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EQUIPMENT
High speed aerotors for cavity preparation are being used in six of our
surgeries (dental auxiliaries do not use this equipment), and they are an
essential item of surgery equipment. Dental radiographic facilities were available
in five surgeries.
GENERAL COMMENTS
The need to get many more of the under-five children to receive regular
dental care must be one of our main aims in the future. It is by teaching dental
health from a very early age that the importance of good teeth and oral hygiene
may be realised; also a lot must be done to attract many more expectant and
nursing mothers to our dental clinics.
Fluoridation of water supplies appears to be the next major step to be
taken in the field of preventive dentistry. I hope it will not be too many years
before this is possible.
DENTAL SERVICE STATISTICS
Sessions(½ days) worked
1. Sessions devoted to inspection 63
2. Sessions devoted to dental health education 89
3. Sessions devoted to treatment 3,293
4. Sessions devoted to mothers and young children 234
Total 3,679
School Dental Inspection
5. Number of pupils inspected at school 5,084
Number of pupils inspected at clinic 3,781
Number of pupils found to require treatment 5,713
Number of pupils offered treatment 5,438
Treatment
6. Number of pupils actually treated 4,960
7. Number of attendances made 13,978
8. Number of fillings in permanent teeth 7,200
9. Number of fillings in deciduous teeth 4,420
10. Permanent teeth extracted 666
11. Deciduous teeth extracted 2,514
12. General anaesthetics given1,179
13. Number of pupils x-rayed 210
14. Number of pupils supplied with dentures 11
Orthodontics
15. New cases commenced 78
16. Cases remaining from previous year 58
17. Cases completed 27
18. Cases discontinued 46
19. Number of appliances fitted 75
20. Pupils referred to hospital consultant 5
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