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"Dental Inspection and Treatment of Elementary School
Children during 1936."
"During the year, 624 more children than in the previous
year were inspected by the dental surgeons at the various schools.
The number of children inspected reached a total of 14,534 or
4,845 children inspected by each officer.
"The number found to require treatment was 9,465. This
is larger than in the preceding year by 526. Those actually treated
by the school dental surgeons amounted to 5,967.
"The treatment carried out was as usual fillings in permanent
teeth, and in certain temporary teeth in very young children,
extractions both of permanent and temporary, also "other operations,"
for example, scalings, dressings to permanent teeth and
gum treatments. The number of fillings was 6,421 for permanent
teeth. This figure is smaller by sixty than in the previous
year. Temporary fillings showed an increase of eighty over the
preceding year; 746 of these fillings being applied to the molar
teeth of the temporary dentition.
"Extractions, both temporary and permanent, totalled 11,053,
a little more than last year. Of this number 1,375 were of permanent
and 9,678 of temporary teeth. "Other operations " included dressings
to teeth, e.g., silver nitrate dressings to anterior and posterior
temporary teeth, sedative dressings to cavities in certain permanent
and temporary teeth, gum treatments in minor forms of gingivitis.
Altogether 853 applications of this character were given. Scaling
was done on 118 children's mouths. For the work carried out
by the dental surgeons 8,146 attendances were made by the
children at all the Centres.
"At the special leavers' inspection which takes place three
times yearly, in the senior departments of schools, it was found
that at the end of the year 76 per cent. children were leaving with
their teeth perfectly sound. The coming year will show a higher
percentage leaving with completed dental treatment."