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Do I actually need the dental insurance?

Many of us asked this question. While you are young and healthy, have no problems with your teeth, and visit the doctor 2 times a year for preventive maintenance you will refuse dental insurance since cost of the insurance can be much greater cost of your treatment. However, if you not absolutely healthy person and have not the most pleasant impressions from visiting dentists, certainly, it will be favorable to you to get such insurance. Even despite of water fluorination in the USA, annually millions of Americans require this or that dental health treatment. There is a set of the factors influencing health of our teeth: the hygiene, consumed food, stress, personal habits, etc. Even in perfect conditions, sooner or later, the majority of people would face expenses of dental treatment.

There are two basic kinds of dental insurance which allow patients:
A) To choose the dentist at own will (open panel);
B) To choose the dentist from the given list (closed panel).

To the first group includes:
1) dental indemnity insurance;
2) direct reimbursement.

The second group includes:
1) the professional organization giving services (PPO - professional provider organization), and its “version” EPO (Exclusive Provider Organization);
2) the organization of public health services (HMO - health maintenance organization);
3) the insurance based on the reduced cost of treatment (dental discount plans).

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Yours sincerely,
AlexSandra

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