The School Dentist

People tell me that the dental service in Brunei is not as it should be. Most people especially children only visit their dentist when the ‘tooth hits the fan’. Whatever happened to see  your dentist every 6 months ?

Anyway, have you seen how busy the government dentists are during the school holidays ? It is like every parent had the same checklist for their children during the school holidays.

It would be far more efficient if the dental services coordinated themselves so that they would see school children thru out the year instead of ‘as when really needed’.

A primary school can have around 500 to 1000 school children, perhaps a mobile dental unit, equipped with mobile dental Xray equipment could be place for two weeks to one month at each school. This dental unit would review schoolchildren by their class and when the whole school has been seen, they move on to the next school.

yes, I know talk about painful school ! but what must be done, must be done !

The time it would save for parents from having to leave work or home, and then finding parking at their normal dental units.

Of course, schoolchildren would have to have the consent forms for their parents to fill in first before the dentist sees them

If you could do this with schools, you could do this at shopping malls, government centres/buildings too

Check this out:

http://www.nhcgov.com/AgnAndDpt/HLTH/DH/Pages/DH-MobileDentalUnit.aspx

http://www.flbaptist.org/Default.aspx?TabId=606

http://www.medcoach.com/products/dental/

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