Compensation for Occupational Injuries and Diseases Act, 1993 (Act No. 130 of 1993)

Code

Procedure description

DM/+

MP

TC

General Dental Practice

Maxillo-facial and Oral Surgery

Prosthodontics

OTHER SURGICAL PROCEDURES

8909

Closure of oral -antral fistula - acute or chronic

S

2 170.77

3 255.99

-

8911

Caldwell -Luc procedure

S

851.66

1 277.42

-

8917

Biopsies -intra -oral

M

S

449.87

674.77

-

lncisional/excisional (e.g. epulis). This procedure does not include the cost of the essential pathological evaluations.

8919

Biopsy of bone - needle

M

S

827.23

1 240.78

-

8921

Biopsy - extra-oral bone/soft tissue

M

S

880.48

1 320.66

-

8965

Peripheral neurectomy

S

1 861.81

2 792.57

-

8966

Functional repair of oronasal fistula (local flaps)

S

2 636.29

3 954.23

-

8962

Harvest illiac crest graft

S

1 877 05

2 815.44

-

8963

Harvest rib graft

S

2 159.52

3 239.12

-

8964

Harvest cranium graft

S

1 688.19

2 532.16

-

8977

Surgical repair of maxilla or mandible - major

S

4 426.21

6 638.98

-

Major repairs of upper or lower jaw (i.e. by means of bone grafts or prosthesis, with jaw splintage) Modifiers 8005 and 8006 are not applicable in this instance. The full fee may be charged irrespective of whether this procedure is carried out concomitantly with procedure 8975 or as a separate procedure.

8979

Harvesting of autogenous grafts (intra -oral)

S

304.58

456.84

-

9048

Removal of internal fixation devices, er site

S

978.10

1 467.07

-