SCHOOL DENTAL CLINICS
THE GOVERNMENT’S SCHEME.
RAPID DEVELOPMENT MADE.
The Government’s dental treatment scheme, inaugurated in 1920, has rapidly developed in recent years, and others interested realise only too well its advantages (says the N.Z. Times). At .the present, time there are 47 school dental clinics throughout the Dominion, and these, controlled, by 13 dental surgeons and 42 nurses, afford regular treatment to 32,000 children—that is, this number bf children are ’’examined every six months and ; any necessary stoppings or extractions . are carried out. There is a great demand for the establishment of further clinics throughout the country,-, and, with this object in view, .the department' is constantly training addiitional nurses. At preqsnt the backblock schools are not receiving any great benefit from the scheme, but the necessity of securing some means of reaching these children is fully realised. In this regard, it might be mentioned that an effort was made to cater for the country districts per mediu,m of motor dental ambulances in the Auckland district, but the service did not prove as successful as anticipated, and had to be discontinued. .
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVII, Issue 5056, 24 November 1926, Page 2
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182SCHOOL DENTAL CLINICS Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVII, Issue 5056, 24 November 1926, Page 2
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