The Archive · 1922

Dentists in Shanghai

To the Editor of the "Norru-Cuina Dairy News."

Sir,—Is it not about time that the municipal Council should investigate and license _properly all inviduals who are engaged in the Settlement as practising dental surgeons?

"I have observed recently several new dental establishments which have been opened in the Settlement by different parties who have and are still advertising themselves as dental surgeons. Some of these parties so engaged have no diploma, nor licence to practise, and certainly are nothing more than dental quacks. In this way they have been able to fool the larger part of the unsuspecting public in general. The only knowledge of dentistry which most of these so-called new establishments possess is what the owners have acquired from the reading of books, ete., and certainly not through actual experience and practice.

I have heard of several complaints regarding this matter and I should think the Municipal authorities have sufficient power to act in this affair, for no doubt the necessary legislation is sufficient and if this is the case, it should be enforced pro-

I know of one particul: flag-case where a certain in-

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