MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1988
"AS
AGO
LONG
AS A RECOMMENDED
MEDICAL THE 1973,
ONE RATIO OF TARGET
DEVELOPMENT
DENTIST
HE SAID.
то
ADVISORY 6,000
COMMITTEE POPULATION, AND THIS WAS ACCEPTED BY THE GOVERNMENT, "
SITUATION
HAS
HAS BEEN
THE
CHANGED. OF DENTISTRY BUILT AND BROUGHT INTO
RADICALLY "SINCE THAT TIME PRINCE PHILIP DENTAL HOSPITAL, WHICH HOUSES THE FACULTY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF HONG
OPERATION.
THE
KONG,
"THIS VERY FINE INSTITUTION
PRODUCED ITS FIRST BATCH OF THE DENTISTS TRAINED
GRADUATES IN 1985, AND IN ADDITION FAR MORE OF OVERSEAS ARE NOW RETURNING TO HONG KONG TO WORK.
"AS A RESULT OF THESE DEVELOPMENTS, THE TARGET OF TO 6,000 POPULATION HAS NOW BEEN ACHIEVED AND THERE ARE NOW MORE 1,000 DENTISTS IN HONG KONG, ABOUT THREE-QUARTERS OF THEM
THE
SECTOR, PUBLIC PRACTICE AND THE REMAINDER IN GOVERNMENT AND THE UNIVERSITY OR THE AIDED HOSPITALS.
ONE DENTIST
THAN IN PRIVATE
EITHER
WITH
THE
MR CHAMBERS SAID
THE HONG KONG
MAINLY TOWARDS
DENTAL GOVERNMENT'S
CARE PREVENTIVE
HEALTH SCHOOL
POLICY HAD BEEN DIRECTED DENTAL SERVICE, ORAL HEALTH EDUCATION AND WATER FLUORIDATION.
ELSEWHERE,
WE HAVE
THAT OF THE ORAL HEALTH
DISCOVERED **AS HAS HAPPENED FLUORIDATION OF THE WATER SUPPLY WHICH BEGAN IN 1961, IS ONE
LOCAL HELPED HAVE
MAJOR FACTORS WHICH CONDITIONS," HE SAID.
ΤΟ IMPROVE
HAD BEEN "DRAMATIC IMPROVEMENTS IN TERMS OF CARIES PREVALENCE
MRAN INDEX
MISSING AND OF DECAYED, EXPERIENCED. FOR EXAMPLE, THE
0.21 FILLED TEETH OF 6 8 YEAR-OLDS HAS FALLEN FROM 2.70 IN 1960 TO IN 1987.
-
"THE CORRESPONDING FIGURE FOR 9
4.36 IN 1960 TO 0.95 IN 1987.
-
11 YEAR-OLDS HAS FALLEN FROM
"FOR THOSE AGED 15
19 AND
35
-
DECREASED FROM 4.6 TO 1.7 AND FROM 11.3 TO 1968 AND 1984."
AT TODAY'S CEREMONY,
MR
YEARS,
44
THE INCIDENCE 7.3 RESPECTIVELY BETWEEN
CHAMBERS WELCOMED ALL
DELEGATES,
ESPECIALLY THOSE FROM OVERSEAS, ON BEHALF OF THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT.
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