Eligibility for dental services is based upon service component guidance to the Remote Health Readiness Program. Dental services include:
- Exam Indication: All service members without a current dental exam within the past nine months will usually receive a new dental exam.
- Health History: Service member completes health history.
- Bitewing X-Rays: Taken with every dental exam.
- Blood pressure: Will be recorded for every dental exam.
- Panoramic X-ray (pano): No time requirement, to be taken if no pano is in the dental record, if significant change has occurred since the last one, or if deploying.
- Dental Examination: Each service member will be seen by a licensed dentist.
- Review of health history and appropriate x-ray(s).
- Periodontal screening and recording.
- Charting of all dental disease. Classification designated.
- Original exam documents entered into service member’s record.
- Exam QA: Dental exams and ancillary documents are shipped to RHRP and reviewed. After review completed documents are mailed back to service member’s medical unit.
- Digital Storage: All copies of records are digitized and stored within the dental system of record.
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Last Updated: September 10, 2026