Marin Dental Media Oscar Marin

If you are set on having dental insurance or if you are given a choice by your employer, definitely, PPO plans will give you the best coverage for your money. Now, there are no dental plans that will cover 100% of your bill, Dental Insurance was developed to help you with the expense but not to pay for the full cost of the treatment.
Within each type of insurance, there are many different plans. Most people will decide based on what is offered through their employer

So if for example you have minor dental needs, then any Basic insurance or even a discount plan will work. Now, surprisingly, In many cases you may be better off with no insurance because when you add up what you pay for yearly premiums, deductibles and copayments for the services that you need, you realize that you could have paid less as a private patient with no insurance. So no insurance is also an option and most offices will have incentives and no-interest payment plans to make dental care affordable to patients that don’t have any insurance.

Let’s face it, when it comes to bacteria we’re outnumbered, as a matter of fact, some research estimates that there could be up to 10 bugs per each human cell in our bodies. Learn this and other facts about the bugs that live on our body.

In this episode I will be giving you information about toothpaste that is not usually available to consumers. What are the ingredients on toothpaste? and How they could be affecting your dental health negatively.

In this episode I will be discussing some alternative ways to handle pain and swelling that have some value as a temporary measure and should be used with discretion and with the understanding that all these emergencies should be checked by a dentist once the lock down measures are lifted.

The outbreak of COVID-19 is a global health situation without precedent and as bad as things seem to be getting, there is always something to be learned from experiences like this that hopefully leave us better prepared to react in a wise manner in similar future situations.

This episode is about going from health indifferent to health conscious, how come we have people that care a lot about their health and others that are completely indifferent to whatever happens to it, and we provide a strategic approach to becoming more health conscious.