The Province and the dental society have a new deal to keep providing dental services to more than 51,000 clients of Social Development.
The contract is retroactive to April 1st of last year and runs until March 31, 2015. By April 1st of 2014, the province will cover 81.5 per cent of the services compared to the current 68 per cent.
Over the course of the deal, the department will invest about $21 million in dental services for social development clients.
