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By E lsie Paisley, R. C. N urse of Saline County, A rkansas.— Public H ealth Nurse, Cleveland, April, C A L IF O R N IA
Service. Now, the reverse is true. Seven counties have taken over a num ber of these dental hygienists in th eir school work. T hese counties are: C ontra Costa, Alam eda, San Francisco, Merced, Fresno, K ern and Los Angeles. IO W A
has given Instruction was given to 418, $22,500 to th e Child W elfare R esearch 693 children and adults on th e proper Station of the S tate U niversity of Iowa, care of the m outh during the last of which Professor Bird T. Baldwin is eighteen m onths by the Division of director. T he sum will be paid in three M outh H ygiene, California S tate Board yearly installm ents.—Journal Am erican of H ealth. M edical A ssociation, Chicago, M arch 31, Of these 57,193 w ere children, and 1923. approxim ately 10,000 w ere adults. The KENTUCKY Division’s films reached 7,500. Its litera “C h ild W e lfa re in K e n tu c k y ” : A series tu re on “The Care of the T eeth ” was dis of thirteen four-m inute addresses p re tributed am ong 20,000 school children pared by experts on various phases of and adults. Its exhibits reached approxi elfare work, at the request of the m ately 320,000 during the last three Kchild-w entucky Sunday School Association, to m onths. D ental exam inations have been be given by radio. T hey appear under m ade of 4,000 school children, and this title in pam phlet form, w ith supple records of the conditions found, filed for m entary references for the use of Sun statistical inform ation. day School classes.—Published by the Of the fifty-eight counties in the state K entucky Sunday School A ssociation, fifty-two have received assistance from Miss Frances Ingram , Louisville, E ditor. this departm ent, outside of th e regular M ASSACH U SETTS visits and program s conducted in the “H e a lth E q u ip m e n t In F r a m in g h a m — field. F orty counties have been visited. In m ost of these counties, oral hygiene T hen and N o w .” by Donald B. A rm strong, program s w ere conducted. And as a M.D., Executive Officer, and A. K. Stone, result, nearly half are already w orking M.D., A dm inistrative Director, Fram ing on definite program s to provide dental ham, Mass. An account of the changes in the m a service for school children. A,s a further resu lt of the departm ent’s activities, chinery for com bating tuberculosis m ade fifteen counties are asking for dental in Fram ingham during the six years since hygienists, and it is hoped th a t these the com m unity health and tuberculosis counties will be provided for in the fall. dem onstration was undertaken in th a t W hen the Division of D ental H ygiene city by th e N ational Tuberculosis Associ began its work, tw o-thirds of the dental ation and the M etropolitan Life Insurance hygienists (nineteen in total num ber) Company. Tuberculosis has decreased 55 w ere w orking eith er in private offices or1 per cent and the general death rate 16 in the U nited States Public H ealth per cent since 1917. A lm ost the entire 543 C a lifo r n ia n s H y g ie n e :
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program o£ the dem onstration has been assum ed by the local com m unity, to be continued by it perm anently.—N ation’s H ealth, Chicago, M arch, 1923. GENERAL R och e ster D en tal D isp e n sa ry Budget
D isbursem ents Expended E stim ated 1921 1922 D ental ..................... $33,068.28 $34,000.00 E xtractin g ............ 3,446.12 3,500.00 9,000.00 O rthodontia .......... 7,668.28 X-ray ....................... 1,386.92 500.00 Surgical ................ 10,530.50 12,000.00 Clinics and lectures .............. 100.00 250.00 L ibrary .................. 23.00 25.00 Office ....................... 542.56 900.00 Building ................ 653.72 800.00 40,000.00 G eneral .................. 35,621.91 K enilw orth T errace .............. 164.90 600.00 $93,606.19 $101,575.00 REPO RT
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R och e ste r D en tal D isp e n sa ry F in a n c ia l S ta te m e n t
D isbursem ents 1920 1921 D ental .......... $20,656.88 $33,068.28 E xtracting 2,754.63 3,446.12 O rthodontia 4,795.14 7,668.28 X-ray ............ 95.67 1,386.92 Surgical 23,692.44 10,530.50 Clinics and lectures 100.00 L ibrary 20.63 23.00 Office ............ 929.36 942.56 Building 175.33 653.72 G eneral ........ 32,229.03 35,621.91 K enilw orth T errace 283.26 164.90 $89,632.37 $93,606.19 S ch o o l A c c o u n t— H ygienists & pub lic s c h o o l s , salaries an d supplies $25,546.58 $28,765.47 $115,178.95 $122,371.66
RO CHESTER
1922
DENTAL
D IS P E N S A R Y
Jan. Feb. March April May June July Aug.* Number of visits........................ 5,456 5,330 7,090 5,530 5,898 4,900 3,822 2,782 Tooth treatments ...................... 286 270 417 288 214 256 175 128 Root treatments ........................ 165 126 122 121 139 120 82 45 Gum treatments ........................ 173 304 304 261 220 215 123 40 811. nitrate treatments............. 898 890 1,046 977 750 710 534 448 Orthodontia treatments ......... 634 615 802 766 960 723 653 733 Prophylactic treatments........... 159 150 183 147 179 100 85 39 Abscess treatments..................... 13 23 35 20 33 28 4 7 Iioot fillings.................................. 66 92 73 95 86 52 46 9 Amalgam fillings......................... 1,987 2,050 3,076 2,406 2,248 1,907 1,310 793 Synthetic fillings.......................... 220 194 149 131 149 126 102 82 Guttapercha fillings................... 171 191 163 166 150 150 132 81 X-rays ......................................... 144 102 152 157 160 104 113 74 Root extractions......................... 199 213 256 168 149 102 53 39 Tooth extractions........................ 1,105 1,140 1,689 1,210 1,441 1,019 673 507 Inlays ......................................... 6 9 ' 7 3 3 3 12 3 36 72 62 69 37 46 24 Pulps devitalized........................ 45 Pulp pressure............................... 2 4 4 8 .... 5 5 1 Tulps capped ......... .................... 41 45 41 42 17 25 16 28 Crowns .......................................... 3 4 1 2 1 3 9 1 Plates ............................................ 2 3 7 4 1 4 Bridge ............................................................... 1 ...................................................................... Number of visits........................ 5,456 5,33» 7,090 5,530 5,898 4,900 3,822 2,782 Number of patients paid 5c a Visit .................................... 4,656 4,598 6,041 4,707 5,071 4,275 3,271 2,388 Dismissals .................................... 585 745 1,150 803 902 842 775 381 Number of children lectured in schools .................. ........... 6,146 7,114 8,421 5,489 2,493 ................................ Tonsil-adenoid operations...... 131 156 181 141 172 159 154 22 Number of visits to Dispensary from Oct. 15, 1917, to Dec. 1, 1922 Total tonsil-adenoid operations to December 1, 1922................ ....... * Closed for two weeks' vacation.
Sept. Oct. Nov. 4,646 6,186 6,925 247 400 390 74 109 152 151 219 180 1,106 1,338 987 689 905 863 87 119 99 20 32 29 43 60 68 1,388 2,103 2 801 156 205 154 144 180 177 118 244 333 147 202 155 668 1,589 1,425 6 4 1 54 73 6 >i 2 13 27 48 69 78 .... 3 6 1 2 1 4,646 6,186 6,925 3,921 5,236 5 917 829 1,082 973 3,052 6,395 7,479 139 150 164
Medical and Dental News 545 of prevention, the prenatal stage, and F o rsy th D en tal In firm a ry fo r C h ild re n : The volume of clinical work is only a two years after birth. very small part of the real work accom The following is the clinical statement plished by the Forsyth Dental Infirmary of Forsyth Dental Infirmary, for eight years, 1915-1922 inclusive: during its eight years of operation. While not primarily a public educa Total Registration ........................ 122,026 tional institution, its chief work is with Total Visits to Infirmary ......... 640,944 the public dental health, and during its Total Operations .......................... 1,877,656 operation dental prevention has become Total F illin gs.................................. 860,610 Total Canal Treatments ............ 139,178 a real issue. While a great deal of clinical work has Completed Cases, Dental, Nose been done, it has merely been a means and Throat.................................... 102,550 to an end to permit the working of an Nose and Throat Examination.... 36,491 underlying policy of prevention. This is Adenoids and Tonsil Operations 5,783 246 shown more definitely in the reduction of Oral Surgery Operations ........... the age of initial treatm ent which has Anesthesia Cases, Extracting. .. 110,011 dropped during this period from 13.6 to Total No. Extractions ................ 296,077 Temporary Teeth .................... 245,164 6 years. The policy by which the work has been done is to gradually approach 6th Year Molars ...................... 47,637 a time or an age when real preventive No. Dental Prophylaxis Treat ments ............................................ 197,724 work can be done. This process is naturally slow, but has been kept con No. Buttons a/c Clean Teeth..... 11,658 stantly in mind from the beginning and No. Class Certificates “All every type of reparative dentistry ar Dental Work Completed”......... 1,106 ranged to assist in reaching the goal. Even Children Attending Clinic with today it is impossible to obtain any great Clean Teeth, per c e n t............. 88 13.5 interest from the public in dental mat Average Age 1915, years............ ters before the child has a tooth present, Average Age 1922, years .......... 6.5 whereas this time is really too late to The following statement is lay the proper foundation of true pre for the years 1921 to 1922: ventive dentistry. No. of Pupils Receiving Prophy The general underlying policy of the lactic Treatment ...................... 45,031 conduct of the Forsyth Clinic has and No. of Pupils in “Entire Classes” is to do enough curative work to keep Treated ........................................ 7,560 its staff busy in alleviating the ills of Total Number of “All Dental children who have not had the oppor Work Completed” .................... 39,774 tunity of a good dental prenatal founda 947 Classes tion and simultaneously to approach as —The Dental Hygiene News Letter, rapidly as possible to the real period December, 1922. "I bet its another reminder from the AUER/CAN DENTAL ASSOCIATION to attend the Cleveland Convention^ Se p t 10thto14th *
By E lsie Paisley, R. C. N urse of Saline County, A rkansas.— Public H ealth Nurse, Cleveland, April, C A L IF O R N IA
Service. Now, the reverse is true. Seven counties have taken over a num ber of these dental hygienists in th eir school work. T hese counties are: C ontra Costa, Alam eda, San Francisco, Merced, Fresno, K ern and Los Angeles. IO W A
has given Instruction was given to 418, $22,500 to th e Child W elfare R esearch 693 children and adults on th e proper Station of the S tate U niversity of Iowa, care of the m outh during the last of which Professor Bird T. Baldwin is eighteen m onths by the Division of director. T he sum will be paid in three M outh H ygiene, California S tate Board yearly installm ents.—Journal Am erican of H ealth. M edical A ssociation, Chicago, M arch 31, Of these 57,193 w ere children, and 1923. approxim ately 10,000 w ere adults. The KENTUCKY Division’s films reached 7,500. Its litera “C h ild W e lfa re in K e n tu c k y ” : A series tu re on “The Care of the T eeth ” was dis of thirteen four-m inute addresses p re tributed am ong 20,000 school children pared by experts on various phases of and adults. Its exhibits reached approxi elfare work, at the request of the m ately 320,000 during the last three Kchild-w entucky Sunday School Association, to m onths. D ental exam inations have been be given by radio. T hey appear under m ade of 4,000 school children, and this title in pam phlet form, w ith supple records of the conditions found, filed for m entary references for the use of Sun statistical inform ation. day School classes.—Published by the Of the fifty-eight counties in the state K entucky Sunday School A ssociation, fifty-two have received assistance from Miss Frances Ingram , Louisville, E ditor. this departm ent, outside of th e regular M ASSACH U SETTS visits and program s conducted in the “H e a lth E q u ip m e n t In F r a m in g h a m — field. F orty counties have been visited. In m ost of these counties, oral hygiene T hen and N o w .” by Donald B. A rm strong, program s w ere conducted. And as a M.D., Executive Officer, and A. K. Stone, result, nearly half are already w orking M.D., A dm inistrative Director, Fram ing on definite program s to provide dental ham, Mass. An account of the changes in the m a service for school children. A,s a further resu lt of the departm ent’s activities, chinery for com bating tuberculosis m ade fifteen counties are asking for dental in Fram ingham during the six years since hygienists, and it is hoped th a t these the com m unity health and tuberculosis counties will be provided for in the fall. dem onstration was undertaken in th a t W hen the Division of D ental H ygiene city by th e N ational Tuberculosis Associ began its work, tw o-thirds of the dental ation and the M etropolitan Life Insurance hygienists (nineteen in total num ber) Company. Tuberculosis has decreased 55 w ere w orking eith er in private offices or1 per cent and the general death rate 16 in the U nited States Public H ealth per cent since 1917. A lm ost the entire 543 C a lifo r n ia n s H y g ie n e :
L e arn
V a lu e
of
M o uth
T h e R ock e fe lle r Fou nd atio n
The Journal of the American Dental Association
544
program o£ the dem onstration has been assum ed by the local com m unity, to be continued by it perm anently.—N ation’s H ealth, Chicago, M arch, 1923. GENERAL R och e ster D en tal D isp e n sa ry Budget
D isbursem ents Expended E stim ated 1921 1922 D ental ..................... $33,068.28 $34,000.00 E xtractin g ............ 3,446.12 3,500.00 9,000.00 O rthodontia .......... 7,668.28 X-ray ....................... 1,386.92 500.00 Surgical ................ 10,530.50 12,000.00 Clinics and lectures .............. 100.00 250.00 L ibrary .................. 23.00 25.00 Office ....................... 542.56 900.00 Building ................ 653.72 800.00 40,000.00 G eneral .................. 35,621.91 K enilw orth T errace .............. 164.90 600.00 $93,606.19 $101,575.00 REPO RT
OF
W ORK
DONE
BY
R och e ste r D en tal D isp e n sa ry F in a n c ia l S ta te m e n t
D isbursem ents 1920 1921 D ental .......... $20,656.88 $33,068.28 E xtracting 2,754.63 3,446.12 O rthodontia 4,795.14 7,668.28 X-ray ............ 95.67 1,386.92 Surgical 23,692.44 10,530.50 Clinics and lectures 100.00 L ibrary 20.63 23.00 Office ............ 929.36 942.56 Building 175.33 653.72 G eneral ........ 32,229.03 35,621.91 K enilw orth T errace 283.26 164.90 $89,632.37 $93,606.19 S ch o o l A c c o u n t— H ygienists & pub lic s c h o o l s , salaries an d supplies $25,546.58 $28,765.47 $115,178.95 $122,371.66
RO CHESTER
1922
DENTAL
D IS P E N S A R Y
Jan. Feb. March April May June July Aug.* Number of visits........................ 5,456 5,330 7,090 5,530 5,898 4,900 3,822 2,782 Tooth treatments ...................... 286 270 417 288 214 256 175 128 Root treatments ........................ 165 126 122 121 139 120 82 45 Gum treatments ........................ 173 304 304 261 220 215 123 40 811. nitrate treatments............. 898 890 1,046 977 750 710 534 448 Orthodontia treatments ......... 634 615 802 766 960 723 653 733 Prophylactic treatments........... 159 150 183 147 179 100 85 39 Abscess treatments..................... 13 23 35 20 33 28 4 7 Iioot fillings.................................. 66 92 73 95 86 52 46 9 Amalgam fillings......................... 1,987 2,050 3,076 2,406 2,248 1,907 1,310 793 Synthetic fillings.......................... 220 194 149 131 149 126 102 82 Guttapercha fillings................... 171 191 163 166 150 150 132 81 X-rays ......................................... 144 102 152 157 160 104 113 74 Root extractions......................... 199 213 256 168 149 102 53 39 Tooth extractions........................ 1,105 1,140 1,689 1,210 1,441 1,019 673 507 Inlays ......................................... 6 9 ' 7 3 3 3 12 3 36 72 62 69 37 46 24 Pulps devitalized........................ 45 Pulp pressure............................... 2 4 4 8 .... 5 5 1 Tulps capped ......... .................... 41 45 41 42 17 25 16 28 Crowns .......................................... 3 4 1 2 1 3 9 1 Plates ............................................ 2 3 7 4 1 4 Bridge ............................................................... 1 ...................................................................... Number of visits........................ 5,456 5,33» 7,090 5,530 5,898 4,900 3,822 2,782 Number of patients paid 5c a Visit .................................... 4,656 4,598 6,041 4,707 5,071 4,275 3,271 2,388 Dismissals .................................... 585 745 1,150 803 902 842 775 381 Number of children lectured in schools .................. ........... 6,146 7,114 8,421 5,489 2,493 ................................ Tonsil-adenoid operations...... 131 156 181 141 172 159 154 22 Number of visits to Dispensary from Oct. 15, 1917, to Dec. 1, 1922 Total tonsil-adenoid operations to December 1, 1922................ ....... * Closed for two weeks' vacation.
Sept. Oct. Nov. 4,646 6,186 6,925 247 400 390 74 109 152 151 219 180 1,106 1,338 987 689 905 863 87 119 99 20 32 29 43 60 68 1,388 2,103 2 801 156 205 154 144 180 177 118 244 333 147 202 155 668 1,589 1,425 6 4 1 54 73 6 >i 2 13 27 48 69 78 .... 3 6 1 2 1 4,646 6,186 6,925 3,921 5,236 5 917 829 1,082 973 3,052 6,395 7,479 139 150 164
Medical and Dental News 545 of prevention, the prenatal stage, and F o rsy th D en tal In firm a ry fo r C h ild re n : The volume of clinical work is only a two years after birth. very small part of the real work accom The following is the clinical statement plished by the Forsyth Dental Infirmary of Forsyth Dental Infirmary, for eight years, 1915-1922 inclusive: during its eight years of operation. While not primarily a public educa Total Registration ........................ 122,026 tional institution, its chief work is with Total Visits to Infirmary ......... 640,944 the public dental health, and during its Total Operations .......................... 1,877,656 operation dental prevention has become Total F illin gs.................................. 860,610 Total Canal Treatments ............ 139,178 a real issue. While a great deal of clinical work has Completed Cases, Dental, Nose been done, it has merely been a means and Throat.................................... 102,550 to an end to permit the working of an Nose and Throat Examination.... 36,491 underlying policy of prevention. This is Adenoids and Tonsil Operations 5,783 246 shown more definitely in the reduction of Oral Surgery Operations ........... the age of initial treatm ent which has Anesthesia Cases, Extracting. .. 110,011 dropped during this period from 13.6 to Total No. Extractions ................ 296,077 Temporary Teeth .................... 245,164 6 years. The policy by which the work has been done is to gradually approach 6th Year Molars ...................... 47,637 a time or an age when real preventive No. Dental Prophylaxis Treat ments ............................................ 197,724 work can be done. This process is naturally slow, but has been kept con No. Buttons a/c Clean Teeth..... 11,658 stantly in mind from the beginning and No. Class Certificates “All every type of reparative dentistry ar Dental Work Completed”......... 1,106 ranged to assist in reaching the goal. Even Children Attending Clinic with today it is impossible to obtain any great Clean Teeth, per c e n t............. 88 13.5 interest from the public in dental mat Average Age 1915, years............ ters before the child has a tooth present, Average Age 1922, years .......... 6.5 whereas this time is really too late to The following statement is lay the proper foundation of true pre for the years 1921 to 1922: ventive dentistry. No. of Pupils Receiving Prophy The general underlying policy of the lactic Treatment ...................... 45,031 conduct of the Forsyth Clinic has and No. of Pupils in “Entire Classes” is to do enough curative work to keep Treated ........................................ 7,560 its staff busy in alleviating the ills of Total Number of “All Dental children who have not had the oppor Work Completed” .................... 39,774 tunity of a good dental prenatal founda 947 Classes tion and simultaneously to approach as —The Dental Hygiene News Letter, rapidly as possible to the real period December, 1922. "I bet its another reminder from the AUER/CAN DENTAL ASSOCIATION to attend the Cleveland Convention^ Se p t 10thto14th *