A People-Oriented Dental Practice SF
July 2004
I am a Cal student and need to have dental work done, but I
have no dental insurance.
Please recommend a caring, excellent, reasonable dentist.
Are you sure you don't have dental insurance? If you have SHIP
(the UC Berkeley student health insurance plan, which is
automatic unless you opt out), you already have reasonably good
dental coverage. See
http://www.uhs.berkeley.edu/students/insurance/dentalannouncement.shtml
If you did opt out of SHIP, the above web page suggests an
alternate insurance plan, but it doesn't seem like an especially
good deal to me.
David
If you are a Cal student and have the mandatory health insurance
SHIP, you have automatic dental insurance that is quite good.
If you have submitted a waiver with proof of other insurance,
then you must find your own dental solutions. If you have not
done this, then you definitely have dental insurance that is
current for whatever semester you have registered for (I
actually think that the plan is good for a year, but I'm not
positive). Call the Tang Center if you are not sure and have
them check for you. I have SHIP and use the dental plan through
it. It covers most if not all of the usual dental concerns
(cleanings, xrays, wisdom teeth, fillings, etc). Good luck!
Freyja
I would highly recommend looking into dental schools. I had some
potentially very expensive work done at a dental school (this
was in Portland) almost 10 years ago...I'm missing some front
teeth that just never came in. The dental school was 1/3 the
cost, and I had students doing the work under the supervision of
their professors. They did a great job! Even my regular dentist
(now that I have insurance) was impressed with the work.
ed
April 2004
About a year ago my wisdom teeth started coming in, and have since really started
to give me quite a bit of pain. Also, recently my gums started bleeding when I was
brushing my teeth, which I do twice a day as well as flossing once. I am a student
and I don't have dental insurance. Are there any resources that I can look into for
low cost dental care? I am getting really worried.
Lifelong Dental Care can probably help you. Lifelong offers a
wide variety of of dental services and the dentists are truly
wonderful. They offer services at sliding fee which is based on
income. If you have little income as a student you would
probably qualify for some discount. Also, Medi-Cal covers many
''kids'' so if you under a certain age, 18?, you may be eligible
for pretty decent dental coverage that way. Call their member
services number is 704-6000 or 6010 (I am not sure which), these
guys can help you figure out if you are eligible for benefits.
They also have medical clinics, btw.
A Lifelong Employee
UOP and UCSF both have dental clinics that are low cost. You have student
dentists working on you, but they are closely supervised by professors.
Likely the students are better at UCSF, but pretty good at UOP too.
Strangely enough, as I just did a websearch, I found this:
Free Dental Screening Date: Tuesday, April 27th, 2004 from 5:30-7:30pm
Free Dental Screening Site: UCSF Dental clinic, 2nd Floor
(707 Parnassus, cross street is 4th Avenue.)
UOP Dental CLinic
http://www.dental.uop.edu/
Clinica La Raza also has a dental component. Check here:
http://www.laclinica.org/services_dental.html
May 2000
RE: low-cost dentist
Try the UCSF School of Dentistry: 415-476-3276
They apparently do very good work.
Peggy
Home |
Reviews |
Advice |
Members |
Post a Message
Join BPN |
Help |
What's New |
Search |
Contact Us
Last updated: Sep 3, 2007
Copyright © 1996-2008 Berkeley Parents Network
The opinions and statements expressed on this website
are those of parents who subscribe to the
Berkeley Parents Network. Please see
Disclaimer & Usage for
information about using content on this website.