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MATERNITY AND CHILD WELFARE DENTAL CLINIC.
Mr. C. Hammond Williams, L.D.S., R.C.S. (Eng.), the Dental
Surgeon in charge of the Dental Clinic, has submitted the following
report:—
I beg to submit my Annual Report of the work carried out at the
Maternity and Child Welfare Dental Clinic for the year 1930.
Our figures in many instances show a slight increase, and, in general,
we have kept well up to average.
The work has been spread over a greater number of sessions in 1930,
on account of postponing those sessions normally falling on public
holidays to more suitable dates.
77 Sessions have been held, at which
1,097 Attendances have been made. An average of over 14
patients per session throughout the year is, I think you
will agree, very gratifying.
2,419 Diseased teeth have been removed, 116 with local
anaesthesia, 1,384 permanent teeth and 919 temporary
teeth under gas. This shows an increase of over 500
teeth on the previous year.
85 Fillings have been inserted, a slight increase, but this is a
form of treatment not very popular with our type of
patient.
147 Scalings have been carried out, and probably more could
be done of this necessary treatment if time permitted.
323 New patients have reported, the same number as the
previous year.
In addition dentures have been made and inserted, the actual numbers
of which I have not available.
A point which is becoming most marked is the few children's mouths
needing wholesale extractions. Only a few years ago it was customary
to have to remove as man}' as 10 or 12 temporary teeth from children
under school age. Now such drastic treatment is not often necessary,
the number of extractions varying between four and six teeth in the