THE DASH FOR DENTURES - THE TURBULENT INTRODUCTION OF NHS DENTISTRY

Authors
KING RS
Citation
Rs. King, THE DASH FOR DENTURES - THE TURBULENT INTRODUCTION OF NHS DENTISTRY, British Dental Journal, 185(1), 1998, pp. 14-18
Citations number
30
Categorie Soggetti
Dentistry,Oral Surgery & Medicine
Journal title
British Dental Journal → ACNP
ISSN journal
00070610
Volume
185
Issue
1
Year of publication
1998
Pages
14 - 18
Database
ISI
SICI code
0007-0610(1998)185:1<14:TDFD-T>2.0.ZU;2-M
Abstract
With the formal launch of the National Health Service on the evening o f Sunday, July 4, 1948, the pattern of dental treatment in Britain cha nged dramatically. This change altered the lives of everyone connected with the provision of this treatment and, for dentists in particular, working life would never be the same again. But how did they come abo ut?