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Dental Insurance?

Posted: Jul 27, 2015

Can anyone recommend a good dental plan? I think I need two root canals and have about zero money for it. One infection I've had for almost 2 years.

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Something you really need to look at - is dental clinics through SM

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local technical colleges or medical school. Any free community health clinics in your area?

The best thing we found for my husband who had 2 teeth pulled which had lost old fillings and had recurrent infections, was a dental program called "blank" I better google it and give you hints, I dont want this post deleted and me banned for referring you to another site.

The program is out of Florida, but they have participating dentists all over the country. It's completely free, you get either a filling, a cleaning, or an extraction at a visit.

If you google the exact phrase "free dental events" the first listing should be the one we used out of Port Richey, Florida. They are the organization who sponsors it and dentists from all over the country participate.

I hope this helps. We were EXTREMELY grateful to the providers we saw.

Dental insurance - redmaj

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I have had dental insurance most of my working life, but none for the past 8 years. I found a great dentist who lets me make payments, plus I seriously think when a dentist knows you do not have insurance, they don't charge as much. I have to have a root canal and my dentist sent me to a microendo guy, who is charging 1100 for the root canal-I know, ridiculous. It is done in 2 phases, 4 weeks apart and I have to have the 500 up front before he will start. He wouldn't take payments which is ridiculous. I give my debit number to my regular dentist. Oh, and when you get a root canal, you will need to get a cap on it since it will be a dead tooth and will eventually crumble!! OMG-so that is like over 2,000 for one tooth!! Good Luck!

Thank you both for the info (sm) - Linda

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We have a free dental clinic locally, but I think mine would require an oral surgeon. I will try antibiotics again. I lost a tooth that the cap fell off and it crumbled, leaving just a tiny fang but the cavity never healed closed and it got infected. The costs are just impossible, but I'll keep checking and in the meantime try antibiotics again. Improved the first time but didn't cure.
Thanks again!

Linda, I had Delta Dental...SM - Old Anon

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through AAA when I was self employed. I don't know if all states carry it, and you have to be a AAA member. I paid about $40 a month. There may be a waiting period for major work, and I think mine only covered up to $1500. BC/BS in my state also carries a dental plan and you don't have to have their health insurance to get it. I think Humana also has a dental plan.

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