[Report 1935] / School Medical Officer of Health, Leeds City.

  • Leeds City Council
Date:
1935
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Credit: [Report 1935] / School Medical Officer of Health, Leeds City. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    4° for this but in all likelihood the simplest explanations are the true ones. The great majority of children have turned seven years of age when they receive their first treatment and the 11-12 children have naturally by that age a great many more teeth in the arch. Summary of Fillings. Number of Per cent. Number of Fillings. to total. teeth filled.' Silicate . . .538 2 • I 452 Cement . . 493 1-9 414 Amalgam 13.030 50-5 io,744 Cement and Amalgam 11,320 43-9 9,508 Cement and Silicate 423 1 -6 355 Total . . 25,804 — 2C743 Teeth are sometimes presented in a condition which, although not septic, renders them unsuitable for tilling, and where it ;is desirable that they should be retained in the mouth, if only for a time, so that the formation of the arch may not be marred, other methods of conserving them must be resorted to. Hypoplastic molars, a condition where the crown of the tooth is pitted and “ spikey through imperfect calcification of the enamel forming a ready trap for food debris, are given a self-cleaning surface sometimes in conjunction with silver nitrate. In all, by one method or another 21,8-]2 permanent teeth have been made artifically sound which represents a ratio of permanent teeth saved to unsaveable permanent teeth extracted under routine treatment in the order of approximately 5 to 1. Many children exhibit conditions of gingivitis and gum hyper¬ trophy, often but not always due to lack of mouth cleanliness, and for these cases the atomisers and electric cautery on the Units have proved of great value. In the few weeks since the installation of the X-Ray plant some 50 cases have benefited by its use. This addition to the ordinary methods of clinical diagnosis has proved invaluable in detecting the presence or otherwise of unerupted teeth, suspected antrums, root fillings, cysts, fractured teeth, facial injuries, frontal sinus cases, etc.