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As a result of these demands, dental equipment needed to be portable and easily moved from one temporary location to another as demand required. The below pedal powered dental drill for example is designed to be taken apart and stored in a specially designed suitcase when not in use (see second picture). Likewise, dental chairs like the one pictured below, (which were also used in school dental clinics around the country for many years) became the standard due to the ease at which they can be folded up for transport and then quickly set up and adjusted to height when they got to their location.
The dedication and adaptability of the men and women who served in the New Zealand Dental Corps during the First World War created a tradition that continued to develop during their service in World War II and Vietnam and through into modern deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan.
From all of us here at the National Army Museum Te Mata Toa, happy Corps Day to the men and women (past and present) of the Royal New Zealand Dental Corps!
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