How do I go to the dentist?
This is incredibly embarrasasing, but my teeth are falling right out of my head and I haven't gone to the dentist, because I don't know... how... :confused: What I mean is the procedure. I do have a dental insurance plan, but I'm not sure how it works. I'll lose that insurance plan in 2 months on my 25th birthday and I desperately need to fix my poor mouth! Here are questions that I have:
Is there a co-pay and then the rest is billed to insurance (less what I am responsible for)?
Or do I have to have a lot of money up front? Can they bill me or is payment due when services are rendered?
What about having a consultation done? I'd like to go in, be assessed and then develop a game plan with the dentist and proceed from there. But what is the cost for this? Is this covered under a typical insurance plan?
Someone told me that you can apply for a type of "credit card" with the dentist for your expenses. What is all this about?
I apologize if I seem ignorant. We never went to the dentsist as children, and even though I floss regularly and brush twice a day, AND use alcohol free mouthwash, I'm still having trouble and COPIOUS amounts of confusion.
(Oh, and by the way, I have broken half of two teeth down into the root, and chipped a large hole in another where a cavity had been)