ACC Treatment Injury and the role of the specialist advisor

NZDA Conference 2024 - Dentist Day 1 ACC Treatment Injury and the role of the specialist advisor 1. Introduction -ACC and founder 2. Definition of Treatment injury (slides supplied by ACC) 3. Basic slide on the law of Treatment injury (slides supplied by ACC) 4. Stats from ACC (slide supplied by ACC) 5. What is an ACC Treatment Injury (TI) Advisor and the vacancies? (slides supplied by ACC) 6. What is an ACC Report and what form do we receive it 7. How I go about reading and deciphering the ‘evidence’ and Dos and Don’ts 8. What types of TI do we report on 9. An ‘example’ or two ?? 10. Conclusion and helpful guides for dentists

Learning outcomes

1. Definition of Treatment Injury (as most dentists don’t understand it correctly ) ACC must have some good slides on this 2. Clearer understanding of an underlying condition and the fact that ACC is not a third party available just to restore someone’s dentition that has suffered from neglect 3. A quick summary of cases that come through and ACC can provide some data here 4. One or two interesting cases to clarify some points of treatment injury e.g. chemotherapy and dental decay 5. What dentists need to provide in these cases 6. A call out to senior/experienced dentists who may be interested in the role of an external ACC advisor and what to expect e.g. time involved

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