Child Dental Benefits Schedule Services – Which are Covered?

Child Dental Benefits Schedule Services

The Child Dental Benefits Schedule provides benefits for a range of basic dental services.

Clinically Relevant Services
The Dental Benefits Act 2008 requires that for a dental benefit to be payable a service must be ‘clinically relevant’. A ‘clinically relevant’ service means a service that is generally accepted in the dental profession as being necessary for the appropriate care or treatment of the patient to whom it is rendered.

Hospital Services
Benefits can only be claimed for dental services provided in out-of-hospital facilities. Dental benefits are not payable where the person requires dental services in a hospital.

Restorative Services / Fillings
Under the Child Dental Benefits Schedule, only one metallic or adhesive restoration can be claimed per tooth per day. Restorations can only be claimed using the relevant item that represents the number of restored surfaces that were placed on that day – this includes if separate restorations are placed on different surfaces of the tooth on that day.

If multiple restorations are placed on the same surface on the same day, that surface can only be counted once.

For example, if two separate two-surface fillings are placed on the same day, but one of the surfaces is common between them, only a three-surface filling can be claimed as three surfaces in total have been restored.

When two materials are used in the same restoration, the predominant material type should be used for claiming the restoration. For example, if:

• one metallic two-surface filling is provided; and
• one adhesive one-surface filling is done on a separate, third surface of the same tooth on the same day; then
• only a three-surface metallic filling can be claimed.

This is because three surfaces in total have been restored and the predominant material used is metallic.

Allsmiles services that come under the Child Dental Benefits Schedule?
Allsmiles Dental Centre can help you with the following services that come under the Child Dental Benefits Schedule:

• Examinations
• X-rays
• Cleaning
• Fissure sealing
• White fillings
• Root canals
• Extractions
• Partial dentures
• Other services may also be included, please check with reception when making a booking.

Contact us
Contact us online or phone today on 07 5572 8872 about our services and the Child Dental Benefits Schedule. We will return your enquiry as a priority and look forward to discussing in greater detail how Allsmiles Dental Centre can care for your children’s dental care needs. We have a practice in Mermaid Waters.

Allsmiles Dental Centre is a bulk billing dentist for services provided that come under the Child Dental Benefits Schedule. Allsmiles will let you know exactly what services and treatments can and cannot come under this new medicare scheme.

Allsmiles Dental Centre now has an app for mobile, which can keep you up to date with news like the Child Dental Benefits Schedule and also exclusive offers for holders of the allsmiles mobile app. Here are two download links where you can retrieve the app from:

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