I hate Dentist, because I have to pay expensive, make time for the long procedure and when I leave the dental office I will have sore in my mouth,  but I need Dentist ……

For the person who was born in the small village in the third country like me dentist was not really necessary and not really the popular issue.  Since I was a kid, I never visit dentist regularly like the children in the USA.  I was born and grew up in Indonesia.  In my family and I believe almost all of the people in my village just visited dentist when we had toothachee. 

I still remember when I was about 7 years old and I had a toothache, my father took me to the traditional healer.  The way he  healing my toothache was funny and it wasn’t made sense for me but that was the only thing we can do.  I didn’t know what was the consideration that time, probably It was hard and expensive to find a dentist and beside that the parent didn’t had awareness about how the importance of oral health. 

When I was kid,  my parent just teach me to brush my teeth every day when I just wake up and before go to bed.  That’s not too bad but that’s also not enough. The ideal one is beside developing good habits at an early age, Kid also need scheduling regular dental visits to helps children get a good start on a lifetime of healthy teeth and gums.

My first visited to dentist was because I had a hole in my left bum,  so I need to fill it up, it was in Surabaya about 7 years ago.  Even I am a bachelor degree in business Administration, in that time I didn’t even know that there are a lot of kind of specialty dentist, I  just knew dentist or General Dentists (provide a full range of services for the entire family)  I never knew about Endodontists (specialize in diseases of the tooth, performing such services as root canals); Oral Surgeons (remove teeth and repair fractures of the jaw and other damage to the jaw); Orthodontists (correct misaligned teeth through braces); Pediatric Dentists (generally limit their practices to children and teenagers); Periodontists (treat diseases of the gums) and Prosthodontists (specialize in replacing missing natural teeth with bridges and dentures).  And I didn’t even realize how important is oral health.

Now after 33 years old I realize that my teeth wasn’t Strong enough,  I started had a lot of hole in my teeth because of my bad habit to eat a hot food and drink a cool beverage in the same time beside that in my childhood was not build a Strong foundations for the healthy teeth and gums.

Now after I realized how important to have oral health,  I have to pay very expensive for all of those treatment. I have Anthem for the health insurance but I don’t have dental plan insurance I just had a discount prescription plan from comfort dental.  Since my firs treatment I already spent about US $ 3.900.  That’s a lot of money for me but that the cheapest one I can get.   I use General Dentist to minimized the Expenses.  If I use the specialty Dentist I will spent much more that that,  Just to remove my bad teeth by the oral surgeons I will spent about US $ 1,500 and I spent about US $160 by the General Dentists, and what about if I use Prosthodontists for the bridges that I need,  I can’t imagine how much I had to pay and I spent about US $ 2,900 for the bridges by the general dentists, and it’s take about 6 weeks. For the root cannals I had to go to the Endodontists in Comfort Dental Denver, I spent US $ 800 with my gold member, I saved about US $ 400 because I supposed to pay about US $ 1,200 per tooth in One of the Colorado Springs dental office.

We knew that dentist very expensive especially in the US, but I am glad I had comfort dental discount plan.  The Comfort Dental Office at North Academy, 1634 York Rd has a good services the dentist and assistant very friendly and professional. Dr. Steven W. Carter is the senior dentist in there and he did a very good job, I am one of his patient.  I am happy with the result, now my teeth look pretty that make me always smile and the most important thing is I have a good oral health.  Thank you very much Dentist.

Tips for the Parent who wish the kids to have a good oral health:

http://www.toothclub.gov.hk/en/en_pdf/en_B029.pdf