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Dental service in boarding schools and residential establishments
There was little change in this field and it is still not possible to provide the level of
service desired at these establishments. At all, however, some form of dental supervision
and treatment was continued. Heads have authority to employ the services of local
practitioners in cases of urgency.
School for dental auxiliaries
In 1960 a development of some importance was the establishment of a training school
for dental auxiliaries conducted under the aegis of the General Dental Council. The Council
is co-operating in this experiment. During the year some 25,000 children attending schools
in the neighbourhood of the School for Dental Auxiliaries, New Cross were available for
inspection by dental officers of the training school. The parents of children found to need
dental treatment at these inspections had the choice of making 'private' arrangements,
sending their children to the children's clinic at the School for Dental Auxiliaries or to
one of the Council's dental surgeries. The nature of the treatment that can be given by
dental auxiliaries is limited under the Dental Auxiliaries Regulations, 1961 and the Council
seconded a full-time dental officer appointed to the Council's service for duty at the School
for Dental Auxiliaries to undertake dental work beyond that permitted to the trainee
dental auxiliaries.
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