SCHOOL DENTAL SCHEME

New Zealand Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 10603, 31 May 1920, Page 10

SCHOOL DENTAL SCHEME

AIR T. A. HUNTER REAPPOINTED WORK AMONGST CHILDREN. It is announced that Air T. A. Hunter (formerly colonel in the New Zealand Dental Corps) has been reappointed chief dental officer to take charge of the Education Department’s school dental scheme. He recently resigned owing to some difficulty due to the New Zealand Dental Association executive not having been consulted over his appointment. Further applications were called under modified conditions, and Mr Hunter has again obtained tho position. Ten or twelve assistants are to be appointed in a few days, so that tho department can impiediaitely undertake dental operative work among children. Tho intention is to employ five dentists at tho chief centres, and five travelling among country schools. Sufficient nutter ambulances were purchased after tho war in England for use as travelling dental surgeries, and it is intended hv tho ALmster for Education, who has taken keen interest in evolving details of this progressive sebemo that n Oon'tiS't, upon examining the teeth of children in remote schools will remain a-fc 'that place until tlio most serious defects are remedied. A largo quantity of equipment and material left over from the Expeditionary Force dental scheme, has been taken over by the Education Department, thus enabling iho scheme to make an economical start.

It is intended to adopt an efficient method of charting the dental condition of children evolved by tho New Zealand Dental Corns during the war, As tho scheme develops it is probable that a, larger number of dentists will he engaged.