Don't over-regulate dental sedation - ADAVB

ADAVB has provided a further submission to the Victorian Department of Health on the development of new legislation to regulate private hospitals and day procedure centres.

The Branch argues that the inclusion of the requirement for practices utilising dental sedation to meet private hospital standards in the new legislation would place an unnecessary, onerous and unattainable standard on dental sedation practices.

ADAVB suggests that dental sedation be exempt from the new legislation because dental practices are already regulated and there has been no pattern of public risk.

The submission is supported by the Australian Society for Dental Anaesthesiology, the Australian and New Zealand Society of Paediatric Dentistry, the Australasian Academy of Paediatric Dentistry and the Australian and New Zealand Association for Oral Maxillofacial Surgeons.