Dentists challenge medical card changes in High Court

Two dentists have commenced High Court proceedings aimed at preventing the HSE from implementing changes to the scheme which allows medical card holders avail of dental treatments free of charge.

Dentists Martin Reid and James Turner claim that the changes outlined in a circular issued last April, which they argue radically confines the services they can offer to medical card holders to emergency services and one oral examination in a 12-month period, will have "a dramatic effect on public health."