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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 periodontitis and death from periodontitis.
Meaning of periodontitis
(2)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, periodontitis:
(a)          means inflammation of the tissues that support the teeth, with periodontal pocketing and destruction of the periodontal ligament or alveolar bone, leading to progressive attachment loss and tooth loss at diseased sites; and
(b)          includes:
(i)            aggressive periodontitis;
(ii)         chronic periodontitis;
(iii)       necrotising ulcerative periodontitis;
(iv)        peri-implantitis; and
(v)          periodontitis as a manifestation of acquired systemic disease; and
(c)          excludes:
(i)            abscess of the periodontium;
(ii)         acute necrotising ulcerative gingivitis;
(iii)       chronic apical periodontitis;
(iv)        maxillary and mandibular osteonecrosis;
(v)          other combined periodontic-endodontic lesions; and
(vi)        pericoronitis.
(3)          While periodontitis attracts ICD‑10‑AM code K05.3, in applying this Statement of Principles the meaning of periodontitis 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), Tenth Edition, effective date of 1 July 2017, copyrighted by the Independent Hospital Pricing Authority, ISBN 978-1-76007-296-4.
Death from periodontitis
(5)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, periodontitis, in relation to a person, includes death from a terminal event or condition that was contributed to by the person's periodontitis.
Note: terminal event is defined in the Schedule 1 - Dictionary.