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Education regarding the care of the teeth is very badly needed, judging
by the cases that apply for treatment. Extensive sepsis in the mother and
early caries in the child furnish the majority of these.
The clinic is held one session weekly, using the dental clinic in Pymmes
Park mansion, fitted up by the Education Committee.
The first half of the morning is devoted to conservative work, the latter
half to extraction under nitrous oxide gas, the anaesthetic being given by the
Medical Officer of Health.
The following figures give the number of cases treated, but it must be
realised that conservative work may be, and often is, very tedious, and that,
on account of the septic gums, it is unwise to extract too many teeth at one
sitting.
Patients are assisted in the provision of dentures by the Council, according
to their income, and the dentures supplied are at contract price.