As a result, the only achievement of the ' maximum programme ' of nineteenth-century hygienists was the weekly notification of reportable diseases.
All clinically active dental hygienists and all dental clinics received copies as did the dental and hygienist schools.
The information was used in clinical work by 34 percent of the dentists and 54 percent of the hygienists.
This sample comprised all dental hygienists and a random selection of one third of all dentists working in the county at the time.
A total of 7 and 10 percent of the dentists and hygienists, respectively, used that alternative.
Dentists and dental hygienists, however, were significantly more active in providing self-help material for smokers.
They included physicians, hygienists, educators, journalists, feminists, and policymakers.
The information from the reports was used in the clinical work by 34 percent of the dentists and 54 percent of the hygienists.
