“We’re at that stage now where incentives need to happen.” While fewer dentists migrated to New Zealand in the past 18 months, there were an increasing number of dentistry graduates from the University of Otago [the only place they get qualified], Ayers said.
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New Zealand Dental Association president Katie Ayers. Reidy is concerned people would have to follow her path to some dental relief; seeing the emergency dentist because of a logjam in Southland. She had not been to her dentist in six years, and when the molar gave her issues she found out the dentist had retired, and she had not been transferred to the new practice.