IREC Rule No.608: Provision Of Dental Treatment

608.  Provision Of Dental Treatment:-

(1)  Free treatment be given to railway employees and beneficiaries incurred to following ailments in all railway dental clinics and at all places where railway dental attention facilities have been provided.

(i)       Extraction

(ii)      Scaling and gum treatment

(iii)     Root canal treatment

(iv)     Filling of teeth

(2)  In addition, free dental treatment of a major type is also admissible in cases where it is considered as a part of any general or consequential ailment and when the teeth are the source of disturbance. Treatment of such conditions may include treatment of any condition involving the operations on gums, for extraction of growths, surgical operations needed for the removal of Odon tomes and impacted wisdom teeth.

Note:

(1)   Arrangements may be made to hire the services of a local dentist to work part time in a railway hospital. In such cases no charges should be levied for normal cases like extraction, scaling etc. but for other items like filling of cavities etc, a schedule of charges may be prescribed and recoveries made from such staff.

(2)   The supply of artificial dentures is excluded from the scope of dental treatment.

[Authority: Para 1440 of the IREM, No. E57MES/85/Medical, 09/10.03.1961 & No.62/H/7/31, 30.04.1962]