Canadian Dental Care Plan (CDCP)
The Canadian Dental Care Plan aims to help with the cost of dental treatment for Canadian residents who do not have dental benefits and have a household income less than 90,000 a year. This program helps lower financial barriers to oral health care and provides access to a wide range of dental services. CDCP Windsor Dental Centre accepts CDCP patients and are happy to assist in any questions you may have.
Where can I apply?
You can check your eligibility on Health Canada or contact their healthline at 1-833-537-4342 between 8:30am and 4:30pm local time, Monday to Friday. Within 3 months of your application submission, Sunlife will send you a welcome package with your coverage details, benefit effective date, and a membership card.
What does the CDCP cover?
The Canadian Dental Care plan (CDCP) will help pay a portion of the cost for a wide range of oral health care services, but you may be responsible to pay the remaining balance of costs that are not covered. Patients may be required to make a co-payment based on your adjusted family net income.
CDCP will cover the following treatments:
Diagnostic & Preventative Services:
These are services to check your oral health status, keep your teeth, gums and mouth healthy, and prevent cavities and gum disease and detect mouth conditions (like cancer) earlier. CDCP covers:
- Dental exams, including complete, routine, specific and emergency exams
- X-rays
- Cleaning (scaling)
- Fluoride applications
- Sealants
Basic Services:
Restorative services: These services treat cavities and broken teeth. CDCP covers permanent fillings, temporary fillings, pain control for diseased teeth and other treatments for cavities.
Endodontic services: These services treat teeth that are severely decayed, infected or broken. CDCP covers root canal treatments, pulpectomies (first step of a root canal treatment), procedures to reduce infection and relieve pain and re-treatment of previously completed root canal treatment (requires preauthorization).
Periodontal services: These services treat areas around the teeth, including gums and bone. CDCP covers cleaning under the gumline, treating abscesses, bonding for mobile teeth (requires preauthorization), post-surgical evaluations (requires preauthorization) and non-surgical gum disease management.
Major Services
Restorative services: These services restore teeth when they’re too damaged to be fixed with basic fillings. CDCP covers posts and post removal, repairs to crowns and re-bonding of crowns and posts, crowns (requires preauthorization), cores (to support crowns) (requires preauthorization) and posts for crown (requires preauthorization).
Removable prosthodontic services: These services replace missing teeth. CDCP covers complete dentures, including standard and temporary dentures, denture repairs, relines and rebases, placing lining in dentures to condition oral tissues (for comfort and healing), complete immediate and overdentures (requires preauthorization) and partial dentures (require preauthorization).
Oral surgery: These services remove teeth or tumours and fix other problems in the mouth and jaw that need surgery. CDCP covers removal of teeth and roots, surgical removal of tumours and cysts, surgical incisions, including draining, treatments for broken jaw bones.
Anesthesia or Sedation Services:
These are services to sedate you and control your pain while another service is being performed. CDCP covers minimal sedation (conscious), moderate sedation (requires preauthorization), deep sedation (requires preauthorization) and general anaesthesia (requires preauthorization).
Some oral health care services will require preauthorization. Preauthorization is a process where prior approval is required, based on the recommendation of the oral health provider, before the treatment is provided, to confirm it will be covered under the plan. These treatments and/or services take into consideration an individual’s oral health history and medical conditions.
If you are facing oral health concerns or have questions, reach out to our Windsor dentistry team today for compassionate, quality dental care.
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(226) 772-9242
7150 Hawthorne Drive,
Suite 101 Windsor,
ON N8T 3N3
Hours of Operation
Monday: 8-4
Tuesday: 8-4
Wednesday: 9-5
Thursday: 9-6
Friday: 9-2:30
Saturday: Upon Request
Sunday: Closed