11Major dental treatment

11 Major dental treatment

11 Major dental treatment

(1) For the Act, section 33(1), definition of major treatment, the following dental treatment is declared to be major treatment—

(a) treatment involving the administration of a general anaesthetic or simple sedation,

(b) treatment intended, or likely, to result in the removal of all teeth,

(c) treatment likely to result in the patient’s ability to chew food being significantly impaired for a prolonged or indefinite period.

(2) In this section—

simple sedation means a technique in which the use of a drug or drugs produces a state of depression of the central nervous system and in which—

(a) verbal contact with the patient is maintained throughout the period of sedation, and

(b) the technique used has a margin of safety wide enough to render unintended loss of consciousness unlikely.