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Statement of Principles
concerning
TOOTH LOSS
(Reasonable Hypothesis)
(No. 29 of 2025)
The Repatriation Medical Authority determines the following Statement of Principles under subsection 196B(2) of the Veterans' Entitlements Act 1986.

Dated    18 February 2025.

Professor Terence Campbell AM
Chairperson
by and on behalf of
The Repatriation Medical Authority

Contents
1 Name
2 Commencement
3 Authority
4 Repeal
5 Application
6 Definitions
7 Kind of injury, disease or death to which this Statement of Principles relates
8 Basis for determining the factors
9 Factors that must exist
10 Relationship to service
11 Factors referring to an injury or disease covered by another Statement of Principles
Schedule 1 - Dictionary
1 Definitions

 1.                Name
This is the Statement of Principles concerning tooth loss (Reasonable Hypothesis) (No. 29 of 2025).
 1.                Commencement
              This instrument commences on 25 March 2025.
 1.                Authority
This instrument is made under subsection 196B(2) of the Veterans' Entitlements Act 1986.
 1.                Repeal
The Statement of Principles concerning loss of teeth No. 124 of 2015 (Federal Register of Legislation No. F2015L01678) made under subsection 196B(2) of the VEA is repealed.
 1.                Application
This instrument applies to a claim to which section 120A of the VEA or section 338 of the Military Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 2004 applies.
 1.                Definitions
The terms defined in the Schedule 1 - Dictionary have the meaning given when used in this instrument.
 1.                Kind of injury, disease or death to which this Statement of Principles relates
         1.           This Statement of Principles is about tooth loss and death from tooth loss.
Meaning of tooth loss
 1.           For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, tooth loss:
         1.           means partial or complete permanent loss of a tooth (consisting of the enamel and dentine) of the natural secondary dentition, with or without retained dental root; and
         2.           includes tooth loss due to surgical extraction; and
         3.           excludes superficial tooth wear confined to the enamel.
Note 1: Secondary dentition refers to the 32 permanent teeth and not the primary dentition.
Note 2: Tooth loss may involve the tooth substance, the gomphosis or the alveolar bone.
 1.           While tooth loss attracts ICD‑10‑AM code K08.1 or K08.3,  in applying this Statement of Principles the meaning of tooth loss is that given in subsection (2).
 2.           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 tooth loss
 1.           For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, tooth loss, in relation to