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tion at the clinics, nearly all of whom are found to require treatment,
It is also one of the main reasons for the loss of the 1,000 permanent
teeth that had to be extracted during the year because they had
decayed beyond repair.
Oral Hygienist
The Oral Hygienist continued to function for the benefit of
the Priority classes. She carried out a large number of scalings and
prophylactic treatments but perhaps the more important side of her
work was in the sphere of Dental Education. Apart from chairside
instruction to her patients, she has given talks on dental hygiene
in schools and at ante-natal clinics. It is felt that there is scope
in the future for even greater activity in this field. Education of
mothers and children in the fundamentals of dental hygiene is the
one sure way of producing a dentally conscious, and hence a more
dentally healthy nation."

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