XN000022-1988-09-05 — Page 5

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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