Do you know TRICARE has a dental well being e-newsletter? it's referred to as the TRICARE Well being Issues Dental Publicationand is full of details about the TRICARE Dental Program (TDP) and oral well being. The most recent concern of the e-newsletter is now on-line. In case you are enrolled within the TDP, you possibly can obtain the e-newsletter by mail or e-mail.
The Protection Well being Company (DHA) and TDP contactor United Concordia publish this text 4 occasions a yr.
“The aim of the e-newsletter is to assist TDP members get essentially the most out of their dental advantages,” stated Robert Agnello, DHA Deputy Director of Digital Communications. “You too can study rather a lot about taking good care of your oral well being.”
Subjects within the newest e-newsletter embody:
- Understanding your TDP advantages
- Taking good care of your oral well being in maturity
- How sealants assist forestall cavities
- Connections between diabetes and oral well being
- Use different dental insurance coverage
Dental protection is separate out of your TRICARE well being plan protection. Your dental protection choices are based mostly on who you’re. The TDP is a voluntary dental plan for lively responsibility members of the family and members and households of the Nationwide Guard and Reserves. Your sponsor will need to have not less than 12 months of army service remaining so that you can enroll, as described within the TRICARE Dental Program Handbook. The TDP is accessible worldwide.
Retirees, their members of the family, and sure different people could also be eligible to buy dental protection by the Federal Staff Dental and Imaginative and prescient Insurance coverage Program. The U.S. Workplace of Personnel Administration administers this program.
For extra details about your dental protection choices, see the TRICARE Dental Choices Truth Sheet. And make sure you subscribe to TRICARE emails to obtain future newsletters on to your inbox.