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Yes I would have thought so. They probably won't pay for crowns and the like though. Why not email and ask?

If the toothache started after you'd left home and after your insurance contract started covering you then it isn't pre-existing ...unless the tooth in question has given you trouble before. Asking for clarification shouldn't change anything.

Some insurance policies have a clause saying they won't cover you for non-urgent medical problems that occur within (say) 10 days of the start of the contract. Check the small print to see if this applies to you. They do this to stop people who (for example) develop toothache and THEN take out travel insurance to cover the cost of treatment. You'd still be covered you if you happened get run over by a bus the day you signed the contract because that is obviously not a pre-existing condition.

World Nomads allow you to extend your contract while you're away. This sounds like a good thing when you don't know exactly how long you'll be travelling. However there is a catch...when you extend your contract they treat it like a new policy. This has implications. A couple of years ago I had an ear infection and the treatment didn't work so I had to go back to the doctor again. So happened that my insurance ran out between these two doctors' visits and World Nomads wouldn't cover the cost of the second one because it was considered a pre-existing condition. This isn't too important when it's something like ear ache but it could be if you were in the middle of treatment for a serious road accident or something. Just a heads up when you're deciding what policy to chose.