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Medicare Chronic Disease Dental Scheme
Gives eligible patients access to Medicare benefits for most services provided by dentists, dental specialists or dental prosthetists in private dental surgeries.
The Medicare Chronic Disease Dental Scheme is now closed. No Medicare benefits are payable for any dental service provided from 1 December 2012 under Medicare dental items 85011-87777.
Further information relating to the closure of the Medicare Chronic Disease Dental Scheme and the dental reforms is available on the Department of Health and Ageing website