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Forms from Head Teachers.
The number of forms issued by Head Teachers for emergency
treatment was 2,860 compared with 2,568 in 1951.
X-Ray Examinations.
The number of cases referred to Mayday Hospital for the
above purpose was 140, compared with 155 in 1951.
Orthodontic Service
The demand for the above treatment has now reached very
substantial proportions and constitutes a major problem in children's
dentistry.
Whilst in the past there has been a general tendency to rate
this work at a purely aesthetic level, recent research in jaw development
has shown conclusively that this viewpoint represents but a
"half truth."
In addition to the psychological benefit to the patient of improving
more obvious defects, there are in practice many mouths
in which function cannot be adequately restored, without measures
to achieve a reasonable balance of articulation. Cases causing
particular anxiety are those in which diagnosis is complicated by
early loss of certain temporary and permanent teeth, and where
urgent steps are necessary to correct jaw relationship before the
discrepancies become too marked. Whilst every effort is made to
deal with the simpler of these defects, many of a more complicated