UNREGISTERED DENTIST.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3752, 9 February 1928, Page 3

UNREGISTERED DENTIST.

. BEFORE COURT. Wellington, Yesterday. In a reserved judgment to-dav, Mr. F. Page, S.M., convicted Samuel M. Cohen, proprietor of the Rapid Dental Repair Service, on a charge of practising dentistry without being registered. 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 exams, to enable him to be registered here. The Act provided that the practice of dentistry, shall 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 mere repairing of artificial teeth —nnassoeiated with any attendance on the patient, wo-

uld not come within the meaning of 1 the Act. The Act was not directed at mechanical or technical work of repairing artificial teeth, but at the performance of an operation or giving of advice, treatment or attendance. In the'present case defendant examined the patient’s mouth and took two impressions and having repaired the teeth fitted them in. Defendant was fined £5, later fixed at £5 Is to permit of an appeal, security for which was fixed at £lO 10s.