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ANNUAL REPORT OF ORTHODONTIC CONSULTANT.
The activities of the Orthodontic Section during 1936 have been marked by a continuation
of that smooth and satisfactory working which is happily a feature of the general undertakings
at the Clinic.
I am, therefore, again glad to be able to state that the creditable results achieved in
previous years have been fully maintained throughout the past twelve months.
I should like to take this opportunity of once more expressing my thanks to the Dental
Staff for the kind and understanding support which they have unfailingly given me.
H. R. EVANS, l.d.s., r.c.s., eng.,
Orthodontic Consultant.
Orthodontic Demonstrator, Children's Department, Royal Dental Hospital.
As an instance of the importance of the correction of orthodontic deformities at the proper
time, the following case illustrates the tragedy of the condition not being dealt with.
This child came into our district at the age of 13J from a County Council area where
she has been dentally inspected in the ordinary routine way.
The child's personal appearance as can be gathered from the accompanying illustrations,
was ruined. The deformity gave her an unintelligent appearance and its presence very seriously
affected the child's general outlook on life.
The casual observer would have put the child down as wanting in intelligence, whereas
the Head Mistress of the school in our district to which the child ultimately came, reported that
her standard of intelligence was such that she had no doubt that had she had the child at the proper
time she would have obtained a County Scholarship.
I tried to get something done before the child left school but this was defeated at first
by the child leaving and being rushed into employment. However, I got the mother to bring
the child back on a Saturday morning and four teeth were removed from the upper jaw, and
two from the lower jaw, with the hope that nature would do something to remedy the gross
overcrowding which had produced the deformity.
Unfortunately at this age teeth do not move into new places as easily as they would have
done had we had her somewhere about the age of ten.
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