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The Aranui Community Dental Clinic Open Day
The Aranui Community Dental Clinic Open
Day
The Canterbury Health System is helping children living in the eastern suburbs smile with improved access to better dental care.
The Aranui Community Dental Clinic
has opened its doors and begun service to children in the
eastern suburbs of Christchurch and is holding a community
open day tomorrow (Wednesday, August 31, 2011).
This
is a four-chair clinic providing assessment and treatment to
children and complements mobile dental clinics making
routine visits to schools in the area.
Dr Martin Lee,
Clinical Director of the Community Dental Service, says
five-year-olds living in the Aranui-area are 40 percent more
likely to have decay or fillings than children living in
other parts of Canterbury. They are also 50 percent more
likely to have had a tooth extracted.
“This is an
exciting opportunity to make a real difference to the oral
health of children in an area of Christchurch where dental
care is desperately needed,” Dr Lee says.
“We will
be able to achieve this through up-to-date dental equipment
and modern facilities making dental care a less daunting
experience than in the past.”
The clinic’s
community open day is from 9am to 3.30pm tomorrow. All are
welcome to visit the clinic, located at 240 Breezes Road,
Aranui, to see it in action.
This clinic is part of a
nationwide upgrade of oral health services for New Zealand
communities and part of a $13 million upgrade to the
Community Dental Service for school children within the
Canterbury region. The upgrade will all of the region’s
120 school dental clinics replaced by 12 community dental
clinics and 18 mobile dental units.
Canterbury’s
first community dental clinic was opened in May 2009 at
Ashburton Hospital. Since then, clinics have also opened at
Akaroa, Burnside, Kaiapoi, Hillmorton, Hornby, Northcote,
Rangiora, and Woolston. The clinic at Lincoln is nearly
complete, and the last clinic will be built as part of the
planned integrated family health centre at
Kaikoura.
ENDS
Canterbury DHB
CDHB
Canterbury District Health Board (CDHB) is a Christchurch, New Zealand based hospital and healthcare provider for the
Canterbury region of New Zealand. Our region extends from Kekerengu in the North, to Rangitata in the South and Arthurs Pass in the West and comprises the six Territorial Local Authorities of Kaikoura, Hurunui, Waimakariri, Christchurch City, Selwyn and Ashburton.
We collaborate with other health and disability organisations, stakeholders and our community to decide what health and disability services are needed and how to best use the funding we receive from Government to improve, promote and protect the health, wellbeing and independence of our population.
At the Canterbury DHB, our vision is to improve the health and wellbeing of people living in Canterbury.
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