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We undertake to provide the Hospital with models of each
mouth for the Orthodontic Surgeon's use. We retain one for our
own records.
Thus, instead of the multitudinous journeys necessitated by
many of these cases, there will be, except in the rarest instances,
only one journey to Town. The rest of the work will be carried
out by our own Dental Surgeon, and by the part-time Mechanic
working under his direction.
Arrangements have been made that the cases shall be inspected
by a small Sub-Committee before being passed on for treatment.
At the outset it seemed that there might be difficulty owing
to possible overcrowding at the Hospital, as it appeared likely that
only one Surgeon would be dealing with this work. Fortunately
however, several of the Surgeons doing this class of work have
entered into the scheme.
Special forms are being drawn up for facilitating the work,
and keeping of the records.
It is proposed that the following scale shall be applied to the
charges to be made to parents for orthodontic treatment.
The total income is found, and this divided by the number of
the family, and on the scale the charges are: —
Income less than 8/- per head Free.
Between 8/- and io/- per head, to pay £0 9 0
Between io/- and 12/- per head, to pay £ 0 18 0
Above 12/- per head, to pay full amount £ 1 17 0
or in cases of special difficulty to be assessed by the Chairman
of the Medical Inspection Sub-Committee.
I should like to place on record my thanks for the way in
which the Secretary of the Royal Dental Hospital, and particularly
Mr. Evans, the Surgeon to the Hospital in charge of this
work, did everything they could to make the scheme workable.
It is interesting to know that this is the only scheme which the
Royal Dental Hospital are prepared to work, as all others that
^ have been put forward have so far been unworkable.
It is interesting also to see that there is a very definite move
towards educating the dental student to deal with the class of work
which he is likely to meet with amongst those of more moderate
means, on lines which if not producing the same cosmetic results,
will produce an efficient masticating machine.