The government reinforces the Community Dental Support Program to replace the Community Elderly Dental Care Fund next year (with photo)
The government reinforces the Community Dental Support Program to replace the Community Elderly Dental Care Fund next year (with photo)
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The government announced today (August 15) that the scope of services for the CDSP Community Program (CDSP) will be expanded next year to further enhance the subsidized preventive and therapeutic dental services for reduced financial difficulties. The CDSP will also replace the EDAP dental aid program (EDAP), which will cease to accept applications from January 1 next year.
The field of CDSP services will be expanded from January 1 of the following year. In addition to providing existing services of oral health assessments, medication to relieve dental pain, X -ray examinations and dental fillings or extracts, new services, dental scales, remedies of radical canals, dentures.
The Ministry of Health (DH) launched the CDSP on May 26 of this year with 32 NGOs (NGOs) providing services to eligible participants at 78 services. On August 6, a total of 1 892 eligible people had received subsidized dental services, which included 2 549 dental fillings and 906 extracts. The proportion of the two is about three to one, reflecting that the CDSP has successfully guided users of services to tooth maintenance when the dentist considers to be appropriate, aligning with the government’s initiatives on oral health and dental care.
Following the extension of the scope of the CDSP service, without prejudice to the evaluation by the attendant dentist, each participant may receive dental escalation services and the treatment of a root channel for a tooth every 365 days. For denture removable parts, each participant can receive the service up to twice, with at least five years in between. To ensure the proper use of limited resources to achieve higher cost-efficiency and to allow disadvantages to receive the most effective treatment services, the removable denture service will only be available to eligible people with less than 20 remaining teeth. This person must first be evaluated by a dentist as difficulties in consumption or chewing and their eating abilities could be effectively restored by installing removable dentures.
The CDSP will also expand the list of beneficiaries to cover the homeless, further focusing on the provision of subsidized dental services to the disadvantages in need. The CDSP will use the existing NGO network that serves the homeless, allowing them to be certified and reported by registered social workers to specified NGOs to participate in the CDSP, even when they are unable to provide the required financial proof to meet the eligibility criteria.
CDSP is funded by a co-paying agreement. In addition to government subsidies, participants must bring part of the cost of managing their own health. They are required to finally pay the NGO by providing the service with details as follows:
| Treatment with dental scaling or root for each tooth | Placing removable dentures | |
| Participants of one of the following categories:
(1) Integrated Home Care Care Services (Frail Case) / Enhanced Home and Community Care Services / Home Support Services (Level Remuneration or Co-Computer Category) of the Department of Social Welfare; or (2) Hospital Authority (HA) patients who have been given a resignation from a medical fee (complete exemption) of HA (including recipients of aging 75 years of life or older); or (3) the homeless |
Government will fully subsidize the administration fee | $ 500 co-pay for each set of removable dentures |
| Participants who do not fall into the above three categories | Administration End of 50 $ | $ 1,000 co-pay pay for each set of dentures |
Observations: Each set of removable dentures refers either to upper or lower dentures. The placement of both the upper and the lower removable dentures at the same time is considered to be receiving once the placement of the removable dentures once. The elderly can use elderly healthcare cards to pay for management/co-pay fees under the CDSP.
For details of CDSP (including service management fee), visit the CDSP website or call the open line at 2111 3403. More details on scope and beneficiaries will be announced on the website in due time.
In the meantime, EDAP will stop accepting applications with power from 1 January of the following year. Eligible Elders must submit their application for EDAP through their Service Unit on December 31 of this year and attend the first consultation no later than 31 January next year. The Elder can receive dental services under EDAP if necessary and appropriate after a dentist. After Edap ceases to accept new applications, the CDSP will replace EDAP to provide services. The field of Services of the CDSP after reinforcement will be aligned with that of EDAP.
Information on EDAP, the list of Regional Services Units and Dentists of Community Care/Dental Clinics Website of the Community Care Fund and Hong Kong Dental Union Website. For questions, call the EDAP phone line at 2525 8198.
The government’s oral health policy aims to allow all Hong Kong citizens to enhance their oral hygiene and lifestyle. By adopting strategies for the development of preventive preventive primary health care across the community, while providing the basic dental care services aimed at disadvantaged groups for the formation of dental services, the government aims to help them to help them. With the aim of restoring teeth, thereby enhancing the strengthening of dental and general health levels. Based on the recommendations of the Working Group on the final report on health and dental care, DH started the CDSP as an initiative to provide basic dental care services aimed at the disadvantaged, focusing on the provision of subsidized preventive and therapeutic dental services.
End/Friday, August 15th 2025
Issued on HKT 12:40
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