Dental treatment plan to be scrapped

A scheme to help low income earners get dental treatment is to be scrapped despite an outcry from dentists.

The Government claims not enough people have shown an interest in the scheme which offers financial help.

But Association for Oral Health Chairman Hans Zoellner says the Government has been doing its best to make sure they don't even know about it.

“Most of the 2 million Australians who are eligible don’t know about it and anybody who did know about it and was using the scheme got a letter incorrectly saying that the scheme was closed and threatening that if the scheme was halfway through a course of care medicare might just not pay.”