Teen Dental Program
The Medicare Teen Dental Plan provides financial assistance to families to encourage teenagers to care for their teeth by having annual check-ups and to maintain good oral health habits once they leave home. The program will commence on 1 July 2008.
Medicare Australia will automatically send eligible families and teenagers a voucher for a preventative dental check each calendar year. Most people will receive their voucher in July or August this year.
Who is eligible for a preventative dental check?
To be eligible for a preventative dental check under the Medicare Teen Dental Plan, a teenager must have been issued with a voucher by Medicare Australia. To be issued with a voucher, a teenager must, for at least some part of the calendar year:
- be aged between 12 and 17 years; and
- satisfy the means test for the program (ie the teenager must be receiving Youth Allowance or Abstudy, or the teenager’s family/carer must be receiving Family Tax Benefit Part A (FTB(A)).
Eligible teenagers can receive their preventative check from a private dentist or a public dental clinic (including a school-based clinic).
For further information please follow the link provided:
http://www.health.gov.au/internet/main/publishing.nsf/Content/dental-teen