UNREGISTERED DENTIST

Evening Star, Issue 19785, 8 February 1928, Page 5

UNREGISTERED DENTIST

A WELLINGTON CASE (Peb United Pkess Association.] WELLINGTON, February 8. In a reserved judgment to-day, Mr Page, S.M., convicted Samuel M. Cohen, proprietor of the Rapid Dental Repair Service, on a charge of practising dentistry without being registered. The defendant, who was a registered dentist in the Old Country, came to New Zealand in 1923, said Mr Page, but had not succeeded in passing the examinations to enable him to be registered here. The Act provided that the practice of dentistry snail be deemed to include the performance of any operation and the giving of any treatment, advice, or attendance usually performed or given by dentists. In his view the making of and repairing of artificial teeth was unassociated with any attendance on the patient, and would not come within the meaning of the Act, which was not directed at the mechanical or technical work of repairing artificial teeth, but at the performing of an operation or the givipg of advice, treatment, or attendance. In the present case the defendant examined a patient’s mouth, and took two impressions, and, having repaired the teeth, had fitted them in. The defendant was fined £5. Later i7io penalty was fixed at £5 Is to permit of an appeal, security for which was fixed at £lO 10s.