Hong Kong’s legislature has passed a bill that would allow for non-locally trained dentists to practice in the city in a bid to ease a labour shortage in the dental profession. Secretary for Health Lo Chung-mau on Wednesday called the changes introduced by the bill “historic,” saying the amendment was the “first large-scale and comprehensive” change made to the city’s Dentists Registration Ordinance in over 60 years. Lo said the city’s dental profession had been hit by a labour shortage, particularly in the public sector. As of July 1, there were 110 vacancies in the 370 positions for dentists…