Letting Your Insurance Determine Your Dental Health?
Posted on April 10, 2009 | Filed Under Dentistry
No insurance completely covers the dental work most people need over the years. It was never intended to be like medical insurance. You need to view it more like supplemental coverage. Some years your dental insurance will cover what you need and other years it won’t.
A healthy, natural looking smile is one of your best health and cosmetic assets. Maintaining it now will save you in the future.
Look Ma’ No Cavities!
Posted on August 25, 2008 | Filed Under Dentistry, General, Health, St. Louis, Teeth Tips
For Boomers who grew up with this famous toothpaste commercial, I have a news flash: At your age, it’s no longer just about cavities!
If you’ve passed the age of forty, you really should have a mid-life diagnosis to evaluate the overall state of your oral health AND to plan a proper course of treatment that will enable you to keep your teeth for the remainder of your lifetime.
Patients over forty have often shortchanged their dental health or just barely maintained their teeth and gums. With the expense of family taking precedence through the previous two decades, Boomer-aged patients coming to me for the first time are often prepared to play catch-up with their own dental health.
Today you can plan a course of treatment that will ensure you’ve got your own teeth to chew with well into your senior years. In addition, nothing is more youthful than a natural-looking white smile. Unlike your parents, if you take care now you can have both.
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Sorry maam, your insurance only covers bumpers and tires
Posted on January 22, 2008 | Filed Under Dentistry
That’s about what your dental insurance would cover if you were a car. If you had to have your car towed to a garage, and the mechanic discovered you needed a new alternator, belts, and a laundry list of other repairs, would you say, I’ll hold off for now on the battery and belts. My insurance company won’t cover those?
Relying on what insurance will cover to get through your life’s dental care is like playing the slot machines in Vegas. You might wind up a winner, with all your teeth in your senior years. More common is that people require more dentistry than insurance covers.
