Free dental clinics in North Carolina : traveling dental service for rural school children during the summer of 1918 . rcha fillings 104 Silver nitrate fillings 185 Abscesses treated 44 Teeth extracted . 197Number children for whom teeth were cleaned 308 Pyorrhea treated 3 Miscellaneous treatments .... 56 Children who needed nothing done 55 Number children unmanageable. 4 LENOIR COUNTY Of the three hundred and eighty-three children receiving dental treat-ment in this county there were twohundred and thirty-two homes repre-sented. Of forty-six white schools inthe county thirty-one of them werer
Free dental clinics in North Carolina : traveling dental service for rural school children during the summer of 1918 . rcha fillings 104 Silver nitrate fillings 185 Abscesses treated 44 Teeth extracted . 197Number children for whom teeth were cleaned 308 Pyorrhea treated 3 Miscellaneous treatments .... 56 Children who needed nothing done 55 Number children unmanageable. 4 LENOIR COUNTY Of the three hundred and eighty-three children receiving dental treat-ment in this county there were twohundred and thirty-two homes repre-sented. Of forty-six white schools inthe county thirty-one of them wererepresented at the dental clinics. Thehealth officer makes the following ob-servation before the end of the firstweek: We have had one hundred and onedental patients the first four days ofour campaign, and have turned awaythree times as many. We are out sixdays to the week from 8 until Children eager. Biggest boonyet in health work. I am well pleasedand feel that my purpose is being ac-complished and that the fruits of mywork will not be a small heap whenthe roll is called ten to twenty yearsfrom Coahoma School in Lenoir County At time photograph was made health offi-cer was in one room ol schoolhouse givingfree vaccination against typhoid, and dentist,in another room, treating the teeth of eight-een school children. In his first week for Lenoir Countythe dentist says: The work we have takes about allones time. We start out about 8oclock in the morning and get backabout 7:30 or 8 oclock at night. Inthe first five days we have been out Ihave treated one hundred and twenty-six children. I find that about eightyper cent of the six-year molars needfillings, some of them requiring treat- IN NORTH CAROLINA 15 ment before being filled. I also findthat not more than six out of 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 thegr
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