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The acceptance of treatment rate was 78.28 per cent., an
increase of 8.1 per cent. over the previous year, and 15.6 per cent.
over that of 1938, the last complete pre-war year.
Of those inspected, the percentage referred for treatment was
67.6 per cent.; and, of these, 82.6 per cent. received complete
treatment during the year.
The attendances increased by 856. While the extraction of
permanent teeth showed a slight fall (37) from the previous year,
the number of permanent fillings increased by over one thousand
to 4,371.
The number of clinic sessions devoted to inspection fell by 19,
with an increase of treatment sessions by 23.
The number of other operations, such as scalings, insertion of
sedative dressings, root canal treatments and treatment of sensitive
fractured teeth, together amounted to 305.
Table IV of the Statistical Appendix, which now includes
treatment of pupils attending the Boys' and Girls' Secondary
Schools, gives a comprehensive idea of the work done for the
school children of the area.
Orthodontics.
During the year 94 attendances were made by children for
advice on or the adjustment of orthodontic appliances; and 76
adjustments to appliances, all of the removable type, were carried
out.
Thirteen impressions were taken and study models cast in
connection with new cases.
In addition, many children were wholly treated by extractions
(permanent teeth, 72 ; temporary teeth, 241).
As previously reported, the assistance of X-ray photography is
indispensable for diagnosis of some cases of irregularity; and,
where this was necessary, the parents were asked to take the
children to either the London Hospital Dental School or Connaught
Hospital for X-ray photographs to be taken.
It is satisfactory to be able to record an increase in the number
of parents who periodically seek advice on their children's dental