Opieka stomatologiczna nad dzieckiem w wieku szkolnym w okresie międzywojennym w latach 1918-1939 z uwzględnieniem Piotrkowa Trybunalskiego

Opieka stomatologiczna nad dzieckiem w wieku szkolnym w okresie międzywojennym w latach 1918-1939 z uwzględnieniem Piotrkowa Trybunalskiego

Dental care of a child of school age in the interwar period in years 1918-1939 in Piotrków Trybunalski

Katarzyna Szymczyk

Health conditions of the Polish society after regaining the independence was very difficult. The low status of its general hygiene determined by disastrous housing and, therefore, sanitary situation, undoubtedly influenced the level and quality of life of children and adolescents. In particular, personal hygiene left a lot to be desired. A considerable part of the society of that time was plagued by numerous illnesses due to malnutrition and neglected hygiene, among them dental caries. The basic difficulty, the typical one for the whole period, was the possibility of access to the dental care. Consequently, some measures were introduced to find optimal solutions aimed at improvement of the level of hygiene in schools and organization of dental care. These efforts were mainly focused on the creation of the legal basis for the performance of dental practice and taking actions to implement the assumption that every school in a big city will have its own dental office.
However, the beginnings of the implementation of the concept of dental aid for children were actually difficult. For modest financial possibilities of the educational authorities and local governments, as well as the small number of dentists, only some schools met such a requirement.
On the other hand, there were such towns as Radom and Piotrków Trybunalski which succeeded in the introduction of the compulsory dental care in schools in the thirties through the establishment of number of outpatient dental clinics.
Eventually, in respect of the most of the cities, the instructions and guidelines for school dental care were only slightly managed to perform until the outbreak of World War II.

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