Summer is fun and can also be a great time to take care of things
Before the kids go back to school or you get busy with fall activities, have you cared for your teeth?’
Prevention and planning save you pain, inconvenience, and expense.
Regular care keeps your mouth stable!
Simple one-hour cleanings give the dentist and team a chance to check your oral health, help with habits, and provide the little extra preventive steps that help your dental restorations last, and perhaps keep you and/or your kids from ever needing restorations and unneeded expense.
Planning your schedule now provides us time to care for you at Your convenience!
It is so much nicer to plan an easy afternoon for routine dental care when it works for you and your schedule. The Fall is when most dental offices get really busy and the schedules book up early. If you have a last-minute need or emergency, we will always accommodate you, but it is often less convenient for your schedule. Plan what you would like to take care of now, so it’s easy!
We don’t guide treatment based on dental insurance, but there is a strategy to utilizing your benefits to keep your cost as minimal as possible!
If you have dental care you know you need, or the dental team has recommended, its nice to have the office preauthorize your treatment within a timeframe that allows you to be most informed about your benefits, while structuring your care in a calendar year that maximizes the use of your insurance with the least out of pocket expense. Routinely, toward the end of the year, we can help evaluate your insurance used, and if treatment is important but not emergent, we can recommend whether it makes more sense to wait until the New Year when benefits reset, or to take care of the treatment in the current calendar year. The challenge is if you wait until January 1st and had treatment that may exceed the yearly benefits for a treatment that would have otherwise been covered, and used no insurance the prior year, you may have lost in some cases up to $1500+ of your benefits.
Plan ahead and let us Help You Best!
We love to make dentistry as positive and easy as possible. Call today and schedule a cleaning so we can help.
By Dr. Cynthia E. Stephenson, DDS