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General information about costs, not dental, medical, insurance, tax or financial advice. Your dentist decides what treatment suits you; your plan’s documents and a pre-treatment estimate decide what it pays.
We can’t answer questions about your treatment or your bill
We are not a dental practice, an insurer, a discount plan or a lender, and we can’t answer questions about individual cases. That means we can’t review a treatment plan, a quote, an explanation of benefits (EOB) or a claim. We can’t say which treatment to choose, whether a treatment is needed, whether a fee is reasonable, what your plan will pay, whether Medicare or Medicaid will cover something for you, or whether you should borrow. We can’t recommend a dentist, a specialist, a dental school, a plan, a discount plan or a lender, and we don’t refer anyone to one. We don’t contact dental offices, plans, agencies or lenders for anyone.
For your own situation, these can help:
- Your dental office: ask for a written treatment plan listing each procedure and its code number, what the fee includes and what is billed apart.
- Your dental plan: ask for a pre-treatment estimate, how much of your annual maximum is left, and whether a waiting period or a missing tooth clause applies. Our guide to how dental insurance works explains the terms.
- Medicare: medicare.gov, and for a Medicare Advantage plan, the plan itself. See does Medicare cover dental.
- Medicaid and CHIP: your state Medicaid agency, and InsureKidsNow.gov to find dentists who take Medicaid or CHIP for children. See Medicaid dental for adults.
- Lower-cost care: HRSA’s Find a Health Center lists federally funded health centers, which offer fees based on income. See free and low-cost dental care.
- A problem with a credit card or loan: the lender first, in writing, and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s complaint page.
Reporting an error
Please include the address of the page, the figure, rule, code number, calculator result or sentence you think is wrong, and a link to a regulation, agency page, IRS publication, plan document or the publisher’s own page for the right information if you have one. We check every report against the source. Medicaid benefits, Medicare’s rules, yearly limits and lenders’ terms change, so a report that something has changed is especially welcome. Our corrections page explains what happens next.
Dentists, insurers, lenders and advertisers
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What not to send
Please don’t send treatment plans, quotes, X-rays, photos of your teeth, explanations of benefits, claim or member numbers, card or account numbers, Social Security numbers, health details or other personal information, yours or anyone else’s. We don’t need them to check a page, and we won’t review them. Our privacy policy explains how we handle what you send us.