There is still no agreement between the health insurance policies and the dental association for free fillings. Amalgam may not be used since the beginning of the year.
If you have a hole in a molar tooth, you should vibrate even more when you visit the dentist then normal. Towards the end of 2024, health insurance policies (ÖGK) and social security are still dependent on dental fillings from Amalgam, but this was prohibited by the EU on 11,2025.
The responsible persons have known it since the end of July 2024, but instead of finding a new solution, the dental association (Özzak) and the ÖGK prefer to criticize each other. As so often, the patients fall along the road, and so since the beginning of the year there are actually no free fillings for it.
Dispute about filling material
And what are the negotiators? For the front teeth, composite, ie the so -driven “white” filling, is used – pay the cash register. For choosing, the ÖGK trusts Alkasite, the Özak, on the other side of Glasionomercement (GIZ), which is also used in some dental health centers of the ÖGK.
Incidentally, there is already an agreement with the insurance company in public officials, railways and mining-the traditionally financially strong BVAEB pays Giz fillings anyway.
Politically also recognized the problem. “The patient’s well-being was not in a second,” Ronny Rull (VP) and TK boss Köfer criticized: “It will immediately need a replacement funded by money.” And hope for one evaluation until the end of the quarter.
Source: Krone
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