With the economy in the tank and the stock market exhibiting more volatility than a Philadelphia sporting event, we bring you this financial examination of how we can actually save money by going to the dentist.
And according to this recent story from The Boston Herald, our canine friends can even benefit from regular dental cleanings and oral examinations.
For most of us, when it comes to dental insurance, the average coverage amounts provided are usually just enough to cover costs of our regular thrice yearly office visits. A typical exam, oral cancer screening, tartar or calculus scraping, followed by a visibly effective cleaning and polish, usually does the trick to keep our teeth happy and healthy until our next semi-annual dental experience.
That is IF we’ve kept up those regular visits, and IF we maintain the daily brushing and flossing regimen that some of us severely violate – at least on the flossing end.
Most of us can rest easy knowing our dental insurance pretty much covers all those normal costs associated with a typical 4 or 6 month check-up and exam rotation.
The key to saving money by properly maintaining optimal oral health comes down to two basic elements.
1. Keep up with the regular dental appointments – whether you’re of the every 6 month group, or the heavy coffee indulging, dentally over-achieving every 4 month group.
Keep the appointments. Keep your teeth and gums healthy. Keep more hard-earned money in your pocket!
2. Brush and floss between visits – does this one really need to be said, we’ve all been beaten over the head with this one…but some of us just remain dentally stubborn until we realize the folly of our ways.
And that folly usually costs us more in time and finances than if we simply did the right thing to begin with.
The underlying principle here that equally applies to dental health as it does to finances – at least in this blog post – is this;
“An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” – thanks Ben Franklin
Properly maintaining the daily brushing and flossing in combination with keeping the regular dental appointments will ultimately save us more money than not going to the dentist at all.
This holds true for dogs as it does for dentally irresponsible humans!
We can be stubborn, irresponsible, and forgetful; we as humans have the ability to reason.
