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"The number of adolescents treated during the year has
increased, especially the number of young girls of the age group
16 —21. This category is of great importance, since here the
good work done by the school dental service may be followed
up. These patients show great prejudice to conservative work,
but its terror is being abolished by the wider use of local anæsthesia.
Treatment carried out for this category is of a preventive
nature, since the greater the number of young people who are
kept dentally fit and dentally wise, the lesser will be the number
of adults who are usually found to require drastic treatment,
whether they be maternity patients or otherwise.
I am, Sir,
Your obedient Servant,
GRANTLEY SMITH,
Municipal Dental Surgeon.