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treatment facilities are shared. A need to develop the M. & C.W.
Dental Service in which Dental Auxiliaries have an important part
to play is rightly stressed by the Ministry which also recommends
that 9% of the total treatment sessions should be devoted to this
service. Unfortunately, with our present establishment, this recommended
figure amounts only to approximately one-third of the full
time equivalent of one dental officer.
If one dental surgeon were to set up in practice with the express
purpose of dealing adequately with the dental problems of preschool
children and mothers of the Borough in one-third of his
time, his prospects of impact on the community would be open to
grave doubts. Yet. in present circumstances, this is all the potential
which we ourselves can hope to apply to the problem. It is therefore
self-evident that, in close alliance with the necessary expansion
of the School Dental Service, the facilities of the Maternity and
Child Welfare Dental Service will have to be greatly increased if
we are to establish the effective service our community needs."
Treatment During 1967
ATTENDANCES
New Patients:
No. of Appointments 249
No. and percentage of Appointments
Taken Up 172 = 69.10%
On-treatment Patients:
No. of Appointments 616
No. and percentage of Appointments
Taken Up 466 = 75.68%
Emergency Patients Treated 26
Total attendances 664
TREATMENTS
No. of Treatment Sessions 84
Total No. of Teeth Treated 489
(a) Mothers: No. and percentage—
Filled 37 = 86.00%
Extracted 6 = 14.00%
(b) Children : No. and percentage—
Filled 397 =100.00%
Extracted Nil
Prophylactic Treatment 179
X-rays 36
Dentures 2
General Anaesthetics —
All Other Operations 45