Missing teeth: Who’s left out of Canada’s dental care plan

The opinions and recommendations in this report, and any errors, are those of the authors, and do not necessarily reflect the views of the funders of this report. [...] Phase two: The second phase, called the Canada Dental Care Plan (CDCP), will come in the form of actual insurance, where the program will directly pay dental clinics for expenses incurred, in contrast to the flat amount from the CDB in phase one. [...] For the counts of people aged 12 and over, the proportions from the 2022 analysis of the Canada Community Health Survey (CCHS) from Statistics Canada is used in conjunction with estimates from SPSD/M 30.0 for the counts of people in census families with a net adjusted family income of less than $90,000. [...] For the five provinces where dental insurance coverage data isn’t in the CCHS, we assume that the coverage rates above and below $90,000 in household income are the same, on average, as the provinces with data. [...] Alternatively, the CCHS provides the total count of people in the household (including children under 12) and it includes the household type.