Letters have started to arrive in the mailboxes of Canadian seniors inviting them to sign up for free dental care, but those who provide the services say they’re concerned whether the program will be administratively and financially viable for them to take part.
“If our questions aren’t answered and our concerns aren’t addressed, I don’t know if dentists are going to want to sign up for this program,” said Dr. Brock Nicolucci, president of the Ontario Dental Association.
By 2025, Canada’s national plan will provide dental care to all low- and middle-income Canadians, a program dentists and public health-care experts have advocated decades for.
