Do You Have Limited or No Dental Insurance?
Top 10 list on how to get the best dental care with limited dental insurance.
- Do you have a toothache, pain, or infection? Get a toothache, pain, and/or infection seen by your dentist early before the problem spreads to tooth loss or to other teeth. The sooner treated, the less extensive and less expensive the dental care.
- Ask your dentist all the choices for treating a bad tooth. A root canal, build-up filling, and crown is usually the best and most common therapy for a toothache. If a budget plan is needed, these three treatments can be spread out over time.
- Consider doing the dentistry in phases to make the dentistry fit your budget. You could do the worst treatments or the worst areas of your mouth, then lesser and lesser treatments or areas.
- Investigate less expensive alternate treatment plans that though they make not be as strong, last as long, or look and feel quite as good, are less extensive and less expensive than the Ideal Treatment Plan. If the Ideal is just too much, look into extracting the worst teeth instead of saving them and replacing them later.
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- Have your dentist explain with charts, models, and videos different ways to replace missing teeth from implants, to fixed bridges, to removable bridges (partials), and on to dentures. Permanent replacement can be deferred to up to a year after teeth are removed, if needed, by making an inexpensive temporary fixed or removable bridge (flipper).
- Make a plan for treating your gum disease. Gum disease is found to some degree in most adult mouths, usually causes no pain until it is very severe, grows slowly, eats away at the bone around the roots of the teeth that hold in the teeth, and is the primary reason adults loose teeth.
Check with your dentist as to what insurance plans he/she accepts and what sources of funding are available. Since dental insurance is expensive and has not raised annual coverage for most people in years, it might be to your advantage to forgo insurance and deal with your dentist on his/her fees and funding plans. There are several good long-term plans available for budget funding with low to no interest to you. - Check with your dentist as to what insurance plans he/she accepts and what sources of funding are available. Since dental insurance is expensive and has not raised annual coverage for most people in years, it might be to your advantage to forgo insurance and deal with your dentist on his/her fees and funding plans. There are several good long-term plans available for budget funding with low to no interest to you.
- Plan what kind of crowns are placed in your mouth so you can effect the cost of your dentistry and the look of the result. All metal crowns, gold or silver, are the strongest. Cosmetic crowns range from porcelain crowns layered over a metal substructure, some with hidden metal substructures, and the most cosmetic without any metal.
Consider the many aesthetic choices to get what you want. Aesthetic enhancement of the front teeth can range from inexpensive, simple whitening and cosmetic reshaping of the teeth, to full facial bondings, or all the way to all-porcelain veneers and crowns. The look, length of service, and costs can vary quite a bit. - Consider the many aesthetic choices to get what you want. Aesthetic enhancement of the front teeth can range from inexpensive, simple whitening and cosmetic reshaping of the teeth, to full facial bondings, or all the way to all-porcelain veneers and crowns. The look, length of service, and costs can vary quite a bit.
- Sedation and new anesthetic techniques can make a big difference in the experience of getting your dentistry done. Instead of clenched fists, you can awake from a refreshing snooze with all the dentistry done without any discomfort, sounds, or memory of the work.
DENTAL Economics Topics
Progression of Dental Infection
Emergency Treatment Options
Doing Dentistry in Phases
Alternate Treatment Options
Teeth Replacement Alternatives
Treatment of Gum Disease
Insurance and Dental Funding
Types of Dental Crowns
Aesthetic Choices
Sedation and Anesthesia
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