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REPORT ON THE DENTAL SECTION
OF THE MATERNITY AND CHILD WELFARE SERVICE
(By Mr.J.H.Glen, L.D.S., Senior Dental Officer)
Unfortunately, no additional staff became available during the year, so that the
policy of confining dental treatment to those mothers who were in pain or who needed
dentures was continued. Those requiring extensive conservation treatment were referred
to the private practitioners who, through their Local Dental Committee, had agreed the
previous year to help in this way.
The part-payment for dentures introduced into the General Dental Service in May
1951 did not produce the increase in the number of mothers seeking dentures at the clinic,
as had been expected, and it may well be that the public are again sinking into the state
of indifference of their dental health, so prevalent before July 1948, and which only a
full staff, and an Intensive propaganda of health education can overcome.