Dental Insurance.

Our office has always been happy to work with patients covered by dental insurance. We think insurance is a great incentive to maintain a vital level of dental health. But it is a rare dental plan that covers 100% of our fees.

The fees we charge for dental services are the same for every patient, insured or not. A given insurance policy, however, is based on a fixed fee schedule that the insurance company generates. They call it their "usual and customary fee schedule", but they can set the fees any way they like. Usually these fees are years behind the real world, especially when your company's dental plan was written 10 or 20 years ago. Dentistry has changed very quickly, insurance fee schedules have not. After all, insurance companies are profitable businesses, not dental benefactors.

Further, insurance companies reimburse you an amount they figure is commensurate with average quality dentistry in an average office with "average" falling somewhere between the best dentistry and the worst. We pride ourselves in our services to our patients, and our belief has always been that the quality of our dentistry is the best in the world.

We are happy to help you with any insurance questions you have. We’ll go over your policy with you, try to maximize your benefits, and request a predetermination of benefits to let you know what your insurer will pay, before the dentistry is started. But please remember your insurer dictates your coverage - we don’t.