{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-general-dental-services-contracts-regulations-2005/schedule-2/paragraph-2A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-general-dental-services-contracts-regulations-2005/schedule-2/paragraph-2A.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2005/3361",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service (General Dental Services Contracts) Regulations 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-general-dental-services-contracts-regulations-2005",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/2A",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "2A",
  "heading": "Sub-band 2a treatments",
  "text": "The following Band 2 courses of treatments are within sub-band 2a—\n(a) non-surgical periodontal treatment including root-planing, deep scaling, irrigation of periodontal pockets and subgingival curettage and all necessary scaling and polishing;\n(b) surgical periodontal treatment, including gingivectomy, gingivoplasty or removal of an operculum;\n(c) surgical periodontal treatment, including raising and replacement of a mucoperiostal flap, curettage, root planing and bone resection;\n(d) free gingival grafts;\n(e) sealant restorations;\n(f) pulpotomy;\n(g) apicectomy;\n(h) transplantation of teeth;\n(i) oral surgery including surgical removal of cyst, buried root, unerupted tooth, impacted tooth or exostosed tooth and alveolectomy;\n(j) soft tissue surgery in relation to the buccal cavity and lips;\n(k) frenectomy, frenoplasty and frenotomy;\n(l) relining and rebasing dentures including soft linings;\n(m) addition of tooth, clasp, labial or buccal flange to dentures;\n(n) splints (other than laboratory fabricated splints) in relation to periodontally compromised teeth and in connection with external trauma;\n(o) bite raising appliances (other than laboratory fabricated appliances);\n(p) permanent fillings in amalgam, composite resin, synthetic resin, glass ionomer, compomers, silicate or silico-phosphate, including acid etch retention, if delivered to less than 3 teeth in single course of treatment;\n(q) extraction of one or two teeth; ...\n(r) endodontic treatment of any retained deciduous teeth;\n(s) surface application of fissure sealants on up to two teeth in a single course of treatment; and\n(t) conservation treatment of up to two deciduous teeth in a patient.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 Pt. 1A inserted (25.11.2022) by The National Health Service (Primary Dental Services) (Amendment) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/1132), reg. 1(1), Sch. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in Sch. 2 para. 2A omitted (1.4.2026) by virtue of The National Health Service (Primary Dental Services and Dental Charges) (Amendment) Regulations 2026 (S.I. 2026/265), regs. 1(2), 6(4)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 2A(s)(t) inserted (1.4.2026) by The National Health Service (Primary Dental Services and Dental Charges) (Amendment) Regulations 2026 (S.I. 2026/265), regs. 1(2), 6(4)(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/3361/schedule/2/paragraph/2A",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:41:21.795162+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}