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Dentist Thinks All Dentists Should Drop Dental Insurance (video)

July 28, 2021 By Jim Du Molin Leave a Comment

Dental insurance is a great way to bring in new dental patients, but it is also a great way to reduce a dental practice’s bottom line and give dentists less control over their dental practice.

Explained one endodontist, “If I dropped dental insurance I’d be cutting ties to 85% of my patient base!”

Another doctor suggested, “If all dentists dropped all insurances, then all dentists could collect fees in full from everyone!”

The Wealthy Dentist conducted a survey asking dentists if they have dropped dental insurance. Many dentists responded that they are sick and tired of dental insurance companies dictating fees and treatments, leaving a number of them wanting to drop their dental health plans.

To hear more of what dentists had to say about dropping dental insurance, Click Play —

What are your thoughts on dental insurance?

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Dentists Discuss Denture Patient Expectations (video)

July 28, 2021 By Jim Du Molin Leave a Comment

The American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons states that 69% of adults ages 35 to 44 have lost at least one permanent tooth to an accident, gum disease, a failed root canal or tooth decay, and by age 74, 26% of adults have lost all of their permanent teeth.

Dentures are an affordable solution for people with missing teeth.

Dentures are great, but they are not magic, a fact overlooked by a lot of denture wearers.

Dentures can be challenging for both doctor and patient, as revealed in a The Wealthy Dentist survey where we asked dentists if dental patients have realistic expectations about dentures.

Complained one dentist, who responded to the survey, “No matter how much you tell them how difficult it’s going to be, they still don’t get it!”

A dental implantologist responded, “For every other procedure, I have a sing-page consent form. For dentures my consent form is 4 pages long!”

To hear how dentists responded to the denture survey, Click on Play to watch the survey video —

To you still place dentures at your dental practice?

Are patients happy with the results?

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Why Dental Insurance Can Be Aggravating for Dentists (video)

July 28, 2021 By Jim Du Molin Leave a Comment

Many dentists feel that dental insurance is the bane of their existence.

Dentists often say that dealing with dental insurance is one of the most complicated aspects of dental practice management.

In fact, most dental patients have little understanding of how their dental insurance coverage actually works. The intricacies of dental insurance and the lack of sufficient instruction provided by some insurance companies make it almost impossible for some dental patients to properly understand their dental insurance benefits.

This creates a widening divide between patients’ expectations of their dentist’s fees and what their the actual dental insurance coverage provides.

As one prosthodontist complained in a The Wealthy Dentist Survey on dental insurance, “My patients demand that I accept insurance assignments. At first I refused, but I lost more than half of my dental patients to other practitioners accepting insurance.”

The Wealthy Dentist survey asked dentists if they see dental insurance as friend or foe.

Not all dentists who responded to the survey see dealing with dental insurance as all bad.

“Patients with dental insurance coverage are much more likely to agree to a treatment plan,” responded one dentist.

To hear what dentists had to say about dealing with dental insurance, Click on play to watch the following video —

What are your thoughts on dealing with dental insurance?

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Dentists Support Water Fluoridation (video)

July 28, 2021 By Jim Du Molin Leave a Comment

The Wealthy Dentist conducted a survey asking dentists if they are in favor of water fluoridation.

85% of the dentists who responded to the survey are in favor of fluoridation of drinking water.

Water fluoridation has become a hotly-debated topic in cities throughout the U.S. with Portland, Oregon, being the latest city to consider water fluoridation. Fluoridation is either considered a medical miracle or involuntary mass medication, depending on the dentist you ask.

Said one orthodontist in this survey, “There’s a reason fluoride was rated by one of the top 10 health policies of the 21st century.”

Whereas another dentist declared, “It is forced medication of questionable benefit, and its source is chemical waste from fertilizer processing plants…Yuck!”

To hear what dentists had to say about fluoride, Click on Play —

What are your thoughts on fluoride in drinking water?

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Half of Dentists Use Dental Lasers for Gum Disease (video)

July 28, 2021 By Jim Du Molin Leave a Comment

Dentists are split over the use of dental lasers to fight gum disease. When dentists were asked if they use lasers on soft tissue in their dental practices, respondents were split right down the middle.