Dental Registration Act 1999 · 2022 Revised Edition · Part 6 · General
74. Exemption in respect of dental training
Feedback & supportNothing in this Act prevents the doing of any act within the practice of dentistry by any oral health therapist, dental student or medical student if the act is carried out —
practice of dentistry
“practice of dentistry” includes —(a)the performance of any procedure and the treatment of any disease, deficiency, deformity, malposition or lesion on or of the human teeth or jaws or associated structures, whether intraorally or extraorally;(b)the performance of radiographic work in connection with the human teeth or jaws or associated structures;(c)the administration of an anaesthetic agent in connection with any procedure on the human teeth or jaws or associated structures;(d)the performance of any procedure on, or the giving of any treatment, advice or attendance to, any person as preparatory to, or for the purpose of or for or in connection with, the fitting, inserting, fixing, constructing, repairing or renewing of dentures or dental appliances; and(e)the performance of any such procedure and the giving of any such treatment, advice or attendance as is usually performed or given by dentists;
in the course of his or her training;
under the supervision of a registered dentist whose name appears in the first division of the Register of Dentists; and
registered dentist
“registered dentist” means a person who is registered as a dentist under this Act and includes a person deemed to be a registered dentist under section 80(1), and “registered as a dentist” and “registration as a dentist” have corresponding meanings;
in a hospital or dental school approved for the purposes of this section by the Council.[61
Council
“Council” means the Singapore Dental Council established under section 3(1);