Dental care for seniors, and getting a good dental insurance plan.  I am hoping you can help me out.  My dad is 68 and  need to get a set of new dentures.  He lives in Maryland and is on a shoe string budget.   I am trying to help him out since his current dentures are really old and ill fitting.   I called around to a few dental office but they do not offer any discounted saving for seniors nor even a cash credit.    I here hoping you may have a dental plan that he can get that will help me with the cost of new dentures.

Dental Insurance for New or Replacement Dentures. There are plenty of dental insurance plans that will cover dentures, but you need to plan ahead. Many but not all dental insurance plans have waiting periods from 6-18 months. As an example: Replacing teeth with dentures is classified as major dental services. The average benefit is 50% co-insurance for your dentures. Make note when you are replacing dentures the dental company may required proof that you had the prior dentures for X amount of years before providing coverages for new dentures make sure you read the plan terms and conditions on this.

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Massachusetts Dental Discount plans, New dentures needed:  My mom lives in Massachusetts and she had dentures top and bottom for the last two years.  She is 75 on  a fixed income. 

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My dad needs to have a new set of dentures.  His is about seven or more years old and they are ill fitting.  He does not like wearing them and will only do so to eat.  He drop his dental insurance plan when he got top and bottom dentures not thinking he may need to have new ones.  What can he get now to help him out with the cost of new dentures?

I need to have dental dentures top and bottom.  Which means I will need to have a few really bad teeth pulled.  Right now I do not have dental insurance and a few dental insurance companies that I called told me they would not cover for my dentures for a year or more some even told me they would not cover them at all since I currently have missing teeth.

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Right now I have more then half  of my teeth but truefully the teeth I do have are in really bad shape.   I talked to a dentist that was willing to give me a free consult and I was advise to pull out all but four teeth and to get dentures.

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I currently missing four back teeth on the botom right side of my mouth.  I had them pulled about a year ago since pulling teeth is all I had coverage for and the teeth were pretty bad.  I could not affod to get partials at the time so I have been without.

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DENTAL INSURANCE FOR DENTURES- HELP AND INFORMATION

Dental Insurance – Dentures

There are plenty of dental insurance plans that will cover dentures, but you need to plan ahead. Many but not all dental insurance plans have waiting periods from 6-18 months.

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There are plenty of dental insurance plans that will cover dentures, but you need to plan ahead. Many but not all dental insurance plans have waiting periods from 6-18 months.

As an example: Replacing teeth with dentures is classified as major dental services. The average benefit is 50% co-insurance for your dentures. Dentures are covered by some dental discounts dental plans. Remember discount dental plans are not insurance dental plan.

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My husband needs to have all the remaining teeth he has pulled out so that he can get a complete set of dentures uppers and lowers.  This teeth have always been in bad shape since he was a child do to his diabetes.   He has dental insurance though work but it is not the greatest.  Our out of pocket cost is still around $3700.00.

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Dental Insurance – Dentures

There are plenty of dental insurance plans that will cover dentures, but you need to plan ahead. Many but not all dental insurance plans have waiting periods from 6-18 months.

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I got dentures about three years ago.   Since then I have changed jobs and did not get dental insurance since I have top and bottom dentures.   I never really gave much thought about having to have the repaired.   Now my top dentures should be relined and my bottom dentures do not seem to fit like they use too.  Getting them repaired without dental insurance is costly to me.   If I get dental insurance now will they pay for them to be relined and repaired.  Or can I just get new dentures?

Need of dental work

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Getting top and bottom dentures

The dentist says they will look just like regular teeth and that people will not be able to teeth unless I say something.  I and very happy about that because my teeth well have been bad for many years.  I was just wondering how do you keep them clean do you brush them like normal teeth?  Or do you on use denture cleaner in a cup and keep them in that over night?

New teeth how to eat

I will be having my teeth removed in order to get top and bottom dentures.  I wondering about how long will I have pain.  what do can I eat.  Should I get a food processor, blender or juicer?  When can I start eating real food with my dentures?  Any thoughts or information would be good.  This is all new to me.

Can’t feel my mouth

Okay, so I just had a tooth removed at the dentist to day and they numbed up my whole mouth.  The thing is I did not eat before I went to the dentist because I did not want to get sick.  Now I am back home and I am so hungry.  

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Dental hygiene question

In one of my classes at school,  my teacher is having everyone write about person hygiene and why it is important.  It makes me wonder if she thinks she has students that stink or something.  Anyway,  I got stuck with dental health.

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I just got top dentures about three weeks ago,  and now they do not seem to me as if they fit right.  Is this normal ?  Will I have to have them ship out to be adjusted or can they fix it at the dentist office?  I am hoping they can just fix them at the dental office because I would hate to have to go without teeth for who know how long.  Anyone have this problem. This is all new to me.

Dentures are made of acrylic and cannot be reheated in any way to try to reshape them.  If you try to do that you will ruin them.  A dentist will be able to correct your dentures so please do not boil  or cook them.

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Will my dentist and I be able to choose the specialist?

Some plans limit referrals to specialists. Your dentist may be required to refer you to a limited selection of specialists who have contracted with the plan’s third party. You also may be required to get permission from the plan administrator before being referred to a specialist. If you choose a plan with these limitations, make sure qualified specialists are available in your area. Look for a plan with a broad selection of different types of specialists.