Trying to maintain regularly dental checkups at an affordable cost?  If so, think about buying dental insurance.  The fact is most dental insurance plans provide preventive dental services at no cost to you.  Dental insurance companies know one way to avoid having to pay out larger dental claims, is by providing preventive dental care at either a very low cost or at no charge to their insureds.   The hope is, that people who have dental insurance are seeing their dentist regularly for their preventive dental care needs, thus reducing the risk of having to have larger dental needs in the future.

However, if larger dental services are needed, the dental insurance plan will still help to make larger dental care needs more affordable.    Benjamin Franklin once said “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” This saying holds true with preventive dental care.  Seeing your dentist for your regular dental checkups is much better then having to go to the dentist for a root canal.