Mr. Daviesasked the Minister of Health if he will define the expression dentally fit; and to what extent he is prepared to adopt modern dental techniques within the health service in order to fulfil the responsibility of making the patient dentally fit.
§ Mr. BarberDental fitness is defined in the National Health Service (General Dental Services) Regulations, which I laid before Parliament last month, as
such a reasonable standard of dental efficiency and oral health as is necessary to safeguard general health.Dentists are free to treat their patients by whatever techniques seem to them to be required, subject to the agreement in certain cases of the Dental Estimates Board.