HC Deb 18 November 1974 vol 881 c338W
Mr. Gould

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services whether she will add to the list of approved treatments which may be carried out by dentists under the National Health Service the various preventive techniques which have recently been developed and which currently are available only to paying customers.

Dr. Owen

Reports of benefits from some of these techniques vary considerably and do not on present evidence warrant the diversion from other forms of treatment of the resources that would be needed to make them freely available in the gneeral dental services of the National Health Service.

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