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Many patients requiring dentures did not receive treatment because they were unable or
unwilling to pay the cost price or feared they would not be able to keep the payments by instalments
up-to-date.
The scheme, however, can only be complete and economical when the Council has its own
work-rooms and mechanics.
The measures to be taken to secure a clean and healthy mouth, represent a very important
branch of public health and it is extremely necessary that all mothers have healthy and efficient
dentures both for their own sakes and that of their children.
When this is done we shall be a step nearer towards overcoming that, at present, formidable
task, " The Systematic Dental Treatment of Elementary School Children."
Anœthetics.
The use of Nitrous Oxide gas as a general anœsthetic is not altogether satisfactory for dental
operations, the anaesthesia is very short and it is impossible to clear the mouth of septic teeth at
one sitting.
It is trying both for mothers and children to have to attend on several occasions for administration
of nitrous oxide, and this adds to the number of cases not completed.
Ethyl Chloride is an anœthetic specially applicable to dental work, and when properly
administered gives complete relaxation. It requires, however, a specialist anaesthetist or it may prove
dangerous.