Free dental clinics in North Carolina : traveling dental service for rural school children during the summer of 1918 . ounced, ac-cording to Dr. James S. Mitchener,head of the department. The dentistwith the department, which is nowcarrying on a county-wide campaign,is treating twenty-five person have been turned away at eachplace visited. Treatment Total number children treated . 383 Total number cleanings 338 Total number amalgan fillings . 72 Total number cement 55 Total number extractions 104 Miscellaneous 4 Unmanageable children 1 Number schools in county 46 Number


Free dental clinics in North Carolina : traveling dental service for rural school children during the summer of 1918 . ounced, ac-cording to Dr. James S. Mitchener,head of the department. The dentistwith the department, which is nowcarrying on a county-wide campaign,is treating twenty-five person have been turned away at eachplace visited. Treatment Total number children treated . 383 Total number cleanings 338 Total number amalgan fillings . 72 Total number cement 55 Total number extractions 104 Miscellaneous 4 Unmanageable children 1 Number schools in county 46 Number schools represented at the clinic 31 Number households receiving treatment 232 DAVIDSON COUNTY In Davidson County the plan of call-ing the children whom the teachers, inmaking the preliminary physicalexamination, had found to be most inneed of dental work, was parents were notified to bring thechildren to a central point at an ap-pointed hour on a certain day. Thework in each community was com-pleted before going on to anotherplace. In most instances the age wasrestricted to ten years and Eelangee Mills Town, Lexington, N. C. Finest cottonmill town in the world. Newbuilding under construction is teacheragefor teachers home. One dentist did eight weeks workstraight, doing everything necessaryfor each child. A second dentist, be-ginning later, did four weeks work,following the method he had in an-other county of doing only a limitedamount of work for each child. Because it sets forth so fully andclearly so many phases of the wholeeffort, the report in full of the dentistdoing the eight weeks work in David-son is herewith given. Before beginning the free dentaldispensary I anticipated a great dealmore trouble with the children than I !>, NORTH CAROLINA 19 actually realized. I was surprised tofind so many children willing to en-dure a little discomfort in order tohave their teeth treated. There wasa number, of course, who were un-manageable, but I learned t


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