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Dental Treatment of Maternity and Child Welfare Patients.
Expectant and nursing mothers and young children requiring
treatment are referred by the Medical Officers attending the anteand
post-natal Clinics.
The dental surgeons visit the Centres when possible to
examine the teeth of nursing mothers and young children. The
opportunity is taken of giving instruction to mothers on the care
of the teeth, the talks being illustrated with the aid of charts, and
great interest is shown.
Unfortunately, the visits to Centres during the year have
been few. This is the more to be regretted, inasmuch as these
visits are particularly useful in giving the dental surgeons scope
for informal talks to mothers on matters of dental interest.