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✨ Dental Services Specification

4272 NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE No. 151

SCHEDULE F: SERVICE SPECIFICATION:

SERVICE SPECIFICATION

SPECIAL DENTAL BENEFITS

F1. DESCRIPTION OF THE SERVICE

Special Dental Benefits are detailed in clause F2 below and encompass a range of dental services to assist the maintenance of a functional natural dentition. They include some treatments for oral disease and the restoration of tooth tissue that are beyond the scope of a dental therapist and some treatment for children and adolescents who cannot access their regular oral health provider.

Special Dental Benefits are closely related to but distinct from:

a. child dental services (school dental services);

b. adolescent dental services (e.g. General Dental Benefits);

c. hospital dental services; and

d. emergency dental services for low income adults.

F2. SERVICE COMPONENTS

F2.1 Special Dental Benefits Not Requiring Prior Approval

Special Dental Benefits Not Requiring Prior Approval consist of a range of dental services that will be provided where required. These services may be provided by you without prior approval from a Dental Officer of the District Health Board.

The following Services will be purchased on a fee-for-service basis.

a. Initial oral consultation for school dental clinic patients referred for special dental benefits or for school dental clinic patients or adolescents who are not able to access their regular oral health provider in an emergency during normal practice hours;

b. Emergency consultations outside normal practice hours;

c. Periapical or bitewing radiographs where required (each film);

d. One surface restorations in posterior teeth (including the anterior and posterior pit and all buccal, palatal and lingual fissure extensions of molars);

e. Two surface (mesio-occlusal or distal-occlusal) restorations in posterior teeth;

f. Three surface (mesio-occlusal-distal) restorations in posterior teeth;

g. Complex coronal reconstructions in amalgam (including restoration of one or more cusps);

h. Simple non-metallic restorations in anterior teeth and buccal surfaces of premolars;

i. More than one surface non-metallic restorations in anterior teeth;

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