Dental Plans: Be Aware Medicare & Dental Apparently, Medicare does not believe that teeth are part of one’s body. (Well, of course, they aren’t part of some people’s bodies.) Why do I say that? It is because Medicare does not provide dental coverage. Advantage Plans & Dental Coverage If that is true, you may ask, how is it that some Medicare plans can advertise that they cover dental? Medicare Advantage Plans, which are different from Original Medicare, do, in some cases, have minimal dental coverage. However, there are two general issues with dental coverage in Advantage Plans. Even if your Advantage Plan includes dental, the problem is finding a dentist in the network. For example, in one particular Advantage Plan, there are only two dentists in an entire service area in Texas—a hundred miles apart! The second problem with typical Advantage Plan ...via Claeys Group Insurance Services - Tyler, TX Medicare Insurance Agency