MORE than three million children will be eligible for taxpayer-subsidised dental care after the Senate passed a new government scheme.
The six-year package includes $2.7 billion for about 3.4 million children aged two to 17 years, $1.3 billion for adults on low incomes and $225 million to expand services in outer metropolitan, regional and remote areas.
Access to the scheme will start on January 1, 2014 and will cover children in families receiving Family Tax Benefit Part A or a range of other benefits.
It will provide a capped benefit of $1000 over two years for basic dental services.
One million low-income adults with concession cards, including pensioners, will also have improved access to public dental care.
Families will be able to continue using their private dentist, provided the dentist participates in the scheme.
Government frontbencher Jan McLucas said the investment would help reverse the decline in the dental health of the nation's children since the 1990s.
"Unless we reverse this trend, a generation of children with poor teeth will grow as a generation of adults with poor teeth," Senator McLucas told the chamber on Monday.
"Poor oral health will place even more pressure on the wider health system."
Senator McLucas said the bill would establish a framework to allow children in "poor and less well-off families" to access affordable preventative care and basic dental services.
The new scheme replaces the Howard government's Chronic Disease Dental Scheme (CDDS).
Queensland Liberal Senator Sue Boyce said the children and adults on the CDDS included diabetics and heart patients who would lose funding under that scheme on November 30.
"All this government is going to do is put them at the bottom of the public dental health scheme for at least 18 months," Senator Boyce said.
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