Dental care for kids, I Need a New Dentist for My Son.

I have an HMO dental plan currently. Both my husband and I go to this one dental office in our dental plan. My son is two, so it is a good time to make a dental appointment. I just learned that our dental office does not help two years old.

He will not see my son until he is five. That is too long to have him wait. I do not dislike that office, so I want to have the same providers. Can my son have his dentist, and we keep seeing the one we want to?

Reply: You should be able to call your HMO insurance plan member services and have they refer you to a plan Pediatric dentist. Most dental HMOs will let you have a different dentist as long as they are plan providers. Take to member services to confirm this.