• TrippaSnippa@aussie.zone
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      9 hours ago

      It’s like this in Australia as well. Teeth are luxury bones and don’t deserve to be covered by Medicare it seems.

      • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
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        Dent-icaid is covered in some states(medi-caid,care), but it really depends how much they cover. they dont cover anything outside of cavity fillings, root canals, other luxury bone preserving procedure are all out of pocket. i dont think most states are that extensive as california.

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      19 hours ago

      It’s getting to be that way in the UK too.

      It used to be that everyone could get an NHS dentist and get a lot of work done for free but not anymore. I think that we’re still all entitled to an NHS dentist but there aren’t enough of them so only kids have easy access.