Prosthetic dentistry for retired people: how to insert teeth for free

A healthy and snow-white smile is the key not only to beauty, but also to the health of all internal organs, the gastrointestinal tract in particular, as well as an indicator of a full life.Almost every person sooner or later faces the problem of loss of teeth.For the most part, these are elderly people - pensioners.Although in our time even young people have defects in the jaw line.And this is due to the influence of external factors, food, ecology, as well as genetic predisposition.

The program of prosthetics for pensioners

Everyone can lose a tooth, but you can not insert it!And all because the prices for prosthetics, to put it mildly, bite.Especially if a person is already in old age and lives on one pension.Therefore, many of them are wondering how to insert free teeth for pensioners?

After losing one element of the chewing system, the load on others increases, which can cause their premature fallout, the development of concomitant diseases, such as periodontal disease.Therefore, do not ignore the absence of the tooth, but it is necessary to eliminate the defect and perform the installation of the denture.

Retired people have the right to use the all-Russian free dental prosthetics program for pensioners

People who are retired and who have Russian citizenship, in some cases, get a chance to try the all-Russian free dental prosthetics program for themselves.

If in the locality where the citizen is permanently registered there is no program of preferential dental treatment for pensioners, local authorities must take all the expenses for themselves in accordance with the legislation.

Free prosthetics is developed and operates only in dentistry of municipal subordination.The indicated clinics, when appealing to them of a privileged patient, undertake to sign an agreement on dental care with him in accordance with the established procedure and be sure to fix all prices and prices.

Who can take advantage of preferential prosthetics

The state granted the right to free dental prosthetics to the following population groups:

1. veterans, including labor;
2. to persons receiving an old-age pension and do not have other sources of income;
3. for disabled children who have not reached adulthood;
4. to the participants of the Second World War;
5. to citizens who are on a disability according to their state of health.

There are also other categories of the population who also have a chance to get a free denture free of charge. The category of people is entitled to free prosthetics

• for people who do not reach the retirement age but who have a monthly income, are less( participants of the Second World War, liquidation of the consequences of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant accident, etc.).
  

  Rather than the approved minimum subsistence level, approved by the state, at least twice;

• citizens, recorded on the queue for the installation of dentures at the expense of the state until 01.01.2005;
• participants in the liquidation of the consequences of the Chernobyl accident.
In addition, local authorities are entitled to additionally determine the categories of population that can benefit from this program in the region.

Service delivery order

In all regions of the country there is a network of municipal institutions that are approved and operate under the dental prosthetics program for pensioners free of charge.Of course, there are many people who want and those who really fall under the action of a kind of action from the state, practically in every region, and it is impossible to help all at once.

Therefore, a specific regional center has its own turn for dentures for the privileged strata of the population.The municipal authorities independently establish the categories of beneficiaries that are provided with this service without a decision on the queue.The remaining wishing to write down the list and have the opportunity to correct the defects of their dentition in due course completely for free.

An important condition for participating in the free dental prosthetics program for pensioners is their lack of other income channels, other than a pension.

How to use the program

To begin with, a person who is covered by this program and has problem teeth should seek help from the social protection authorities in his area.

Already there, there will be a record in the list and the person applying can be guided by an approximate date, when a visit to a prosthetic specialist can be assigned.In social institutions, the pensioner will be informed of a list of clinics where it is possible to insert teeth for free in his area.

Each district has its own list of dental clinics that cooperate with the state program.



To queue up and find out which clinic you can insert a tooth for free, you should contact the social security authorities

To date, many commercial dental institutions are in the position of pensioners and low-income groups and also make big discounts on prosthetics and othersServices, but for this you need to have a certificate of their social protection agencies that a person really belongs to the beneficiaries.Moreover, the presence or absence of such discounts should be learned independently by contacting the clinic directly.

In Russia, each regional center must have a municipal dentistry that services and provides medical assistance free of charge to all citizens who have a health insurance policy.

The list of free services includes:

1. Obtaining a primary consultation of a dentist;
2. Conducting a sanation of the oral cavity;
3. Dental treatment in the presence of caries, as well as sealing and repairing defects in damaged teeth;
4. Removal of calculus;
5. Installation of dentures for privileged categories of citizens.

There are services not related to free of charge and will require additional payment, for example:

1. Implantation of teeth;
2. Manufacture and installation of metal-ceramic dentures;
3. Manufacture, installation and repair of apparatuses that are designed to eliminate defects in the dentition, for example, braces;
4. Installation and, accordingly, the manufacture of implants or prostheses from expensive metals.

In order to be able to use the services of free dental prosthetics for pensioners, you need to have an identification document( passport), a document that confirms the place of residence of a person in a particular region and village, a pension certificate and a certificate from the social security authorityThat the pensioner is a benefit recipient.



The only disadvantage of free dental prosthetics for pensioners can be a large queue

No additional documents will be needed.

Sometimes the record for free dental care is quite large.Out-of-turn services are also usually provided to people with oncology of the facial or jaw cavity, areas of the digestive system, patients with severe gastrointestinal diseases associated with the lack of chewing elements, loss of the entire dentition during severe trauma, and others.

In each specific case, the authorized body makes an individual decision.

Thus, people with small incomes and privileged categories of citizens have the opportunity to correct defects of the dentition in Russia.Such a service is provided free of charge.The only drawback may be the turn that exists in this or that region.