How to utilize your dental insurance to minimize cost
Have you ever wondered why you have to pay so much money even though you have dental insurance? What most people don’t quite understand is that dental insurance is very different from medical insurance, at least yet in 2015. Unlike the most routine check up appointment at your medical doctor’s office, even a routine dental check up appointment can have many different options to meet each patient’s needs and best prognosis. For example, most patients make their routine dental appointment to get a “cleaning” which they were informed is covered at 100% when they signed up for the insurance. But when they come in for the first time, they can be told many different treatment options with variable cost based on their dental condition just to get a “cleaning.” Some need just a simple dental cleaning called “Prophy” in dental world, or some need deep cleaning which is divided by the 4 sections of your mouth called “Scaling and Root planning in each quadrant,” or some may need gum...