General dental includes items related to general oral health - check-ups, scale & clean, simple fillings etc.
Major dental includes crowns & bridgework, oral surgery, periodontics, endodontics, orthodontics and other specialised dental procedures.

Defence Health has set benefits for individual dental services. Some services are not payable in combination with others. Some are limited by the number of times they attract a benefit per year. Others may not attract a benefit at all. If you are planning extensive treatment, ask your dentist for the item numbers and costs, then call us for a quote.

$400 per person

Unlimited

Visit one of our Member Priority providers - Blink Optical, The Optical Superstore, Stacey & Stacey or Kevin Paisley Eyewear - to get a discount on your optical purchase.

• Single vision lenses

$150 per person

• Ground single vision lenses

• Bi-focal lenses

• Multi-focal lenses

• Frames

• Contact lenses

• Initial consultation

$450 per person
up to
$1,000 per family

• Subsequent consultation

• Group therapy session

• Hydrotherapy session

• Ante / post natal class max 10
  (or full day ante-natal class up to $100)

• Consultation

$150 per person

• Per prescription 

$250 per person

Defence Health provides a benefit for non-PBS pharmaceuticals. The benefit payable is the difference between the prescription amount and the PBS fee. The PBS fee is set by the Australian Government and is increased annually on 1 January.

Benefits are also payable for vaccinations cot covered by the PBS (such as those recommended by doctors for overseas travel).

No benefit is payable for items not related to a medical condition, products that can be purchased without a script or pharmaceutical items supplied to a hospital inpatient.

General dental includes items related to general oral health - check-ups, scale & clean, simple fillings etc.
Major dental includes crowns & bridgework, oral surgery, periodontics, endodontics, orthodontics and other specialised dental procedures.

Defence Health has set benefits for individual dental services. Some services are not payable in combination with others. Some are limited by the number of times they attract a benefit per year. Others may not attract a benefit at all. If you are planning extensive treatment, ask your dentist for the item numbers and costs, then call us for a quote.

$400 per person

Unlimited

Visit one of our Member Priority providers - Blink Optical, The Optical Superstore, Stacey & Stacey or Kevin Paisley Eyewear - to get a discount on your optical purchase.

• Single vision lenses

$150 per person

• Ground single vision lenses

• Bi-focal lenses

• Multi-focal lenses

• Frames

• Contact lenses

• Initial consultation

$450 per person
up to
$1,000 per family

• Subsequent consultation

• Group therapy session

• Hydrotherapy session

• Ante / post natal class max 10
  (or full day ante-natal class up to $100)

• Consultation

$150 per person

• Per prescription 

$250 per person

Defence Health provides a benefit for non-PBS pharmaceuticals. The benefit payable is the difference between the prescription amount and the PBS fee. The PBS fee is set by the Australian Government and is increased annually on 1 January.

Benefits are also payable for vaccinations cot covered by the PBS (such as those recommended by doctors for overseas travel).

No benefit is payable for items not related to a medical condition, products that can be purchased without a script or pharmaceutical items supplied to a hospital inpatient.