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REPORT OF THE PRINCIPAL SCHOOL DENTAL OFFICER.
During the year 1968 there were again changes of dental staff. Mr. K. Lesser was
appointed full-time dental officer in March. Mrs. F. Hardman and Mrs. E. Shaw, parttime
dental officers in April and May respectively. Mrs. J. Reynolds resigned in March,
Mr N. Daver and Mrs. E. Shaw in May. Mr. M. Martin was appointed as a dental
technician on 8th April, 1968.
Mr. T. McVey attended a three day residential Orthodontic Course at Keele
University in April and attended the annual conference of the British Dental Association
in June. Mr. C. J. Grigson, a dental apprentice, was presented with a prize by the
Brooklands County Technical College, Weybridge, for being one of their six best
students.
During the year 115 sessions were devoted to the dental inspection of the mouths
of 8,123 children in schools and a further 3,204 were inspected for the first time in the
year at clinics. Advantage was taken of these sessions to make a detailed dental examination
of a random 10% sample of pupils. The results from these examinations have
been used by students at Twickenham Technical College for a practical exercise in
data processing. In future detailed comparisons will be able to be made each year of
the many varied aspects of the dental condition of school children in the Borough. I am
indebted to Mr. J. Moss, Head of the Division of Cybernetics and Data Processing at
Twickenham Technical College, and his staff, for their assistance in preparing the
computer programme and printing out the necessary information.
A total of 5,802 children were found to require treatment after inspection and all
were offered it except those already attending their own practitioner. The number
offered treatment was 4,769 and 3,345 accepted. The number of sessions devoted to
treatment was 1,547 and details of the treatment are shown below arranged in their
age groups 1,062 pupils were re-inspected at clinics and 966 of these were found to
require treatment.

* this figure includes 11 teeth extracted for orthodontic purposes,
†his figure includes 226 teeth extracted for orthodontic purposes.
‡ this figure includes 9 teeth extracted for orthodontic purposes.
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