Travelling Dental Unit For Overseas
hospital has been built for use with the New Zealand Division Overseas and is now at Trentham Camp. It stands on the chassis of a large motor lorry, awaiting the. special chassis to which it will ultimately be fitted before leaving New Zealand, \ FULLY equipped travelling dental This travelling dental unit is complete with chairs and sufficient equipment to cope with work in the field, work such as repairs, fillings and extractions. An ingenious device provides for plenty of hot water, and there is storage room for a considerable quantity of spare equipment and supplies. When it is in action the unit can move with the troops to any sphere of operaticns. The dental hospital at Trentham is working to capacity. There are 17 dentists and 32 mechanics to deal with the constant stream of men requiring attention, and no man leaves New Zealand until his teeth are in first-class order. Men of the 3rd Echelon units and the specialist companies are now receiving attention. Befcre this work is complete, 700 full or partial dentures will have been made, though many of them have already aed completed. The Trentham Dental Hospital is fully equipped, even to X-Ray apparatus, There is no waiting. Each man’s requirements and appointments are card-indexed and the work flows to an even and regular schedule,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 57, 26 July 1940, Page 4
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224Travelling Dental Unit For Overseas New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 57, 26 July 1940, Page 4
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