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General
Continuing an arrangement initiated by the former London County Council, the
New Cross School for Dental Auxiliaries inspected and treated the children at seven
junior and infant schools within the Borough: 1,720 children were so inspected
in 1965. The Director and his staff were most helpful in matters of mutual interest
and particularly in the field of dental health education.
Southwark is one of only two London Boroughs still employing a dental
auxiliary and during the year an interim report was made to the General Dental
Council by the supervising dental officer. In December a team of assessors from the
Council attended St. George's S.T.C. to make a clinical evaluation of the work of the
dental auxiliary. The experience of having a dental auxiliary working in the School
Dental Service would appear to indicate that there is a definite place for such
officers in an expanding and progressive service particularly in the fields of dental
health education and the treatment of the younger child.
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