VA dental care

You’re in: Class I

You may qualify for: Any needed dental care

You’re in: Class IIC

You may qualify for: Any needed dental care

You’re in: Class IV

You may qualify for: Any needed dental care*

*Please note: If you’re being paid at the 100% disabling rate based on a temporary rating (for a reason such as a long stay in the hospital or rehab care), that doesn’t qualify you for this benefit.

You’re in: Class IV

You may qualify for: Any needed dental care*

*Please note: If you’re being paid at the 100% disabling rate based on a temporary rating (for a reason such as a long stay in the hospital or rehab care), that doesn’t qualify you for this benefit.

You’re in: Class II

You may qualify for: One-time dental care if you meet all of the requirements listed below

All of these must be true for you:

• You didn’t receive a dishonorable discharge, and
• You apply for dental care within 180 days of discharge or release, and
• Your DD214 certificate of discharge doesn’t show that you had a complete dental exam and all needed dental treatment before you were discharged*

Please note: If you got a dental award letter from VBA dated before 1955 stating that your dental conditions aren’t compensable, then you are no longer eligible for Class II outpatient dental treatment. This is because of Public Law 83, which was enacted June 16, 1955, and which amended Veterans’ eligibility for outpatient dental services.

You’re in: Class IIA

You may qualify for: Any dental care needed to make sure you have and can keep a functioning dentition (a working set of teeth)

You should know: A Dental Trauma Rating (VA Form 10-564-D) or VA Regional Office Rating Decision letter (VA Form 10-7131) will tell you the tooth/teeth/condition(s) that are trauma rated.

You’re in: Class III

You may qualify for: Dental care to treat the oral conditions that a VA dental care provider concludes are directly making your service-connected health condition worse

You’re in: Class V

You may qualify for: Dental care that a VA dental care provider concludes is needed to achieve at least one of the goals listed below

The dental care must be needed to:

• Make it possible for you to be in the employment program, or
• Make it possible for you to reach the goals of your Veteran Readiness and Employment program, or
• Prevent you from having to stop your employment program, or
• Help you get back to your employment program faster if you’ve had to stop (and are in “interrupted” or “leave” status), or
• Help you get back to your employment program faster if you’ve had to stop (and are in “discontinued” status) because of an illness, injury, or dental condition, or
• Make it possible for you to get and adjust to a job during the period of employment assistance, or
• Make it possible for you to be fully independent in your daily living

You’re in: Class VI

You may qualify for: Dental care to treat the dental issue that a VA dental care provider finds is making the health condition you’re being treated for harder to treat

You’re in: Class IIB

You may qualify for: A one-time course of dental care that a VA dental care provider concludes you need to achieve at least one of the goals listed below.

The dental care must be needed to:

• Relieve your pain, or
• Help you get a job, or
• Treat your moderate, severe, or complicated and severe gingival and periodontal conditions (gum infections that can lead to pain, swelling, and bone and tooth loss if not treated)

You’re in: Inpatient status

You may qualify for: Dental services that a VA dental care provider—working with your primary care provider—concludes you need to manage a health condition a doctor is currently treating you for