Dental Care. Dental care is provided to you according to need and appropriateness, as determined by the LIFE health team. The first priority of your dental care is to treat pain and acute infections. The second priority is to maintain oral functioning, such as enabling you to chew your food as well as your health and oral conditions permit. Dental services may include: ♦ Diagnostic services - examinations, radiographs. ♦ Preventive services - prophylaxis, oral hygiene instructions. ♦ Restorative dentistry - fillings, temporary or permanent crowns. ♦ Prosthetic appliances - complete or partial dentures. ♦ Oral surgery - extractions, removal/modification of soft and hard tissue. ♦ Services for hearing and speech impairments. ♦ Language translation services. ♦ Other services determined necessary by the LIFE health team to improve and maintain your overall health status. ♦ Cosmetic surgery, unless required for improved functioning of a malformed part of the body resulting from an accidental injury or for reconstruction after mastectomy. ♦ Experimental, medical, surgical, or other health procedures not generally available in the area unless authorized by the LIFE health team. ♦ Any service rendered outside of the United States.
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Samples: Enrollment Agreement, Enrollment Agreement, Enrollment Agreement
