Memoranda of evidence on matters of fact submitted on behalf of the Council and of the Board to The Inter-Departmental Committee on Dentistry, 1943-1944.

Date:
[1944?]
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Credit: Memoranda of evidence on matters of fact submitted on behalf of the Council and of the Board to The Inter-Departmental Committee on Dentistry, 1943-1944. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    337/348 (page 323)
    (24) The Board do not recommend that any unregistered persons authorized for the time being under the said statutory conditions to do any work under this head (8) should be pro- hibited by statute from doing any such work either in any public dental service or in private dental practice, or partly in the former and partly in the latter (paragraph 51). 9, DENTAL INSPECTION (25) The expression “ dental inspection ’’ is ambiguous, but any process of inspection which involves examination of the mouth is dental work within the meaning of paragraph (1) of this Summary, and all unregistered persons are prohibited under penalty from doing this work (paragraphs 52-59). (26) The Board recommend that the scope of any work under this head (9) done by unregistered persons should be delimited on the principle that it should continue to be an offence for any persons other than registered dentists, registered medical practi- tioners, or bona fide dental or medical students receiving instruc- tion as such, to do any work comprised in the expression “ dental inspection,” save only for the purpose of referring patients, after examination of their mouths, to registered dentists (or registered medical practitioners) (paragraphs 61-66). (27) The Board recommend that the control and supervision of any unregistered persons by whom work under this head (9) is done should be imposed and maintained by statutory conditions identical, mutatis mutandis, with those set out in paragraph (12) of this Summary (paragraph 67). (28) The Board do not recommend that any unregistered persons authorized for the time being under the said statutory conditions to do any work under this head (9) should be prohibited by statute from doing such work either in any public dental service or in private dental practice, or partly in the former and partly in the latter (paragraph 68). 4]