DENTIST AND PHYSICIAN.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2736, 22 May 1924, Page 3

DENTIST AND PHYSICIAN.

“Not infrequently.” said the president -of the New Zealand Dental Association, at the annual meeting; at Wellington, on Tuesday, “a patient came In one’s surgery and said ‘Doctor Ro-nnd-So says Tam t" have all my teeth out.’ The dentist who carried out the doctor’s instruction,-. without question and against his belter judgment, was betraying his profession and many did so. What physician was m a .position to .instruct, them on matters connected with the teeth? How should a man to whom it. was the veriest side issue'hope to instruct them as to what course to take? The question of the .-o-ordinatinn of the medical and dental professions was sure to come up in the near future. Years ago the life of a person avhs presumed to he solely in the hands of I lie physician. Tollin' a different condition prevailed and the importance of oral specialisation was realised more generaltv This could only have one mean--1 jig—co-partnership in the field of health.”