Tips on shopping out dental insurance and or a dental plan when you already have a dentist you want to stay with.  It can get a little over whelming to shop out dental insurance when you are trying to stay with a dentist.  Many people will get online to find a dental insurance plan,  before even knowing what plans their dentist accepts. Knowing ahead of time what type of dental plans your dental office accepts, will save you time in searching and reviewing dental plans they are not acceptable.

Ask your dental office if they are in network of any dental HMO or dental discount plans.  Since these type of dental plan have not outside net work options.  Therefore if they are not a provider of these types of plans getting one will not work for you.  If they are then find out what plans so you are saving time by just looking  for and reviewing the acceptable plan options. If our dentist is not a provider of any HMO or dental discount plans then your next option would be by getting a Dental PPO plan or a Dental Indemnity insurance plan.  These plans either have no net work of providers or they do allow you to go out side their provider data base.

On these types of plans it is still help to know if your dentist is a provider of a dental PPO plan because inside network coverages can be better then outside net work coverages and know this can be a helpful factor when reviewing dental PPO and Indemnity plans.