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Ok, here's what is subsidised, assuming you speak German:
https://www.verbraucherzentrale.de/wissen/gesundheit-pflege/krankenversicherung/alle-kassenleistungen-der-zahnmedizin-im-ueberblick-12921
Call that nonsense if you wish, I'm not going to enter into a discussion of that kind.
So clearly you haven't been to the dentist in Germany, or even read that very article you posted. Yes the 6-monthly checkup is covered, that's great. But the subsidy for fillings in molars, for example, only covers amalgam fillings. Dentists don't actually do those anymore, so you have to pay more than 100€ "extra" to get a resin one. The majority of other situations are similar to that. In the end, even though the rule says that medically necessary things are supposed to be covered, in practice they really aren't.