Dental Licentiate

He is a semiindependent operator trained for 2 years. Their dental knowledge and skill are equivalent to New Zealand dental nurse. They work under a wider variety of conditions and for all age. Their functions include dental prophylaxis, cavity preparation and fillings of primary and permanent teeth, extraction under local anaesthesia, drainage of dental abscesses, treatment of prevalent diseases of supporting tissues, early recognition of serious conditions. They are responsible to the chief of the regional or local health service. Their service would probably occur in rural or frontier areas and so, supervision and control would probably be remote.