You don't take my insurance?

 Our office does take a number of different plans. I personally am a Delta Premier Provider and a Cigna Provider. My son David has joined Metlife Dental Insurance. That being said our office a fee for service dental practice that participates with a few dental insurance plans. We have plenty of patients that have plans that we are out of network for, but we bill their dental insurance and then bill them the for what is not covered.

We treat all our patients the same way regardless of which insurance they have. Appointments are usually scheduled for one hour (or two for crown preparations) . This amount of time makes it possible for us to have  sufficient time to ensure a uniform high standard of care. 

Since dental offices need to cover their expenses and make a profit to pay their dentist/owner, some offices have procedures engineered to be done in shorter amounts of time. By this I mean, they try to figure out techniques that are more efficient but hopefully still allow them to produce an adequate standard of care. Some offices succeed and some do not.

When I first got out of my residency in 1981 I worked in a number of "Insurance offices" and while it was good for me to help develop  dental skills and become efficient, I really didn't enjoy playing "beat the clock" ( I am really dating myself with this reference). Now , most days I truly enjoy working at  a more leisurely pace and the dental procedures I perform routinely turn out well with results that are durable and don't cause problems.