[Report 1913] / School Medical Officer, Nottinghamshire County Council.

  • Nottinghamshire (England). County Council.
Date:
1913
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Credit: [Report 1913] / School Medical Officer, Nottinghamshire County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    MR. H. W. MACE’S REPORT. [Copy]. Elston School Dental Clinic. Report for 12 months ending December 81st, 1918. During the 12 months ending December 31st, 1913, 25 children have been examined and charted. Of this number 10 were boys and 15 girls, ranging in ages from 4 to 13 years. The condition of the mouth and teeth was on the whole unsatisfactory, few children giving the impression that a tooth brush was used regularly, whilst in the majority of cases it was evidently never used. TEMPORARY TEETH. 144 teeth were charted of which 63 or 43-75 per cent, were sound. 41 or 28-47 per cent, were savable. 40 or 27*77 per cent, were unsavable. Owing to lack of funds no temporary teeth were filled or otherwise treated except by extraction in urgent cases. PERMANENT TEETH. 408 teeth were charted of which 328 or 80-89 per cent, were sound. 59 or 14-46 per cent, were savable. 21 or 5-14 per cent, were unsavable. 1-44 per cent, of the permanent teeth had already been extracted. Four children (2 boys and 2 girls) or 16% had perfectly sound sets of permanent teeth. The total number of fillings inserted was 77. This exceeds the number of permanent teeth savable (59) as several teeth required filling in more than one place. The average number of fillings per child treated was 3-66. At the commencement of the clinic, permanent teeth too badly decayed to be rendered permanently satisfactory by filling, were extracted, but this was shortly discontinued (except in the cases where toothache was complained of) as it was found it made all the children too nervous for other work to be properly carried out. The conduct of the children was excellent, only one child, a girl, age 8, being too nervous to allow of the teeth being filled.