DENTAL TREATMENT

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 133, 22 June 1937, Page 3

DENTAL TREATMENT

Our Own Correspondent).

Children Attending Waipawa Clinic

(From

W ii.±Jr-A. VV A, JbaSt JNlgUt. Following is the report presented by the Nurse, Miss G. M. Masters, at the annual meeting of the Waipawa Dental Olinic: — The number of children receiving treatment at the Waipawa centre is 342, composed of children from the following schools: — Argyll East 14, Convent 23, Correspondence 6, Makaroa 11, Omakere 18, Ongaonga 36, Ruataniwha 16, Springhill 8, Tikokino 60, Wakarara 7, Waipawa 143; total 342. These children have been reoxamined every six months, and for the period from July, 1936, to May of this year the following number of operations has been carried out on them:— sTotal number of fillings, both simple and compound, and in both deciduous and permanent teeth, 1154; total number of extractions, 171; other operations, ineluding ailver nitrate treatment. cleanings, etc., 845; total 2170. On account of the delay in re-open-ing the clinic, due to the infantilo paralysis epidemic, revision work is somewhat in arrear. Revision was due at Otane at the beginning of May, but the earliest possible date when work can be commenced there is at the beginning of July. Consequently we have been instructed that revision work, that is, regular re-examination of patients receiving systematic treatment, should take precedence over the treatment of new entrants until such time as revision is brought up to date. Tho term "new entrants,, applies to children who have not yet had their initia] treatments either commenced or completed. However, it is hoped that in the near future all revision work uill be brought up to date and a start made on the treatment of new entrants.