"She took me through a set of questions, and basically, the [upshot] of that was that because he wasn't in any dental pain, they weren't booking people in for routine check-ups for the foreseeable future."
"Partly because we don't have a dental school in Tasmania. So every dentist that is working here studied interstate or overseas,"Dr Quek said.
"About 70 per cent of parents who contact OHST to seek an appointment for their children are being provided with one, with the remainder being contacted at a later date through the service's recall process."