can you get all dental care free with a maternity exemption card?

[mum2samandalex]

or is it just check ups. Ive decided i want to correct my teeth and have a brace fitted just wondering how much it costa or whther im eligible for free dental treatment.

[thisisyesterday]

no you;ll only get stuff that needs doing,.
ie, if you needed a filling or something that would be covered.
but they won't do aesthetic work

[harpomarx]

I don't know about teeth correction but I had extensive root canal treatment, plus crowns and replacement gold and white fillings.

[GrinningGorilla]

You cant get things like caps, crowns or braces on your exemption card. You can only get urgent treatment , extractions, treatment for abcesses or fillings. If you want anything else you will have to pay.

[thisisyesterday]

harpomarx, you obviously have a very nice dentist lol

[GrinningGorilla]

Harpo, I think my dentist must have been a tight git when I was pregnant. I needed a cap done and he said my card wouldn't cover it!

[AvenaLife]

You only qualify for free NHS dental treatment, a check up, scale and polish, fillings, root canal and a crown. Even children don't get braces because they are cosmetic and this is not paid for by the NHS. Sorry.

[thisisyesterday]

mine would have done a crown for me. but I needed it. she wouldn't have done it just because I fancied it iyswim? I'd had a lot of root canal treatment done and the tooth didn't look like it was going to make it, so she offered the crown.

but as a rule they do not do stuff that is unnecessary

[Scotia]

I had braces on my maternity exemption card - started treatment just before my daughter's 1st birthday, but had been discussing it with my dentist for a while previously. It was his idea for me to wait, and I got the whole course of treatment (almost 2 years) free because it started before my exemption ran out.

DD also had braces on the NHS.

We are in Scotland if that makes a difference.

[harpomarx]

lol thisisyesterday - yeah, I needed the crown too. And he was a really nice dentist. He was a South African and seemed to have the attitude that it wasn't unreasonable to make your mouth look halfway decent...