Common use of EMERGENCY DENTAL TREATMENT Clause in Contracts

EMERGENCY DENTAL TREATMENT. Dental Treatment which an Insured Person needs urgently to alleviate pain, inability to eat or an acute dental condition which presents an immediate and serious threat to the Insured Person’s general health. Death of nerve of a tooth. A malignant tumour with its primary site being in the Oral Cavity. The hard and soft palette, accessory, salivary, lymph and other gland tissue in the mucosal lining of the oral cavity, but excluding the tonsils. Treatment for the correction or prevention of malocclusion or any other regular alignment or positioning of teeth. Fees not exceeding the published private fee rates normally charged by the treating Dentist for private and uninsured treatment in the location where treatment is given and which, in the opinion of Chubb, are reasonably in line with those charged by the private Dentist in that area for providing the treatment concerned on an uninsured basis.