5 million Canadians are now covered by National Dental Care Plan, but about half is not done to a dentist.

Health Canada is avoiding the major uptake of its public dental insurance program, but data suggests that about half of the 5.2 million eligible patients of 5.2 million have not yet been seen to a dentist.

2.8 million of the canadians approved for coverage have been in a dental clinic.

New data comes six months after the Canadian Dental Care Plan is expanded to cover children aged 18-64. So far, 1.8 million people have been approved for the scheme in this latest corort. A quarter of them have actually used the program so far.

Health Canada still states that about 100 percent of active dentists, dentists and independent dentists are treating patients through the program. It is an important milestone considering Early lift from dentists was low,

The National Insurance Program gives subsidy to the residents of Canada with a family net income below $ 90,000, if they do not have access to private insurance schemes.

The scheme helps pay for a series of dental works including cleaning, filler and denture. Health Canada says that on average, each patient has $ 800 in the expenses covered per year.

Dental clinics can also do “balance bill”, which means they can charge more than covering the federal government, which requires the patient to pay the difference.

The Canadian Dental Care Plan started in May 2024 for senior citizens, then children and Canadian people received credit by disability. In May 2025, all these characters expanded to Canadian people.

Large scale, the public insurance program of the multibillion-dollars was brought as a result of NDP, which inspired the previous Trudeau Liberal Minority Government for two years for two years for two years in the House of Commons in exchange for major social programs such as dentistry.