THURSDAY, SEPTEM: 7 28, 1989
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STUDY ON EXTENSION OF SCHOOL DENTAL SERVICE NEEDED
SAID TODAY (THURSDAY I LOOK AT THE FEASIBILITY OF COVER PRE-SCHOOL AND
LEGISLATIVE COUNCILLOR DR HENRIETTA IP THAT THERE WAS A NEED TO TAKE A CLOSER EXTENDING THE PRESENT SCHOOL DENTAL SERVICE TO SECONDARY SCHOOL CHILDREN.
DR IP WAS SPEAKING AT THE OPENING
CEREMONY OF THE TUEN MUN
SCHOOL DENTAL CLINIC.
FUTURE
A REVISED FRAMEWORK SHE SAID THE NEED FOR
FOR
ORAL IN ORAL DISEASE PATTERNS, HEALTH CARE HAD INCREASED DUE TO CHANGES CHANGES
DISEASE
INTERVENTION, PREVENTION CONCEPTS OF DEMOGRAPHIC CHANGES AND CHANGES IN ORAL CARE TECHNOLOGY.
IN
"THE
SUCH A
OR
OF IMPLEMENTATION
WOULD PROPOSAL ANOTHER STEP FORWARD IN THE HISTORY OF DEVELOPMENT OF DENTAL IN HONG KONG," SHE SAID.
DR IP DESCRIBED THE PROGRESS OF DENTISTRY THE PAST DECADE OR SO AS "VERY IMPRESSIVE"
FOLLOWING
THE
SETTING
UP
CONSTITUTE SERVICES
IN HONG KONG OVER
OF
KIN DENTAL THE TANG SHIU THE SCHOOL DENTAL SERVICE FOR PRIMARY SCHOOL CHILDREN WAS INTRODUCED TWO YEARS LATER, SHE NOTED.
THERAPISTS TRAINING SCHOOL IN 1978,
DURING THE SAME YEAR, THE PRINCE THE TRAINING OF DENTISTS WAS ESTABLISHED.
PHILIP DENTAL
HOSPITAL. FOR
DENTAL CLINICS THE OPENING
STREET,
BETWEEN 1980 AND 1988, DR IP SAID, FOUR SCHOOL
KOWLOON FOLLOWED BY WERE ESTABLISHED IN HONG KONG AND EARLIER THIS YEAR OF THE ORAL HEALTH EDUCATION UNIT IN ARGYLE KOWLOON.
THE SCHOOL EFFICIENT
AND
EARLIER, THE DIRECTOR OF HEALTH, DR S.H. LEE, SAID DENTAL SERVICE SCHEME HAD BEEN RECOGNISED AS A SIMPLE, COST-EFFECTIVE DENTAL SERVICE FOR CHILDREN IN HONG KONG.
SINCE ITS INTRODUCTION IN 1980, THE NUMBER OF PARTICIPANTS SOARED FROM 27.000 TO 370,000. HE SAID.
HAD
CHILDREN HAD 30 PER CENT LESS AS A RESULT, PRIMARY SCHOOL
AND PARTICIPANTS DENTAL DECAY THAN THEY DID AT THE BEGINNING OF 1980,
PER CENT
DECAYED FEWER OF THE SCHEME HAD 50
NON-PARTICIPANTS AS SHOWN IN RECENT SURVEYS.
TEETH COMPARED
WITH
IT FORMED PART CLINICS ON
TURNING TO THE NEW SCHOOL CLINIC. DR LEE SAID OF THE GOVERNMENT'S OVERALL PLAN TO DEVELOP SCHOOL DENTAL A REGIONAL BASIS.
/THE CLINIC