School Dental Service
[XN New Zealand we have the finest service in the world for caring for children’s teeth-the School Dental Service. It is, of course, concerned mainly with the children in the primary schools from the age of five years on. Visit any school clinic. See how it is made bright and attractive with toys and
pictures. Watch the nurses at work, Little operative work is attempted in the first few visits. If pain is to’ be caused at any stage, it is introduced as carefully as possible, perhaps in conjunction with a story. Parents are told what to do; arrangements are made for a re-examination of the child two or three times a year until he is five; and by the time he is of school age he
takes the dental clinic as a matter of course, and, usually, quite happily. Instruction is complete right down to the last detail, and by the time the child passes out of the clinic he should be well aware of the importance of his teeth. At this point, however, a duty rests with the parents. It is for them to see that the child does not neglect his teeth, Sixmonthly visits to the family dentist are the best and cheapest guarantee of good teeth. — ("Care of Children’s Teeth," 1YA, January 6.)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 136, 30 January 1942, Page 5
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220School Dental Service New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 136, 30 January 1942, Page 5
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