Committee, which has had the matter of the establishment of a dental branch in connection ivith the out-patients' department lof the general Hospital, recommended that the proposed dental branch of the outpatients' department- should be established forthwith.- A qualified operativejind mechanical dental surgeon (registered), who will undertake to do all the necessary mechanical work, bo appointed at a salary to commence at £300 per annum, the surgeon to be under the control of the Medical Superintendent, to whom he must refer all professional matters of doubt. It was further suggested that the honorary; dental, staff comprising not less than 20 members should be recommended from time to time bv the. Wellington Branch of the Dental Association, for appointment by the board, and that all patients for treatment must present to the secretary a recommendation fronra registered .denial surgeon, or from tlio Medical Superintendent.

.The committee recommended that the of fees be as follow:—

Consultation, 2s. 6d.; extraction local anaesthetic, Is.amalgam fillings, 2s. 6d. to 3s. Gd.'; cement fillings, 2s. 6d.; gas extractions, 2s. 6d.; visits ill connection with abscess cases, etc., 2s'. 6d.; continuous gas or heavy anaesthetic, 10s. 6d.; vulcanite work, first tooth, 7s. 6d.; every additional tooth, 2s!full upper or lower vulcanite dentures, £2 2s. each. ... .

' The above fees are to be payable immediately'each filling o'r other operation is completed,, and _ that the fees may be. remitted 'according' to • the circumstances of the patient by the Hospital Committee of the board. The cost of the' equipment for the department is 'estimated at £250, and the estimated amount required for material for the first year is estimated at £50. The report was adopted. ...