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Orthodontic treatment is not only tedious and time consuming
but it is expensive, and in most cases the need for it could have been
avoided. Unfortunately there are still far too many parents who will
not take the Dentist's advice to have their children's first teeth filled..
These teeth are lost early, neighbouring teeth close in to fill the gap,
and there is then not enough room for the second teeth which come
through crooked.
The reconverted East Street Clinic opened during the year thus
giving the Oral Hygienist more adequate accommodation. There
is, I am convinced, scope for the further extension of her work when the
Dental Officers come to realise her full value. In addition to chairside
duties she has developed the preventive and educative side of her work
by giving talks to groups of expectant mothers attending the ante-natal
classes. I am also encouraging head teachers to give her every facility

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