Each Dental Therapy Centre is staffed by Dental Therapists and supervised by a Dentist with the School Dental Service. Children are recalled periodically for re-examination and any necessary treatment. However, parents can contact us for treatment or advice at any time. If your child is presently having dental treatment from a private dentist, please wait until the completion of the current course of treatment before enrolling at the Dental Therapy Centre. Specialist services are not available, but parents are informed if such treatment is considered advisable and an appropriate referral is made.
Parents are responsible for the costs of specialist services.
Communicable Diseases Immunisation provides children the best possible protection available against childhood diseases. On enrolment you will be asked to show your child s immunisation record. Booster immunisation for DTP and Measles can now be given at age 4 or 5. During a measles epidemic children who have not been immunised will be excluded from school for 2 weeks. They may be readmitted on a medical clearance Head lice can be a problem and parents are asked to regularly check their children's hair.