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What Is Covered

The plans pay for many of the preventive, basic and major services you and your family receive. The following services are covered under each plan:

Preventive Services

  • Routine oral exams every six months
  • Teeth cleaning every six months (including scaling and polishing for covered members age 14 and over)
  • Fluoride application for dependent children to age 18 once a year
  • Bitewing X-rays every six months
  • Full mouth series or panoramic X-rays once every three years

Basic Services

  • X-ray and pathology
  • Space maintainers
  • Non-surgical extractions
  • Oral surgery
  • General anesthetics in connection with covered dental services
  • Periodontics, endodontics, and root canals for impaired teeth only (excluding final restoration)
  • Restorative dentistry including fillings, pins, stainless steel crowns, denture repairs, adding teeth to partial dentures (that replace natural teeth), recementation, and repairs to bridges and crowns
  • Treatment of diseased periodontal structures
  • Endodontic treatment. This includes root canal therapy.
  • Injection of antibiotic drugs.
  • Repair or recementing of crowns, inlays, bridgework or dentures.
  • Relining of dentures

Major Services

  • Replacement of an existing removable denture or fixed bridgework by a new denture, or the adding of teeth to a partial removable denture*
  • Inlays, gold fillings or crowns. This includes precision attachments for dentures
  • First installation of fixed bridgework to replace one or more natural teeth extracted while the person is covered. This includes inlays and crowns as abutments
  • Replacement of an existing removable denture or fixed bridgework by new fixed bridgework, or the adding of teeth to existing bridgework*

* The following Prosthesis Replacement Rule must be met: (a) The replacement or addition of teeth is required to replace teeth extracted after denture or bridgework was installed (extraction must have been covered under Plan); (b) The denture or bridgework (must be 5 or more years old) cannot be made serviceable; (c) The denture must be an immediate temporary one to replace natural teeth extracted while you are covered and cannot be made permanent; and (d) Replacement by a permanent denture must be needed. Replacement must take place within 12 months from the date the immediate temporary one was first installed.

 

 
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