Title: The New Zealand Dental Services

Author: Anson, T. V.

Publication details: Historical Publications Branch, 1960, Wellington

Part of: The Official History of New Zealand in the Second World War 1939–1945

This text is the subject of: ‘Something of Them Is Here Recorded’: Official History in New Zealand

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Volume of Work carried out by the New Zealand Dental Corps

September 1939 to May 1945 for Navy, Army and Air Force

Fillings	1,340,117
Extractions	367,470
Prophylactic treatments	165,333
Full dentures	46,869
Partial dentures	19,849
Dentures remodelled	54,081
Dentures repaired	76,779

The total population of New Zealand at the end of the war was approximately 1,750,000. During the whole of the war 215 dentists were mobilised for service with the Armed Forces for varying periods, but at no time were all these serving together as executive officers. It took three years for the Corps to reach peak strength, after which there was a gradual retrenchment. Taking these facts into account, the volume of work is formidable.

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