Free dental clinics in North Carolina : traveling dental service for rural school children during the summer of 1918 . he dispensarypoints representing thirty-one ofthem. At nearly every dispensary 16 FREE DENTAL CLINICS point there was a demand for moredental treatment than could be many instances the work had to belimited to one child from a Mitchener always helped in keep-ing the records when he was not busywith his own work. The local dentists were courteousand Dr. Mitchener always did every-thing in his power to help me. I think there were very few mis-takes made, cons
Free dental clinics in North Carolina : traveling dental service for rural school children during the summer of 1918 . he dispensarypoints representing thirty-one ofthem. At nearly every dispensary 16 FREE DENTAL CLINICS point there was a demand for moredental treatment than could be many instances the work had to belimited to one child from a Mitchener always helped in keep-ing the records when he was not busywith his own work. The local dentists were courteousand Dr. Mitchener always did every-thing in his power to help me. I think there were very few mis-takes made, considering the fact thatit was almost like pioneer work. polishing of the teeth, and a generalsurvey of the childs mouth with de-tail advice to the parent and enabled us to reach a greaternumber with our message. Our ideawas that the polishing brush wouldshow what daily care would do; thatby cleaning we might save severalteeth, directly or indirectly, in thesame time we would save only one byfilling. True it is that a tooth filledis one saved, but the writer is of theopinion that we can get a child to re-. Moss Hill School in Ltnoir County in which 33 children from 23 households were givenfree dental treatment in the Traveling Dental Service conducted in that county by the NorthCarolina State Board of Health, July, 1918. Picture shows how people rode to clinic-. In his report of his years work tothe State Board of Health and the In-ternational Health Board, the LenoirCounty Health Officer says, concern-ing the aim of the dental work:We put as our task to teach salva-tion in a clean mouth; that children,even at six and seven, have teeth theydo not shed; that the milk teeth needcare; that preventive dentistry is pain-less. We also quote the following inter-esting comments from the same re-port: The first week prophylactic workwas done exclusively. By prophylaxiswe mean the removal of tartar, the port to a private dentist for threefillings, as quickly as for one—themagni
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