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DENTAL SERVICES
The Chief Dental Officer and Principal School Dental Officer reports as follows:
To give dental treatment to young patients, to overcome their dislike and fear and to
gain the respect and confidence of parents, requires professional skill of a high order as
well as great personal patience and integrity.
In this, my final annual report, I would like to place on record my personal thanks to
and appreciation of those members of my profession who have helped to sustain—particularly
through the past few difficult years and health service changes—the Council's dental
services at a high standard of personal service.
School dental service
During 1964 increasing numbers of parents declared their intention to make private
arrangements for the care of their children's health; intending in most cases, no doubt,
to make demands on National Health Service dentists as well as on National Health
Service doctors. A slight increase in dental sessions was necessitated by an expansion and
intensification throughout the year of the revisional treatment introduced in 1962 for
patients who had completed a course of treatment. This of itself is an improvement in the
quality of dental care now given to children who attend the Council's dental surgeries
with regularity, but must, of course, result in smaller numbers of children being treated
per dentist.