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Gap in dental care claimed

Posted in Dental Health News by Dion Kramer on September 18, 2007

This is an article that recetly appeared on ABC Online News.

A Hobart dentist claims no emergency dental treatment will be available on Sundays when he goes on holiday in a fortnight.

Dr Michael Young says he is the only practitioner providing dental care in Hobart on Sundays.

Dr Young wants the Health Department to fully equip the dental unit at the Royal Hobart Hospital so that it can also provide emergency dental services.

“As I’m going on holiday, which involves two weekends, there will be no service at all for anybody in Hobart and to me it’s a bad situation,” Dr Young said.

The Director of Oral Health Services, Siobhan Harpur, says talks are continuing with the Australian Dental Association for out-of-hours emergency care for private patients at the Royal Hobart Hospital.

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