It's hard to believe, but dental offices don't always require you to pay. Patients don’t take budget clinics into account in vain. Of course, the equipment there is not of the highest quality, but they employ professionals who provide high-quality treatment.
Unfortunately, most Russians believe that if you don’t pay, the service will be done poorly. According to statistics, only 40% of Russian residents visit state dental clinics. Others receive treatment either for a fee or not at all. But what is the situation really like in offices serving the population under compulsory medical insurance?
What services are provided to pensioners free of charge?
If a patient of retirement age has a health insurance policy, then he can visit a municipal dentistry or a clinic that has a dental office, where he will be treated for free.
However, not all types of treatment can be provided free of charge.
There is a certain list of types of treatment that pensioners are entitled to. This includes:
- Examination and consultation with a dentist
- Treatment of caries and other oral diseases (gingivitis, periodontitis, pulpitis, abscess)
- Installation of fillings, filling of root canals
- Sanitation of the oral cavity
- Tooth extraction
- Jaw reduction
- Remineralization procedure
- X-ray
- Treatment of oral inflammation
- Physiotherapy
- Removing foreign objects caught in the tooth or oral cavity
- Cleaning from plaque, removing tartar
- Certain types of prosthetics
Fresh questions about the dental prosthetics service for pensioners in Yekaterinburg
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Svetlana asks a question to the Classic-dent clinic for children, October 7, 2022, 11:42 Hello, can I ask if the child’s teeth are crumbling, are you treating them under anesthesia? - N
Natalia asks a question to the clinic Smile, May 29, 2022, 21:38 Hello! A child of 2.4 years old has upper caries - plus a chipped tooth. How much does it cost to cure caries and restore a tooth and do you use Sovran?
Smile, July 06, 2022, 09:26 Good afternoon, we do not treat children, we only do cleaning. I recommend Ivanzetti's sacco for the nursery. They treat me well there.
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A guest asks a question to the Megadent clinic clinic, March 13, 2022, 22:04 Hello. Do you treat children's teeth under anesthesia? How much?
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Zukhra asks a question to the Denta clinic os, July 20, 2022, 21:14 Hello! Do you provide a service such as dental prosthetics for children (7 years old)
What consumables can be obtained under the medical policy?
A number of medicines and medical materials are provided to pensioners free of charge
A pensioner can not only receive free treatment, but also receive some types of consumables that are needed for therapeutic procedures:
- Cleaning brushes;
- Cotton wool, bandage;
- Dental burs;
- Surgical threads, dressing materials;
- X-ray film;
- Silicate, glass ionomer filling compounds;
- Phosphate cements;
- Arsenic;
- Russian-made disinfectants and painkillers (Lidocaine, Novocaine, Trimecaine).
If the patient suffers from individual intolerance to the proposed painkiller injection or simply wants to receive better anesthesia, he can ask the doctor for another drug, for which he will have to pay separately.
A doctor can use a medicine for a fee only with the consent of the patient.
Dental prosthetics at a discount
Some categories of pensioners can use the dental prosthetics service free of charge. Beneficiaries include:
- Participants, veterans, disabled people of the Second World War
- Persons who took part in hostilities
- Disabled pensioners
- Persons who participated in the liquidation of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant
- Heroes of the Soviet Union and Russia
- Veterans of Labor
- Persons who came under repression with subsequent rehabilitation
- Persons who received the award “Resident of besieged Leningrad”
- Home front workers
- Persons of retirement age who do not work
Some elderly citizens can use the service of dental prosthetics for free.
In addition, there is an additional dental prosthetics program in which the following categories of pensioners can take part:
- Persons who joined the queue before 01/01/2005 (it does not matter whether the pensioner belongs to one of the preferential categories or not)
- Citizens whose average income per family member is two times lower than the regional subsistence level
Local authorities can independently appoint other preferential categories who have the right to receive free dental treatment. You can find out more information on this issue from your local social security office.
Beneficiaries can exercise the right to free prosthetics once every five years.
Pensioners can receive domestically produced prostheses (removable dentures made of acrylic, stamped metal crowns) free of charge. Products have a maximum of one year warranty. Warranty service and repairs are provided in cases where the breakdown of a dental structure occurs due to the fault of the doctor or employee who manufactured it.
New reviews about the service dental prosthetics for pensioners in Yekaterinburg
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Nikolay about the clinic European Dental Center, January 12, 2020, 13:13 The clinic is disgusting. I tried to treat three teeth in this “office”, but none were cured. One tooth was completely destroyed, the other two are next. Doctors don’t want to hear from anyone but themselves and their loved ones. The contract is not concluded, they are cheated...
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Installation of photopolymer fillings for pensioners
A pensioner can be given a free photopolymer filling at a municipal dentistry only if it is indicated by a doctor.
If prescribed by a doctor, a pensioner can have a photopolymer filling placed on his front teeth free of charge.
The fact is that modern filling materials are expensive, so not all insurance companies want to cover the costs of them. Typically, doctors use such fillings only when treating anterior units or cervical caries.
If a patient wants to have a high-quality filling made from modern material, he can pay its cost separately. The doctor's work will continue to be free.
Elderly people with taxable income can receive a tax deduction for installing a paid seal. To do this, you must have a receipt for payment for the used filling material.
Free dental treatment
The patients’ logic is clear: private clinics have expensive medical equipment and modern filling materials. But public dentistry in large cities is also not poorly equipped.
People can take advantage of high-quality diagnostic and surgical services. The big advantage of treatment under compulsory medical insurance is that pensioners receive prosthetics, which cost a pretty penny to clients of commercial clinics.
Often ordinary people are not even aware of what they can be offered for free. As a rule, they believe that everything is limited to tooth extraction, and then without anesthesia. This is a very deep-rooted folk stereotype. In fact, dentistry under the compulsory medical insurance program is more attractive.
Here is a list of free services:
- Filling with anesthesia, usually lidocaine or novocaine, sometimes with foreign drugs.
- Elimination of caries and its consequences. Domestic equipment and raw materials are used in treatment.
- Targeted X-ray.
- Opening a periodontal abscess with special instruments.
- Extraction of a permanent tooth in simple and complex cases.
- Providing emergency dental care.
If a person comes to the office with a policy, his place of registration does not matter. The following is a list of dental clinics in Yekaterinburg that accept patients under the compulsory medical insurance policy.
What is not included in the benefit program?
The list of dental services for pensioners provided free of charge does not include:
- Installation of metal-ceramic and ceramic dentures
- Installation of braces and other structures for straightening teeth
- Dental implantation
- Teeth whitening
- Installation of clasp, nylon and other expensive prostheses
- Installation of dentures made of precious metals
- Installation of devices used for periodontitis and severe abrasion of enamel
- Use of foreign-made painkillers
Dental prosthetics for pensioners in dental clinics in Yekaterinburg
- Hummingbird Dental Clinic
- Radishcheva street, house 10
- +7 (343) 300-… show all
- Mon-Fri 9:00–21:00; Sat 9:00–18:00; Sun
3.4 ratings: 10
- Denta os
4.4 ratings: 8
- European Dental Center
4.0 ratings: 8
- Vital evv
3.3 ratings: 8
- Reference
4.6 ratings: 8
- White pearls
3.5 ratings: 9
- Madar
3.3 ratings: 6
How to get free prosthetics?
If a pensioner wants to get on the waiting list for dental prosthetics or receive dental treatment, he must do the following:
- Go to the clinic in your area and get the appropriate certificate
- Get examined by a dentist and, if necessary, wait for the decision of the medical board
- Obtain a document confirming the need for dental prosthetics
- Collect all the necessary papers and take them to the social security service
- Write an application to be placed on the waiting list. The collected documents must be attached to the application. If the pensioner is unable to do this himself, he can entrust the procedure for collecting documents to another person, for example, a relative. In this case, the relative must provide a power of attorney certified by a notary and his passport
- After permission for free prosthetics is received, the patient can receive a treatment voucher and go to the dentist. It is important to note that the coupon is given for a specific time. If you miss it, the ticket will become invalid
Dental prosthetics for disabled people
People with disabilities are the most in need of support from all members of society. No one is immune from severe injuries, detection of complex systemic diseases, etc.; We are happy to help you within the capabilities of our blade.
Benefits for dental prosthetics are valid upon presentation of a certificate of a disabled person of groups I-III. The discount depends on the type of service and is 5-15%; the final price of dental prosthetics for disabled people in Yekaterinburg can be named by a doctor after examination and selection of a design option.
What documents need to be prepared?
The list of documents for receiving benefits includes: passport, pension certificate, medical policy and others
To get on the waiting list for prosthetics, the patient must provide the following documents to the social security service:
- Passport
- Pensioner ID
- Document confirming membership in a preferential category
- Medical insurance policy
- Certificate of income (for persons who live alone)
- Certificate of income for each family member (for persons who do not live alone)
- If the patient is a cancer patient, he must also provide the appropriate certificate, which will give him the right to receive dental treatment without waiting in line
Dental prosthetics for labor veterans
People who have devoted most of their lives to working for the benefit of their native country formally have significant benefits, including dental prosthetics. Thus, the state provides the right to free prosthetics, but not every labor veteran can take advantage of it in practice. Please note that the prostheses that are offered to be manufactured and installed free of charge are often uncomfortable, often break, and require a long period of getting used to.
In our clinic, dental prosthetics are performed for labor veterans at a discount of up to 15%. In Yekaterinburg, you can order light and reliable clasp structures, affordable soft nylon dentures and acry-free dentures, as well as other types of structures tomorrow, if you sign up for a free dental consultation at the Calypso clinic today.
