Free dental clinics in North Carolina : traveling dental service for rural school children during the summer of 1918 . egro children is questionable. 12 FREE DENTAL CLINICS On Thursday of the first weekswork in Wilson the dentist wrote asfollows: Professor Coon, as well as theteachers cooperating with us to makethe work a success. An advanced stu-dent is always at my service to fill outblanks, etc., and I only have the workto do. Yesterday I treated thirty-six chil-dren, and today forty. The balance ofthis week will be spent in the schoolsof the city, and the report of this weekwill be the bes
Free dental clinics in North Carolina : traveling dental service for rural school children during the summer of 1918 . egro children is questionable. 12 FREE DENTAL CLINICS On Thursday of the first weekswork in Wilson the dentist wrote asfollows: Professor Coon, as well as theteachers cooperating with us to makethe work a success. An advanced stu-dent is always at my service to fill outblanks, etc., and I only have the workto do. Yesterday I treated thirty-six chil-dren, and today forty. The balance ofthis week will be spent in the schoolsof the city, and the report of this weekwill be the best for this county, I tion of their local dentist, in savingthe teeth. Dr. Smith is splendid, and will dohis utmost to make the work a suc-cess. And the work will be a successeverywhere, for it fills the greatestwant that is a necessity to idea is great, the work is great,and the results are great. Your name should be immortalizedin the annals of dentistry in puttingon this work and stabilizing it as adepartment of the State Board ofHealth. I want to see the work growand grow until it covers the entire. Group picture of the teachers and pupils of the Saratoga School, Wilson County, Decem-ber, 1918. Dentist in upper left beside the health officer. Photo just after dental work for schoolwas completed. think, for I have a waiting clinic allthe time here, as well as an assist-ant, etc. Yesterday I lectured at the oldschool, or high school, as they call it,and tomorrow I give a talk at anotherschool. In these talks or lectures Itry to avoid technical terms, use plainlanguage, guaged to the minds of thelittle folks. I lay emphasis on theimportance and eruption of six-yearmolars, care of teeth, with propertechnic (demonstrated) to be em-ployed, and the value of the coopera- state and spreads to other states, andI want to grow with the work. At the conclusion of the Wilsonclinics, when he had decided to resignand begin the private practice of den-tistry, Dr. Turner expresses
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