Caring Dentistry
Caring Dentistry is a municipal organization, where the municipalities are obliged by law to offer preventive and curative dental care for adults who because of their health are difficult to make use of the general established dentistry offers. Municipalities may charge a fee for the scheme, and in 2009 this charge about 400 dollars annually, depending on what rate each municipality has chosen to use.
Eligibility for dental care
Caring Dentistry are for people over 18 years, because of chronically impaired mobility or excessive physical or mental disabilities will have difficulty using the established dental care system.
The primary audience for caring dentistry is originally defined as persons who either live in nursing homes or assisted living / senior housing or the like with a lot of remedial measures, if self-reliant capacity and self-care is so limited that they need assistance in basic daily functions or any care, and can actually be equated with nursing home residents.
Today, the audience also of the mentally retarded and mentally ill patients in whom there is no specific dental problems that require dental professional specialized in special dental care, but the person is not sufficiently on its own is able to use existing dentistry offers from practicing dentistry .
It is not envisaged that a broader group of frail elderly or disabled people who would otherwise be admissible at common disability friendly dental clinics to be covered by dental care offer. Caring Dentistry is not directed against individuals, which in principle can use existing dentistry offers, but who for social or other reasons, have opted out of this. Most of omsorgstandplejens persons already living in senior housing / nursing home and receives a retirement pension.
The level of dental care offer
Caring Dentistry addressing prevention, investigation, planning and treatment.
The prevention includes all activities aimed at preventing the disease symptoms and conditions of the teeth, mouth and jaws from occurring, including information for both the patient as care staff about the importance of a healthy, functional teeth, mouth and jaw region.
Studies of dental, oral and maxillofacial region occur at intervals guided by academic reasons.
Necessary treatments include treating symptoms, diseases and dysfunctions of the teeth, mouth and jaws, including the necessary tandprotetiske treatments.
How to get dental care
You have searched for dental care. If you live in nursing homes, it works through the staff. If you live in your own home, you contact the home or your community center.
Options within care dentistry
Municipalities can offer dental care both at public clinics and private dental practice / clinical dental technician practice. And the user can choose between dental care offer by a local clinic or whether it should be in private, regardless of whether the municipality basically offer care at a public clinic. If you wish to qualify for the scheme not to receive this offer, you remain in the right grants for dental care under the current rules.
Users of the dental care system has three options: to receive dental care by a) public clinic, b) in private practice or c) to deselect an offer dental care, whereby the right of the general dentistry offers from practicing dentistry preserved.
It is noted however that one can not use dental care in other municipalities than the municipality.
Economy
The local council of each municipality decides on dental care should be free of charge to recipients, or whether there should be liable to pay for the scheme. User charge for dental care is regulated by law, and in 2006 was a maximum of 400 per annum.
Commencement of particularly expensive treatments can only happen when the municipality has approved the launch of the dentist or clinical dental technician tenders submitted. The local council may provide the services to be covered by the municipality's prior approval.
Caring Dentistry in your community
Information on how the offer of dental care is in your municipality can always be found at local hjemmmeside. The easiest way to your local authority website is through regional websites, which contained an overview of the www.regioner.dk
