Maternity exemption card - dentist

[sthitch]

I have a 2 week old dd - not needed any dental treatment for years and annoyingly half of my tooth has cracked (pretty sure there was a filling there but the tooth has gone as well) I have a mat exemption card- what will this entitle me to at my NHS dentist? For example if a bridge was needed or something would this cover it?

I'm so hoping it's just a filling, I'm so gutted- just what you need 2 weeks after giving birth!

All I can confirm is that my check ups were definitely free. However, I've not needed any work so can't elaborate further. Apologies.

Yes, dental treatment is free. Look it up on NHS, you have to take in birth certificate for your baby

Yes, you don't need the card either usually. I've never been asked to show the card anywhere - at the dentist, GP surgery, pharmacy, etc. The NHS knows you are exempt (for one year after your due date) and you just have to tick that box (or they do it for you) on the form you sign at the end and it is covered.

You should just need your maternity exemption card, which will dated to approximately 1 year after your due date. They need it as it has a unique number on it, which is what they use to claim payment from the government. You often only need it the first time of using it, as they then have a record, but I'd take it along just to be safe. Of course you need to find a dentist accepting NHS patients, but that is a whole other debate!

Yes free, i had initial check up then told i needed a filling, all covered by my exemption. I just needed my card for them to check the date and my details

Yep, I have had a filling covered by maternity exemption.

I had root canal and a crown covered, but crown had to be metal on NHS as it was a back tooth - would have had to pay normal private rate for white.

I've had about 5 appointments, two lots of antibiotics, a mouth guard made (obviously cast taken for that), and a tooth pulled whilst pregnant. Some of those (surely the mouth guard) must have been in the higher bracket for NHS treatments so I think anything you can normally get on the NHS would be covered. I just had to show my card the first time.

Everything non cosmetic is covered.

Anything they'd class as cosmetic, like the poster above mentioned a metal crown rather than white, wouldn't be covered.