Friday, August 21, 2009

Saving Money with Dental Insurance

By Shelton Graham

Are you looking for affordable dental insurance in Dallas Texas? Texas has multiple cheap dental plans available for individual, family, group and more, especially in the more populated areas of the state, such as Houston, San Antonio, Dallas - Fort Worth and more. The thing that you actually need to consider before buying any dental plan though is if dental insurance is your best option or if buying a dental discount plan would make more sense. Let's have a look at both.

Dental discount plans are not an insurance policy, but simply a network of dentists that offer substantial savings for joining the plan. The dentists get enormous discounts on items and apparatus the use each day in their practice as one motivation for being members. Also, plan members must pay their dentist the full discounted rate at the time of the appointment. Let me give you an example. Let's say that you need to have a root canal performed on a Molar tooth and the usual cost of having this done is $829.00, but with the discount card your cost would only be $488.00, for a savings of $371.00.

You would be required to pay the $488.00 at the time of your visit in full. It's a "win-win" for both parties because the patient saves nearly 45% off the cost of their procedure and the dentist gets his money straight without needing to fill out any claim forms, wait forty five days or longer for the insurance company to pay them or make payment arrangements, that don't always work out in their favor.

Decent dental insurance can be expensive, irrespective of where you live. I recently read that the price of dental insurance has gone up over 5 hundred p.c during the past decade. Unfortunately, the quality of care has fell at the same time. Dental insurance won't cover any established issues that you may have and is centered often on preventive care.

You will have an extended waiting period before any of your established conditions will be covered and even then you can still need to share the pricetag in most cases.

If you chance to live in Dallas Texas or any other state and are looking for reasonable insurance, I highly endorse that you're taking an intense look at dental discount plans before you spend your hard earned money. - 14130

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