DIRECTOR OF DENTISTRY

Hokitika Guardian, 8 June 1920, Page 4

DIRECTOR OF DENTISTRY

COL. HUNTER RE-APPOINTED

WELLINGTON, June 1

Colonel T. H. Hunter, formerly of Dunedin, lias been reappointed chief dental officer., to take charge of the Education Department's school dental scheme. He recently resigned owing to difficulty due to the New Zealand Dental Association executive not having been .consulted over his appointment. Further applications were called under modified conditions, and Colonel Hunter has. again obtained .the position. Ten or twelve asstants are to be appointed in a few days,, so that the Department .can immediately undertake dental operative work among children.

The intention is to employ five dentists at the chief centres, and five travelling 'among country schools, oullicient motor ambulance's wore purchased after- the war in England for use as travelling dental surgeries, and it is intended by the. Minister for Education, who has taken keen interest in evolving details of this progressive- scheme, that a dentist, upon examining the teeth of children in remote schools; will remain at that place, until the most serious defects are remedied. <

’ A large quantity of equipment and material left over from the Expeditionary Force dental scheme has been taken oyer by the Education Department, thus enabling the scheme to malic an economical start. . It is intended to adopt an efficient- method .. ol charting the dental condition, of children evolved by the New Zealand Dental Corps during the war. As the scheme .develops it is probable that a larger number of dentists will be engaged.