Dentist!
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Vila Welcomes Sydney Dentist!
From Our Own Correspondent VILA, October 6.
ALTHOUGH one normally does not look forward to a visit to (or from) a dentist, we were glad to welcome Dr.
T. E. Gibson, of Sydney, when he arrived in Vila on a professional visit on Sep tember 20.
Dr. Gibson’s makeshift surgery was opened at the Hotel Holland the day of his arrival and he continued practice un til October 4, Normal dental facilities in the New Hebrides are restricted to extractions or not over-successful fillings performed by a semi-trained medical assistant at the British Hospital on Iririki. While in no way detracting from this young man’s skill, adequate dental attention for resi dents of the New Hebrides is non-exis tent. For expert care, with full equip ment, locals must wait upon the yearly visits of itinerant dentists, some of whom have, in the past, left behind them repu tations for fantastic prices and unsatis factory work; or go South.