DENTAL ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 201, 20 May 1920, Page 6

DENTAL ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE

-.«-, W ■^,-.^„: i . .-■» —— conference of the New Zealand Dental Association was conuniiea yesterday... : .'.\. . TheVepor.t'df'tho executive, which was aoopjeo!-showed an increasing memberWP-* n , d v a-substantial credit balance. A_ pamphlet published under the auspices ot,.the association, dealing with the care teeth, had been revised,, and was being reprinted by tho Governannt for general distribution. The report mentioned that durinjr tho operation of the Military Service Act, over one hundred appeals were dealt with by the.executive, according to tho arrangement'made with the Minister of JJetence,-and the executive was.grati-hed-to be. able to report that the military service boards granted all its claims ior exemption-. following the reading of n paper by ll r - I: Armstrong- upon "Our Duty.emd the .Mate, it was resolved:- "That this association advocates a division of dental hygiene being established under tho Minister of-Health, and that the director shall _be a dentist." ' ; During the afternoon, clinical demonstrations were given by Messrs. G W Wright J. N. Eishworth, and Nelson Mitchell, and an interesting exhibit of mechanical work in v dentistry by students .of the Otago Dental School was explained by Mr. 0. V. Davies. There was an important discussion upon a paper by Mr. Richmond Dunn, "Public .Health and State Dentistry," among tho speakers being Dr. E. H. Wilkins, chief medical officer, of the Department of Education. IB was unoni- ■ m'ously resolved at the conclusion: "That it be a recommendation of this conference to the incoming executive that a committee be sot up to review the present stato of scientific knowledge, and to discuss methods of dealing with the mouth."