Korea - The Forgotten War (1950-1953)

A summary of the British Army's contribution to dental provision for Commonwealth troops engaged in the Korean War including the personal recollections of James Donaldson, a Royal Army Dental Corps veteran. It outlines the planning and setting up of dental facilities in the theatre of war, some of the problems encountered and how these were overcome while operating under difficult and, at times, extreme weather conditions. Key points An outline of British Army dental units deployed to Korea. Mobile dental unit equipment and capabilities along with some problems encountered and their solutions. The formalisation of maxillofacial trauma helped to establish maxillofacial surgery as a speciality. Extreme winter temperatures provided dental ancillaries with some strange bedfellows in the form of local anaesthetic cartridges.