when you have visited the dentist for a filling or clean etc can you get rebate from medicare?

No. If you have any private cover you can generally get a couple of cleans a year free but nothing from Medicare for basic stuff like that.

cheers MP

You can claim for most teenagers, for a single visit, up to about $150 per year, under the Medicare Teen Dental Plan.

You should have a voucher for that though. Don't know if you can do it without the piece of paper

You are right, you do NEED that voucher.

Is it very expensive to receive dental treatment in case of tootache, for example? Or Medicare covers all costs like that?

Medicare doesn't cover oral healthcare.

Easily fixed....
Service 311 - "Removal of Tooth" : $109 to $230

or
Service 535 - "White Filling - 5 Surfaces - Back Tooth" : $196 to $399

Plus of course the:
Service 011 - "Comprehensive Oral Exam" : $42 to $104

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....or, as in the case of my teenage son. Multiple extractions, including wisdom teeth, overnight stay in hospital, all prep work for braces being fitted. 'Estimated' total cost... about $12k.

Hubby just had five zirconium crowns on his teeth ($440 each), plus cleaning and root canal in Dubai - total cost -A$2400....would have cost him half that in India.

Isn't there a school dental bus as well?

That is normally for Primary schools, but not 100% of all schools do them.

Some of them only do a check up, then refer you to a normal dentist for any work, some, I think, also do basic fillings etc.

Thats not much dearer than in Ireland, I don't know the comparison with the 535, but getting a tooth removed is about the same price over here

I took out 'extras' as part of my medical insurance for an additional $5 a week.

I went to the dentist - for the first time in about 10 years last month.

I was so thankful to have the insurance. The initial consultation plus three tooth xrays came to about $270 in total however knocking off the insurance contribution I only paid $30 which was towards the xrays.

I had to go back for three fillings. They came to $360 although the insurance paid $240 of that