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7               Kind of injury, disease or death to which this Statement of Principles relates
(1)          This Statement of Principles is about loss of teeth and death from loss of teeth.
      Meaning of loss of teeth
(2)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, loss of teeth means:
(a)              the permanent loss of one or more teeth of the secondary dentition, with or without retained dental root; and
(b)              includes tooth loss due to surgical extraction.
(3)          While loss of teeth attracts ICD‑10‑AM code K08.1 or K08.3, in applying this Statement of Principles the meaning of loss of teeth is that given in subsection (2).
(4)          For subsection (3), a reference to an ICD‑10‑AM code is a reference to the code assigned to a particular kind of injury or disease in The International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, Tenth Revision, Australian Modification (ICD‑10‑AM), Ninth Edition, effective date of 1 July 2015, copyrighted by the Independent Hospital Pricing Authority, ISBN 978‑1‑76007‑020‑5.
Death from loss of teeth
(5)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, loss of teeth, in relation to a person, includes death from a terminal event or condition that was contributed to by the person's loss of teeth.
Note: terminal event is defined in the Schedule 1 – Dictionary.