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Cheam Sanatorium Dental Report.
All patients in Cheam Sanatorium were examined during the
year, and 75% were found to be suffering from dental disease.
The number of patients who availed themselves of treatment was
61, being 84% of those referred. The number of attendances for
these patients totals 348. This at first glance may seem a large
number of attendances for the patients treated, but it must be
realised that dental treatment for tuberculosis patients is a most
difficult form of dentistry. A certain amount of the treatment
time is sometimes taken up by the need of explaining dental
attention.
Treatment for these patients is divided into two classes (a)
those cases in the acute wards suffering from toothache in which,
in view of their condition, treatment is limited to the relief of
pain, and (b) those in which the prognosis of the case is good.
In these cases an effort is made to complete all the treatment
necessary.