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Dental Work to Restore a Normal Smile
By Michael Russell

As a child in school I had a serious dental accident. It happened during a physical education class. We were playing a game with two teams which took place inside a large empty room with a wood floor. The sides of the room were lined with old theatre chairs linked together at their feet by wooden planks. Two teams at opposite ends of the hall would line up across the room. Then the teams would run forward en mass, meeting in the middle of the room. Each team would try to keep members of the other team from proceeding past them to the far end of the room. A certain amount of wrestling was involved to stop the other team members. Sometimes a person would be grabbed around the legs and team members would be hauled down to the floor. The team that had the most members who made it to the far end of the room won.

During one of these scuffles I had moved quite close to the edge of the room where the chairs were. I fell hard hitting the floor. My mouth hit the wood of the floor and perhaps part of the board at the foot of one the chairs. The impact caused one of my front upper teeth to break out of my mouth. The tooth snapped in half but the upper part was still attached by a piece of skin. There was quite a bit of blood coming out of that hole in my mouth.

Luckily there was a Red Cross outpost hospital close to the school and I was taken there for treatment. The bleeding was stopped and they had me lie down because I was feeling faint. The nurse telephoned a dentist in the nearest town to make an emergency appointment as well as my parents, to give them details of my accident. She also explained the treatment to take place at the dentist’s office.

The trip to the dentist took a couple of hours, over a winding mountainous road. At the dentist’s office my tooth was shoved back into my jaw and the dentist wired it into place in my mouth. The hope was that it would become a useful tooth again. However, the tooth died in a few days and I had to return to the dentist for more treatments, including a root canal filling on the dead tooth. Even with freezing this procedure hurts.

The dentist did some reconstruction to the tooth. A synthetic appliance was added to the bottom of the broken tooth which made it look and act like a normal front tooth.

It has been over thirty years since that dental work was done. The tooth is still in my mouth. It works like a normal living tooth. Sometimes it feels a little tight in my upper jaw but I have had no serious problems with it.

Michael Russell Your Independent Dental guide

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Dental Plans For Great Dental Care
By Susan Jan
People often do not pay as much attention to their dental health as they do to other illnesses, often with serious consequences. To keep dental diseases at bay and to meet the rising costs of dental treatment it is important that you choose a good dental plan. Having a dental plan should encourage you to take more preventive care of your teeth to avoid the more serious dental problems.

With medical insurance services, the cost of a particular medical treatment or health check is reimbursed directly by the insurance company to the medical service provider. With dental insurance plans, the company is responsible for reimbursing the dentist. Dental plans can however vary in type and feature. Dentists participating in discount dental plans take lower fees than those covered by regular dental plans, with discounts varying between 20% and 60%.

All dental plans charge a membership fee, with the amount varying from one plan to the other. Dental plans are offered to either individuals or to the whole family, with family dental plans usually offering bigger discounts than individual dental plans. You should compare the rates charged under the different plans before selecting the most appropriate one for you.

It is important also to know the type of dental services covered by your dental plan. Routine dental check ups and dental treatments such as oral examination, teeth cleaning, fluoride treatment, teeth filling and teeth extraction are generally covered by most dental plans. However, dental plans do not always cover major dental care treatments such as oral surgery, dental implants, restorative care, braces, root canal treatments etc. In case of such costly dental procedures you unfortunately have to foot the bill yourself. Often there are a number of alternative treatments available for certain dental problems. Under such circumstances dental plans allow reimbursement for the cost of the basic dental treatment, and further costs in excess of the basic treatment cost has to be covered by the patient.

Dental health plans may or may not allow you to choose your own dentist, but it is common practice for patients to generally receive dental care from dentists mentioned in the plan. Before choosing a plan make sure that the participating dentists practice in your area. Choose a plan that is accepted nationwide and not restricted to your state. Check whether you are allowed to visit the dentist unscheduled, or at scheduled hours only.

You also need to decide whether you want an annual plan or a monthly plan. Annual dental plans are more cost beneficial than monthly plans. So get regular check ups with your dentist to reap the maximum benefits out of your dental plan.

If you are looking for a good Dental Plan, visit Susan’s site at top-dental-care.info. Susan also enjoys writing on a wide range of topics at sports-and-recreation-hub.info.

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