asked the Minister for Social Welfare, in relation to the dental benefit and treatment scheme for 1988, if he will give (1) the number of acid-etch composite fillings involving two or more surfaces carried out (2) the number of pin retained amalgam fillings involving two or more surfaces carried out and (3) the number of endodontic treatments on the six anterior teeth; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
Written Answers. - Dental Treatment
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Up to recently statistics on the incidence of dental treatment items carried out under the social insurance dental benefit scheme were kept on a sample basis only. Therefore precise details of the incidence of the treatment items referred to in the question are not available for the year 1988. However, statistics on this basis are now being kept and will be available for the current year at the end of 1989.