OUTPATIENT DENTAL CARE IS AVAILABLE INCLUDING DIAGNOSTIC CARE, PREVENTATIVE CARE, SURGICAL CARE AND RESTORATIVE CARE TO ELIGIBLE VETERANS. THOSE VETERANS ELIGIBLE TO RECEIVE CARE ARE AS FOLLOWS:
- Veterans who have service-connected compensable dental conditions
- Veterans who have service-connected, non-compensable dental conditions resulting from combat wounds or service injury
- Veterans who have non-service-connected dental conditions having been documented by VA to be aggravating a service-connected condition
- Veterans who have a 100% disability rating with service-connected conditions rating permanently and totally disabled by reason of being unemployable
- Veterans who are a part of a VA vocational rehabilitation program
- Veterans who were POWs
- Specified homeless veterans who are in a rehabilitation program sponsored by the VA
- Veterans who are in an inpatient VA facility requiring non-service-connected dental conditions
- Veterans who have a need for treatment of dental conditions that are determined by VA medical authorities to be complicating a medical condition for which they are currently under treatment