Benefits

SafeGuard’s dental plan through the Healthy Families Program includes:

  • Check-ups, teeth cleanings, and x-rays at no charge
  • Fillings, crowns, bridges and dentures
  • Other dental care services including extractions, root canals and gum treatment

SafeGuard’s vision plan through the Healthy Families Program includes:

  • Comprehensive eye examinations available once a year
  • Standard lenses and selected frames available once a year
  • Annual credit towards the purchase of contact lenses
  • Receive care from any vision care provider or from a SafeGuard prescreened provider

Why Choose SafeGuard?
SafeGuard has been providing benefits to California’s children for 35 years and we know how important your child’s health is to you. Our Healthy Families Program membership continues to grow as more people learn about the service and support we offer.

SafeGuard offers the Healthy Families Program dental and vision plans along with these additional advantages:

  • Large networks of prescreened dental and vision care providers throughout the State of California
  • Knowledgeable and understanding Customer Service representatives who work extended hours to help ensure your questions are answered
  • Emergency exam and treatment available even when your $1,500 maximum has been met (a true dental emergency must exist)

Learn More/Apply

Download an application
Healthy Families Program Application Form 

Request an application
1-800-880-5305

Note: Write "SafeGuard Dental" or "SafeGuard Vision" on your application to choose SafeGuard for your dental and/or vision plan

Children Care Services

Review SafeGuard's policy for dental referrals to Child Care Services. 
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Review SafeGuard's policy for vision referrals to Child Care Services. 
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Contact Us

Customer Service
1-800-880-3080

Website
www.healthyfamilies.ca.gov

Dental benefits provided by SafeGuard Health Plans, Inc., a MetLife company.

Vision programs underwritten by SafeHealth Life Insurance Company, a California corporation and a MetLife company.

Dental Managed Care Plan benefits are provided by Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, a New York corporation in NY. Dental HMO plan benefits are provided by: SafeGuard Health Plans, Inc., a California corporation in CA; SafeGuard Health Plans, Inc., a Florida corporation in FL; SafeGuard Health Plans, Inc., a Texas corporation in TX; and MetLife Health Plans, Inc., a Delaware corporation and Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, a New York corporation in NJ. The Dental HMO/Managed Care companies are part of the MetLife family of companies. "DHMO" is used to refer to product designs that may differ by state of residence of the enrollee, including but not limited to: "Specialized Health Care Service Plans" in California; "Prepaid Limited Health Service Organizations" as described in Chapter 636 of the Florida statutes in Florida; "Single Service Health Maintenance Organizations" in Texas; and "Dental Plan Organizations" as described in the Dental Plan Organization Act in New Jersey.

† U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, Oral Health in America: A Report of the Surgeon General-Executive Summary. Rockville, MD: U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, National Institutes of Health, 2000.