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Well, it depends how much treatment you need, first and foremost.
Second of all, their are things called co-payments
and dental insurance companies negotiate with the
purchasers
of the plan,
if you will,
whether or not they want it to be a 100% for their patients or
for their staff
when they go to the
dentist
or the hygienist.
If it's written into your plan, it's sort of like
If I just
smashed my windshield with a rock that came off of somebody's truck on the highway.
You go to your Speedy auto glass or your glass centre
and say "Hey, so can my insurance
cover this?"
Well, did you pay for the premium to cover that class insurance?
So, it depends on your premiums
and what your
your employer or what a person who has their own company and chooses the
dental plan
and the medical plan and the travel insurance and disability insurance,
it all comes with a group benefit
package.
So
some plans are
what they call 100%.
Now, 100% of what?
100% of preventative?
-which is your cleanings and your check-ups etc
They might roll it back to 80%
more advanced work, maybe 80% only on
extractions and then
you get into the orthodontics, and the bridges, and the crowns, and the insurance
company may only pay 50%.
Every plan is different, it's like a snowflake.
No two snowflakes are alike
and there are hundreds of dental plans out there.
People need to be aware of what plan they have and what
they've gotten from their employer,
and they need to discuss that with the girls at the front desk
or with the doctor,
because we understand the plans sometimes as well as anyone in the office
and we can figure out for them before the work is done or what
type of work they're looking to do and whether or not the insurance is going to
pay for some of it or pay for none of it
or pay for all of it.