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Eight Criteria for Selecting a Dental Office

1. Practitioner style. receive reimbursement.)
Do you prefer a dentist who is friendly Keep in mind that insurance coverage
and concerned, asking about your comfort varies enormously. Insurance companies
at every step, or do you prefer a brisk often change their policies about
practitioner who proceeds on the repayment rates, co-payment amounts,
assumption that if you're uncomfortable scheduling, and the like. Practitioners
you'll express that? also feel little duty to remain "loyal"
2. Appointment availability. to plans that themselves have no loyalty.
Are you restricted to certain days of the It isn't unusual for a dentist to start
week or certain times of the day when out working with many insurers and then,
scheduling appointments? Can the dentist years later, begin weeding out the more
adapt your schedule? difficult payers, or simply dropping
3. Office location. coverage altogether. Therefore, searching
Is the practitioner's office conveniently for a dentist based mainly on insurance
near where you live or work, or will you coverage is not recommended.
have to go out of your way to get there? You should also ask about alternative
4. Appointment reliability. payment methods. Many dentists still
Some dentists adhere to schedules more follow the traditional policy of wanting
than others. Some even schedule several payment in full at the end of each visit.
patients for the same time slot. Can you In fact, many dentists today are choosing
afford to wait half an hour, or would to switch from insurance-based practices
that be a problem for you? to a fee-for-service system to regain
5. Expertise. control over treatment processes and
If you have particular procedures in patient care.
mind, such as cosmetic dentistry or More and more dentists offer flexible
implant tooth replacement, does the payment policies, even for more
practitioner have satisfactory experience complicated procedures. Ask whether the
in that specialty? How many years has he office can work out a monthly payment
or she been treating patients with this schedule rather than up-front payment.
specialized care? Some offices accept credit cards, too.
6. Financial considerations. Your dentist should not make you feel in
Money is the first thing that many any way embarrassed for asking questions
patients and practitioners want to about the fee or payment policies. When
discuss. recommending any treatment plan your
7. Insurance plan coverage. dentist should be willing to specify fee
You should have no difficulty learning structure and schedules (and be willing
from the dentist's office staff whether to put it in writing.)
they accept your insurance plan. Keep in 8. Warranties.
mind, however, that many plans provide Few dentists guarantee their work for a
only partial coverage for many specified time period, so a practitioner
procedures, and may limit the frequency who offers an estimated time period, and
of procedures that are covered in full. refuses to put the guarantee in writing,
For instance, your plan might pay for two is not necessarily inferior. However, a
cleanings a year but your dentist may dentist who does stand behind his work is
recommend three. undoubtedly confident of its lasting
It isn't enough to learn only whether quality. That is a good sign, though the
your plan covers a particular patient should also understand that much
practitioner. You will also need to ask dental work is time-limited. Your dentist
whether the office wants full payment should alert you to the life span of the
up-front or accepts a co-payment and treatment made and what he or she
handles its own reimbursement. (If it recommends if the work needs to be redone
doesn't, you are expected to pay the full at some later date, as it often does.
amount, then file paperwork yourself to




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