*Eligibility for VA Dental Benefits
The following veterans are eligible to receive dental care:
- Veterans with service-connected, compensable dental conditions.
- Former POWs.
- Veterans with service-connected, non-compensable dental conditions as a result of combat wounds or service injuries.
- Veterans with non-service-connected dental conditions determined by VA to be aggravating a service-connected medical problem.
- Veterans whose service-connected disabilities have been rated at 100 percent or who are receiving the 100 percent rate by reason of individual unemployability.
- Veterans participating in a VA vocational rehabilitation program.
- Certain veterans enrolled in a VA Homeless Program for 60 consecutive days or more may receive certain medically necessary outpatient dental services.
- Those with non-service-connected dental conditions or disabilities for which treatment was begun while the veteran was in an inpatient status in a VA medical center, when it is clinically determined to be necessary to complete such dental treatment on an outpatient basis.
- Veterans requiring treatment for dental conditions clinically determined to be complicating a medical condition currently under treatment.
*From the Federal Benefits for Veterans, Dependents and Survivors (2009 Edition)
Department of Veterans Affairs, 810 Vermont Ave., N.W., Washington, D.C., 20420
For additional information: http://www.va.gov (opens in a new window).