AMERICAN DENTAL PLAN

A dental blitz in the Northern Territory has halved the waiting time for public dental care.

In the past six months, more than 1200 people have had their teeth checked.

Another 1400 are awaiting treatment.

Health Minister Kon Vatskalis says the waiting time has been reduced from four years to two.

“For the urgent cases they’ll be treated immediately,” he said.

“Other people they have to wait for specialists to come and they’re put on the waiting list so they can be looked after by specialists and that is manageable.

“It would be ideal not to have any waiting list but the reality is that we can’t because people have to go on a waiting list to wait for special treatment for a specialist to arrive to be treated.”

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A new study from the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health has found that a large number of low-income children did not receive dental care treatments last year. In fact, only 42.8 percent of these patients regularly see a dentists.

Low-income families that are covered by Medical Assistance, Pennsylvania’s affiliate of Medicaid, have access to managed care programs that require the state to provide several dental providers. However, many dentists aren’t participating in the program because they won’t receive full reimbursement and children are still not receiving oral hygiene services. For example, from May 2009 to April 2010, only 26 percent of Pennsylvania dentists treated a patient who had Medicaid as their dental insurance provider. State representatives hope that future reimbursement plans will increase funding and the number of participating dentists. “We don’t have exact figures , but I can say the state is making great strides in improving the dental assistance portion of the Medicaid program,” said Monica R. Costlow, a senior policy analyst in Pennsylvania and co-author of the study.Ltd.
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