New South Wales Repealed Acts

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DENTISTS ACT 1989 - SECT 4

4 The practice of dentistry

For the purposes of this Act, "the practice of dentistry" includes:

(a) the performance of any operation and the treatment of any diseases, deficiencies, deformities or lesions on or of the human teeth or jaws or associated structures, and

(b) the correction of malpositions of the human teeth or jaws or associated structures, and

(c) the performance of radiographic work in connection with the human teeth or jaws or associated structures, and

(d) the administration of an anaesthetic agent in connection with any operation on the human teeth or jaws or associated structures, and

(e) the mechanical construction or the renewal or repair of artificial dentures or restorative dental appliances, and

(f) the performance of any operation on, or the giving of any treatment, advice or attendance to any person, as preparatory to, or for the purpose of or for or in connection with the fitting, insertion, fixing, constructing, repairing or renewing of artificial dentures or restorative dental appliances, and

(g) the performance of any such operation and the giving of any such treatment, advice, or attendance as is usually performed or given by dentists.