Mt A Dental Centre

01/10/2024

Faith can move mountains, and often God hands you a shovel.

~ overheard ~

18/07/2023

With the opening of the St Anne Mother and Child Centre in Mt Alvernia Hospital, we have increased car park capacity! After years and years and years of construction, we are finally done!

Watch this space as the hospital reconfigures the older wards to meet the healthcare needs of the future.

31/05/2022

We've a new Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon onboard! Dr Lai Juen Bin was a Senior Consultant in the National Dental Centre Singapore and brings with him a wealth of experience in maxillofacial trauma and correction of jaw deformities.

Welcome, Dr Lai!🥳

24/09/2021

What if I have a health issue?

Mt Alvernia Dental Clinic

24/09/2021

Slips and trips!

22/09/2021

What’s a Dentist doing in a Hospital?

Learn more about the responsibilities of a Hospital Dentist as well as discover what house and night calls are all about.

26/08/2021

We're connecting our FaceBook page to WhatsApp, so you can contact us more easily - we're not on-line 24 hours a day (we're human, not a corporation) so please be patient with us!

06/10/2020

Regular checkups are important to maintain good oral health

09/08/2020

How far we've come! (Dr Goh remembers these things!)

Happy 55th National Day and Majulah Singapura!

The photo – from the late 60s - children squatting over the school drain for compulsory daily teeth-brushing. Growing up was so different then - but also fun for the kids.

Every time 9th August comes around, I think of how it was in the early years.

Remember the campaigns? They were serious business.

Many had to do with public health and nutrition.

No spitting.

‘Wash your hands’ - a campaign five decades ago, not just now with Covid. Everyone was told to do so, especially after going to the toilet.

These were big issues then, as standards of hygiene were low and diseases widespread.

Every primary school child had to drink milk in school, after the government found that most were short of essential vitamins and minerals. Many kids had never had milk. So we gathered each day by the school drains, and had milk poured into our cups.

Kids who were malnourished were sometimes given the pyramid-shaped Magnolia milk packs to take home. By the way, Magnolia milk was a treat in those days. It came from the cows in Dairy Farm in Upper Bukit Timah - the only farm that successfully reared cows from a temperate climate in the equatorial region.

The story of why we had a teeth brushing campaign is interesting. The government found that many in the first batch of National Servicemen had bad teeth. Surveys then showed that one out of two Singaporeans did not brush their teeth. Many of us might recall too that it was common in those days for people, even in their 40s, to have a few missing teeth. (Some people used gold caps, and would flash a smile to show that they were doing well in life.)

Primary school children were given a 10-cent toothbrush (which would have been quite good in those days) and a 15-cent big plastic mug, and had to line up side-by-side by the shallow longkang outside their classroom blocks. Usually before classes started in the morning or after recess. Teachers would demonstrate how to brush your teeth properly.

It was a different time.

(Photo: MCI/National Archives of Singapore collection)

13/07/2020

Our patients know we've been practising safe procedures for years!

http://www.sda.org.sg/sda_content/COVID-19/Welcome_Back_To_Clinics.mp4