Municipal dental care in free-decay

    21st May 2009 ( News )

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    Dental chairs are being patched with duct tape and during treatment must be supported with a clinic assistant's knees lest they should fall together. It may be the 840 children on waiting lists across Nordfyns municipality can look forward to.

    According Fyens Stiftstidende equipped in the north of Funen municipal dental care in as much due to the frankly fell apart if it were not for duct tape and clinic assistants physical support during treatment. Also drills are so mutilated that they overheat, foot pedals must also be repaired with duct tape and weary head restraints as dental assistants must keep up with knees to ensure that the larger children's heads did not suddenly fall backwards during treatment.

    Nordfyns Municipality recognizes the problem
    In an internal investigation gets more than half of the municipality's 12 dental chairs and related equipment as stated on the municipality's four dental clinics failing grade. The chairs are so old that they no longer can get parts. And last year alone ran up the maintenance of 124,000 pounds.

    In addition to the extensive equipment problems in the municipal dental clinics are currently no fewer than 840 children on waiting lists for everything from simple analysis to bracket processing.

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