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I am interested to know if there is any difference in oral hygiene habits and efficacy between insurance and non-insurance patients. Does anyone know of a thread or study discussing this. If not, would you Townies be interested in participating in designing study and surveying/scoring and reporting
December 13, 2018
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in the NIH 'All of Us' research program, the researcher connects the dots between income, insurance, housing, mental/emotional health, and whether people get dental care. People aged 18-35 stood out: about one in three in this group did not see a dentist in the past year. This age group also
September 18, 2025
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and that insurance companies are neccessary to make sure that the public doesn't get Ripped Off by the unethical, greedy, rich, dental profession. Just because you weren't a practicing dentist at the time does not mean that you are not affected by mass media libelous propaganda. Managed care in the form of PPO's
March 08, 2016
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frequently selected, as were system-level issues like poor communication, inexperienced staff, lack of diagnostic resources, and insurance barriers. Situational pressures also played a major role. Excessive workload, unrealistic patient volume expectations, fatigue, and overconfidence in diagnostic ability
January 08, 2026
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by this method I think I will periodically go over guidelines to make sure we are all knowledgeable about them I'd like to hear what others do Thank you! I do Insurance Based Dentistry (IBD-sorry Bill O'Neill) in my...
May 06, 2015
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which is the3rdleast populated statewith dentists).In MA, even with Medicaid insurance, most of patients can anappoint on thesame day. I know some offices are even giving away free sonicare electric toothbrushto get new Medicaid patients. There are so many jobless hygienists here too. No way
April 23, 2016
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, oral hygiene reinforcement, dietary evaluation, and on top of that make recommendations. In medicine this would all be unbundled and reimbursed. We are paid to do surgical intervention, if insurance started paying for a bacterial load test, dietary counseling, ph test, and also covered products
August 25, 2019
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studies and comparing the generalizability of a trial population with the real-world population. RWE comes from analysis of data from sources like electronic health records, patient-reported outcome measures, insurance claims, medical devices and mobile devices. Under the 21stCentury Cures Act of 2016, the Food and Drug Administration hasresearch into RWE and how it can support regulatory decision making.
October 12, 2019
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from Pillar VC, Zetta Venture Partners, and angel investors. VideaHealth works with leading DSOs and insurance providers nationwide and has been featured in TechCrunch, The Wall Street Journal, among many other media outlets. VideaHealth: Videre comes from to see in Latin. So better computer vision
November 07, 2020
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insurance driven, some of its ignorance, and some of it is well intentioned. My buddy is a rep for a company that sells DNA testing to Dr's. They test your DNA and cross it with your meds to find out which meds you are on that aren't helping you at all. Apparently your DNA can dictate which meds
January 10, 2014
Evidence Based Dentistry
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religious healer came through my home town (Aberdeen, Washington). He claimed to heal teeth. He passed the collection plate, then did his healing. He said the teeth would take a few days to heal (after he had left town!).does insurance pay for those miraculous/spontaneous...You had a 2 year-old patient
September 14, 2018
Evidence Based Dentistry
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catch on. And many admit they only had a 5 minute polish and floss yet the office billed for SRP, usually writing off the pt copay and deductible. If proved to be true by x-ray then that would indeed be abhorrent and legally liable either at dental board level or court of law. Wow. Don't insurance
April 20, 2024
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. Either way it offers real data on how long things are taking and can help everyone see if there are ways to be more efficient. Hope this helps - Good luck! Great article here and makes perfect sense! Thanks for posting. sadly, insurance reimbursement rates are not encouraging more time spent
June 13, 2019
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for teeth. Limit your soda drinking this summer – even diet! Drink water or unsweetened tea instead! Ban soda and junk food from SNAP. Don'tfix cavities for free without accountability andannual limits as placed on by private insurance. Maybe that'd stop?Sure prohibition works
August 01, 2015
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of care. Just because some believe it does not make it so. The problem with much of this is as you posted, standardizing people will always find exceptions. That has not stopped private equity and insurance from trying to do so, and the federal government very recently. But I think it is dangerous
March 15, 2014
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absolutely made a difference in that many of the people in the office were self selected as willing to pay more than their insurance covered (or paid cash). At this age (although we do have some older students), the students are at such vaying levels of maturity. A fair number are married and have
June 07, 2023
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effectively treat. Sometimes we have to accept we can't effective treat given the patient's requirements. Very short list of contradistions. Do everything I need but don't exceed the insurance coverage. Keep me comfortable but no needles. Do full treatment, I'll pay in advance I'm moving out of town
November 29, 2005
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) and then say composites' average success rate = 7 years and add that we're x confident that this number reflects the larger population. ok great. this information is very useful if I were an insurance company and wondering how often should I cover the replacement of composites. but if a patient
June 26, 2019
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