Question juridique clé
Whether the dental focus sanitation qualified as medically necessary treatment covered by compulsory health insurance.
Solution extraite
No; the measures were dental treatment, not medical treatment, and the statutory exceptions for dental coverage did not apply.
Motifs extraits
The decisive criteria are the treatment approach and therapeutic objective. Here, the extraction and bridging were therapeutic measures on the chewing system; their direct aim was removal of the dental focus, while endocarditis prevention was only an indirect purpose.