Excerpt from Oral Health, Vol. 10
No longer is the intelligent patient satisfied to have his ruined teeth patched up, but he is seeking that treatment which will preserve for him healthy and efficient masticating organs and a mouth that is clean and free from infection. The solution is simple and practicable. It consists in regular inspection and immediate treatment, with proper instruction and supervision in oral cleanliness, mastication and diet. For children of school and pre-school age, this inspection and supervision should be conducted at the school, the parents bringing the smaller children at an appointed time and securing advice in regard to the ways and means whereby the home may co-operate with the school in the care of the children's teeth. Those who can afford it will have the family dentist perform the necessary operations, while school dental clinics provide treatment for the remainder. Such a system would mean that during school days habits of cleanliness would be established which would become permanent. Deciduous and permanent teeth would be preserved, food values would be recognized, and the importance of proper mastication realized; in short, the causes of nearly all diseases incident to child life would be eliminated.
In no country has the need for an improved dental service been go clearly recognized by the authorities as in Great Britain. The examinations for military enlistment revealed the fact that the mouths of the people were in a deplorable condition, and that the health of the nation had suffered as a result. When the dentists were called up for military service it became apparent that the number of qualified dentists in Great Britain was totally inadequate for the needs of the civilian population, apart from the army and navy. The acuteness of the situation forced the Government to appoint a Royal Commission to conduct an inquiry into the whole matter. This Commission heard evidence from all those interested in public health, and after a careful survey of the question from every angle, presented a very valuable report, containing, among many others, the following recommendations:
Section XXIV. - Education of the Public in the Need for Dental Treatment.
226. We have had the most striking unanimity in all the evidence we have heard from both registered and unregistered practitioners as to the failure of the population to regard dental disease and its effect on health as in any way a serious matter. The idea that the teeth are a portion of the human body which when they are diseased need treatment is quite foreign to all accepted notions. Disease is allowed to progress until it becomes incurable and the teeth have to be removed.
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