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Emphasis therefore must be on all and every method which can be used to prevent
tooth decay rather than upon trying to cope with it when it has arisen. To encourage
good methods of tooth brushing and oral hygiene to cut down the amount of sugar,
biscuits, cakes, sticky sweet puddings and ice lollies, and to substitute nuts, raisins,
raw carrot, and perhaps the most useful of all, the finishing of a meal with raw fruit
such as an apple, followed by mouth rinsing. Also the elimination of all eating between
meals.
The Ministry of Health tests into the artificial fluoridation of domestic water
supply continue and the five year test period ends in 1961. One awaits the results of
these tests in the hope that some general scheme will be recommended in areas where the
natural proportions of fluoriside is less than 1 part in a million of water.
EXPERIMENTAL TRAINING SCHEME FOR DENTAL AUXILIARIES
The year 1960 saw the opening of the training school for auxiliary dental workers
who will be allowed to fill teeth and extract temporary teeth under the supervision of
a dental officer. The first of these auxiliary workers should be available for employment
from about August 1962 but as the School intake is only 60 per annum the number
available to the School Dental Services will not be large.
It is by a combination of these means that we hope to achieve the aim of a satisfactory
school dental service viz: that children leave school dentally sound, trained
in the care of the teeth, and without the loss of permanent teeth.
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