Free dental clinics in North Carolina : traveling dental service for rural school children during the summer of 1918 . the num-ber I mentioned have ever been treatedby a dentist before. It will be impos-sible for me to do all the necessaryfilling in the time allotted. So, and I have decided that thegreatest good I can do is to start thechild out with a clean mouth, do thenecessary extracting and then fill asmany as possible. In this way wereach a great number. Of course inthe cases where I cannot fill I amadvising and trying to impress uponthe child and parents the importance cien
Free dental clinics in North Carolina : traveling dental service for rural school children during the summer of 1918 . the num-ber I mentioned have ever been treatedby a dentist before. It will be impos-sible for me to do all the necessaryfilling in the time allotted. So, and I have decided that thegreatest good I can do is to start thechild out with a clean mouth, do thenecessary extracting and then fill asmany as possible. In this way wereach a great number. Of course inthe cases where I cannot fill I amadvising and trying to impress uponthe child and parents the importance ciently appealed to and their enthus-iasm aroused enough to cause them totry to keep a clean mouth, I thinkthe work will have been a has ever been my aim and at thesame time I have tried to give asmuch material benefit as possible. Although it was not practical togive lantern slide lectures at the timeI worked in Lenoir County, I gaveeach child a short lecture while Iworked at the chair. If parents werepresent I talked to them about thecondition of the childs mouth main theme was the importance. First days Free Dental Clinic for Rural ScNorth Carolina, in July. 1918. of going to a private dentist immedi-ately. A few cases have been referredfor orthodontic treatment. As I workI try to teach the child somethingabout oral hygiene. And in his summary of the dentalwork, written a few days after leavingLenoir County, he says: I consider this free dental dispen-sary movement by the State Board ofHealth as an educational movementas much as anything else. I believethe educational feature will be farmore valuable to the coming genera-tion than the mere cleaning of teethand the placing of fillings which oneman could do in one month. If thepride of the children has been suffi- hool Children at a school in Lenoir County, of saving the six-year molars and theuse of a tooth brush. I saw the beginning of results be-fore I left the county. Three chil-dren, whom I could not tre
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