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The dash for dentures: the turbulent introduction of NHS dentistry
1Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge.
British Dental Journal
|August 14, 1998
Abstract:
With the formal launch of the National Health Service on the evening of Sunday, July 4, 1948, the pattern of dental treatment in Britain changed 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 about?