Understanding your dental insurance is the key to maximizing the benefits that it offers you. Unfortunately, for many, dental insurance can be confusing. And to make matters worse, every insurance carrier follows different rules and provides varying levels of care.

Dental insurance plans are a negotiated contract between you or your employer and an insurance company. They range from full reimbursed coverage of any care level you chose and complete freedom of care provider choice to no provider choice and discouragement of any care. If you want to be able to choose your dentist and the quality of care you receive you'll want to be very careful about which insurance plan you choose.

There are several categories of dental insurance to choose from.

(Click on a category above to determine if it is right for you)