In light of the recent scandals concerning the VA’s mishandling of our veterans, another unfortunate secret emerged: most of America’s veterans receive zero dental benefits or oral care from the VA.
Dr. Charles Zahedi, the founder and Clinical Director of the not-for-profit organization, Dentists for Veterans, is the very first dentist in United States to have started a pilot program to conduct a nationwide study and initiative to precisely assess the feasibility and advisability of furnishing dental care to veterans under section 1705 of title 38, United States Code, who are not eligible for dental services and treatment.
By carrying out this pilot program, Dentists for Veterans will enable the Veterans Administration to better specify performance standards and metrics and processes for ensuring compliance with the hopes that these will one day be funded by federally-directed dental treatment programs. In addition, by executing this program, Dentists for Veterans will be able to rapidly identify those veterans who are completely orally disabled.
Until that funding is secured, Dentists for Veterans is rallying patriotic Americans to donate a minimum of $25 to build and furnish mobile dental facilities that will drive around America and treat veterans who lack the funds and means to get proper dental care.
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Smith, I’m 100% and can’t get dental, bought my own dentures. Maybe if reid and company would stop trying to add bull$#%&!@* riders to every good bill that the house offers, some of them would pass. Leave your left-handed rhetoric at the door.
It was promised for us then withheld.
Yep, mine changed under Clinton. Every vet gets less as each year goes by. I got my teeth knocked out by another soldier, and still do not get covered.
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Tell me more , I need lotsa dental work & cannot afford it …
Don Maxwell, that’s BS about the pain meds. I take (don’t want to but have to) 2 different types and take more than 1 pill of each and I get my meds every 28 days, not monthly. They are dropping the limit to less than 120 mgs of total pain meds a day, to include any anxiety and depression meds into the count as well. You gonna talk, get it right. I’m living the nightmare of needing several back surgeries and living hours away from any VA facility.
That’s a fact. The only time they will check them is if you are admitted and spend sometime at the hospital, which is even more dangerous!
They treat vets (and this includes the doctors in private practice) like dirt. Chronic pain sufferers, terminal patients and those with PTSD, etc. have been limited or cut off from pain meds and other meds like we are junkies while illegals bring drugs over the border without stop. I know, as a vet, and I think its POTUS’s way of trying to make us helpless. Yeah…right!
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Yes they do. They put Floride in our drinking water to protect out teeth