Free dental clinics in North Carolina : traveling dental service for rural school children during the summer of 1918 . a dentist for one week to comeout there and treat the childrensteeth. That sounds pretty good to me,and it just goes to show you how weare impressing the people of Nashwith this campaign. As in the case of all the other den-tists working, the summary, or finalreport of the dentist conducting theclinics is well worth reading. Thedentists own impressions of the wholeproblem as the work progresses iscrystallized and set forth in the finalreport. They are all passed along tothe re
Free dental clinics in North Carolina : traveling dental service for rural school children during the summer of 1918 . a dentist for one week to comeout there and treat the childrensteeth. That sounds pretty good to me,and it just goes to show you how weare impressing the people of Nashwith this campaign. As in the case of all the other den-tists working, the summary, or finalreport of the dentist conducting theclinics is well worth reading. Thedentists own impressions of the wholeproblem as the work progresses iscrystallized and set forth in the finalreport. They are all passed along tothe reader exactly as the dentistsmade them to the State Board ofHealth. IN NORTH CAROLINA 25 The following, from the dentist atthe close of the Nash County work, isfully up to the standard: To begin with the work in NashCounty was very satisfactory. Wehad viry good clinics, but not as goodat Dr Jordan and myself would havenked There were very few days thatwe didnt have a good crowd I amconfident that the people of NashCounty are awake to the fact thatthey should take care of their chiidrens teeth. They have been sadly. Boys who have just had their teeth treatedin Nash County Free Dental Clinic, SalemSchoolhouse, July 16, 19l». neglected and a few lectures from usSid lots of good I can safely say tha75 ner cent of the six-year molarswere decayed. If these teeth werenttoo bad IYat least fixed one of themand then tried to impress it upon theparents why they should, have theothers fixed. I consider the six-yearmolars the most important teeth inthe head and I think theyshould re-ceive first consideration. Where thesetoeth were too bad for me to treat Iinsisted on the parents taking thechild to town to a dentist for treat- mOur method of working in NashCounty, I think, was by far the best plan so far tried. We worked sevenweeks there and visited thirty schoolsWe grouped our schools in differentsections and called several schools tothe most central point. By doing thiswe reached every com
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