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CHAPTER 11
DENTAL HEALTH
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11.1
In the circumstances of Hong Kong's development
Less
the emphasis to date has been placed on the establishment
of basic medical and personal health services.
attention has accordingly been focussed on the importance
of the dental health of the community as a whole.
Existing dental services
11.2
The need for a
school
Dental
Care
Service
G.F. 323
At present the dentists in the Medical and Health Department provide a full dental service for
Government officers and their families and Government
pensioners. The department also provides simple dental treatment for the inmates of penal institutions, specialist treatment for patients in Government hospitals, and
This
emergency treatment for members of the public. apart, all other dental treatment is carried out by
private practitioners.
11.3
To introduce a general dental service on a scale comparable to the Government's medical services would be an extremely costly development, and one
the
beyond Government's ability at this stage to finance
To this end
or to staff. Such however is the importance increasingly
placed by the community on this aspect of personal health that action to promote dental hygiene and proper
dental care should be vigorously pursued. steps will be taken to establish a school dental service and to provide an improved supply of dentists to the
general public.
11.4
When the School Medical Service was reconstituted
in 1964 no school dental care service was included because
of the shortage of dentists at that time and their
reluctance to join a scheme on the terms proposed by the
/Government
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