David CrumThe New Zealand Dental Association has rubbished an Otago academic's suggestion subsidies for dentistry would need to go hand-in-hand with limits on how much dentists can charge. Chief executive David Crum described Associate Prof Jonathan Broadbent's view that subsidies would need to be combined with regulations as ''anticompetitive nonsense''. ''I can't think of many New Zealanders who would agree to the Government setting the amount they could charge,'' he said. If there are to be subsidies for dental care, pricing regulations aren't nonsense, they are necessary.'' A former Dunedin dental nurse said in her time working at the University of Otago dental school she had seen people who did ''all sorts of things to their teeth''.

Source: Otago Daily Times March 19, 2019 15:22 UTC