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Supplemental Dental Insurance – Do You Need It?

The idea behind supplemental dental insurance is that you already have some sort of dental insurance coverage in place. Supplemental dental insurance picks up the portion of your dental care that is not covered by your primary dental insurance. You must have primary dental insurance before you can purchase supplementary dental insurance coverage.

Individual Dental Needs

Each of us has different needs for dental care; some people need more expensive dental care than others. The reason for this disparity can be any one of a number of different factors. Patients who need more dental care than normal are good candidates for supplemental dental insurance

If a patient's mother had certain vitamin deficiencies while she was pregnant with the patient, these deficiencies can manifest themselves as weakness or discoloration in the patient's permanent adult teeth.

Other patients may have certain dental disorders because of inadequate nutrition while they were children, because they ate too much sugar as children, or because of excessive thumb-sucking as a child.

Some patients have a physiology that requires more dental treatment than would ordinarily have been necessary. Patients with big teeth and a small jaw will probably need to have one or more teeth extracted in preparation for the patient receiving orthodontic care.

Some patients have conditions at birth, such as a cleft palate, that requires ongoing dental and surgical treatment over the years.

Finally, some patients need supplemental dental insurance to repair damage done to their teeth due to neglect, dental malpractice, or drug use. Methamphetamine use, in particular, is devastating to the teeth, and patients who recover from methamphetamine addiction will need the kind of intensive, expensive dental care that is perfectly suited to supplemental dental insurance.

Choosing Supplemental Dental Insurance

When selecting supplemental dental insurance, ask some of the same questions as you would ask about ordinary dental insurance. Find out if you can choose your own dentist or if you have to select a dentist in a certain provider network.

Ask what kinds of services are covered by the plan. There is no sense in buying a supplemental dental insurance plan that does not cover the services you think you will need in the coming years.

Find out how the payment process works. Do you have to pay for dental services up front and seek reimbursement from the supplemental dental insurance provider, or will the provider make payments directly to the dentist?

Comments	Date
By vivien mazzara	2008-05-22 11:12:48
I would like the cost and coverage to take to my dentest. I am interested in getting this mess overwith
By vivien mazzara	2008-05-22 11:10:46
I want price and the coverage as soon as possible. Thank you
By vivien mazzara	2008-05-22 11:09:03
yes.
By vivien mazzara	2008-05-22 11:08:05
My teeth are driving me nuts and making me nervous. I will borrow $ if I have to to get GOOD COVERAGE. I Would like information!
By vivien mazzara	2008-05-22 11:05:26
I have had alot of dental problems. In checking with 2 dentists they say the uppers should have been done differently. My present coverage barely handles it. I want to buy some dental insurance. Some may refer to it as cosmetic but they hurt, the roof palette is to long causing me to gag all the time and there are few foods I can eat without them popping out.
By erin mook	2008-03-13 17:25:09
looking for the cost and coverage of a supplemental dental coverage

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