Buying Additional Dental Insurance for Children

While all health insurance plans through Covered California include children's dental insurance at no extra cost, you can buy additional dental insurance for your kids in the form of a family dental plan. One reason to enroll children in a family dental plan is that your dental service provider may not be in the same network as the dental insurance that is included with the child’s health plan. When children are insured by both a health plan and a family dental plan, the two plans will “coordinate covered services.”