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IN NORTH CAROLINA
25
The following, from the dentist at
the close of the Nash County work, is
fully up to the standard:
"To begin with the work in Nash
County was very satisfactory. We
had viry good clinics, but not as good
at Dr Jordan and myself would have
nked There were very few days that
we didn't have a good crowd I am
confident that the people of Nash
County are awake to the fact that
they should take care of their chii
dren's teeth. They have been sadly
Boys who have just had their teeth treated
in Nash County Free Dental Clinic, Salem
Schoolhouse, July 16, 19l».
neglected and a few lectures from us
Sid lots of good I can safely say tha
75 ner cent of the six-year molars
were decayed. If these teeth weren't
too bad I
Y
at least fixed one of them
and then tried to impress it upon the
parents why they should, have the
others fixed. I consider the six-year
molars the most important teeth in
the head and I think theyshould re-ceive
first consideration. Where these
toeth were too bad for me to treat I
insisted on the parents taking the
child to town to a dentist for treat-m
"Our method of working in Nash
County, I think, was by far the best
plan so far tried. We worked seven
weeks there and visited thirty schools
We grouped our schools in different
sections and called several schools to
the most central point. By doing this
we reached every community in the
county. Of course we did not have
every child, but we did get the largest
part of them. I can safely say that
ev"ery child that came to our clinics
went away with something done to
him I had several people meet me
on the street in Nashville and ex-press
their sorrow at missing our
clinics in their neighborhood, lhat
shows that the people who did go have
been talking and getting their neigh-bors
interested. I was talking to a
dentist in Rocky Mount one day and
he said that he had never seen or
heard of so many children being
rushed to dentists before He said he
had been swamped with them, lhat
also slows that this work is a great
success The time is coming when the
people who take to preventive medi-
Sne
P
and dentistry are going to he the
leaders in everything, while,
the others
are going to sit back and pay the doc
tors' bills."
Treatment
Total number children treated . . 665
Amount and class of treatment:
Amalgam fillings
4*
Cement fillings
Silver nitrate fillings *»
Abscesses treated
Teeth extracted
6™
Teeth cleaned
Miscellaneous treatments '
Children needing nothing done .
. 5
Children unmanageable
NORTHAMPTON COUNTY
The clinics in Northampton were
distinctive in that the whole splendidly
organized health department, together
with the county school officials and the
farm demonstrator all actively coop-erated
A Ford truck was equipped
as a trailer to the big touring car and
the four weeks in this county were
spent in intensively hard work. While
the dentist was working on the teeth
of from twenty to twenty-five chil-
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| Full Text | IN NORTH CAROLINA 25 The following, from the dentist at the close of the Nash County work, is fully up to the standard: "To begin with the work in Nash County was very satisfactory. We had viry good clinics, but not as good at Dr Jordan and myself would have nked There were very few days that we didn't have a good crowd I am confident that the people of Nash County are awake to the fact that they should take care of their chii dren's teeth. They have been sadly Boys who have just had their teeth treated in Nash County Free Dental Clinic, Salem Schoolhouse, July 16, 19l». neglected and a few lectures from us Sid lots of good I can safely say tha 75 ner cent of the six-year molars were decayed. If these teeth weren't too bad I Y at least fixed one of them and then tried to impress it upon the parents why they should, have the others fixed. I consider the six-year molars the most important teeth in the head and I think theyshould re-ceive first consideration. Where these toeth were too bad for me to treat I insisted on the parents taking the child to town to a dentist for treat-m "Our method of working in Nash County, I think, was by far the best plan so far tried. We worked seven weeks there and visited thirty schools We grouped our schools in different sections and called several schools to the most central point. By doing this we reached every community in the county. Of course we did not have every child, but we did get the largest part of them. I can safely say that ev"ery child that came to our clinics went away with something done to him I had several people meet me on the street in Nashville and ex-press their sorrow at missing our clinics in their neighborhood, lhat shows that the people who did go have been talking and getting their neigh-bors interested. I was talking to a dentist in Rocky Mount one day and he said that he had never seen or heard of so many children being rushed to dentists before He said he had been swamped with them, lhat also slows that this work is a great success The time is coming when the people who take to preventive medi- Sne P and dentistry are going to he the leaders in everything, while, the others are going to sit back and pay the doc tors' bills." Treatment Total number children treated . . 665 Amount and class of treatment: Amalgam fillings 4* Cement fillings Silver nitrate fillings *» Abscesses treated Teeth extracted 6™ Teeth cleaned Miscellaneous treatments ' Children needing nothing done . . 5 Children unmanageable NORTHAMPTON COUNTY The clinics in Northampton were distinctive in that the whole splendidly organized health department, together with the county school officials and the farm demonstrator all actively coop-erated A Ford truck was equipped as a trailer to the big touring car and the four weeks in this county were spent in intensively hard work. While the dentist was working on the teeth of from twenty to twenty-five chil- |
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