Were You Told You Need a Lot of Dental Work?

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Needing extensive dental work can be very overwhelming. Usually it is due to lack of dental care over a long period of time. The other reason may be signs and/or symptoms that make your dentist aware of new and potential problems.

Treatment should be prioritized in the following way:

  1. Emergencies/pain
  2. Bone and gum health
  3. Decay
  4. Bite stability
  5. Final restorations and/or optional work.

First, you can budget what your portion would be by phasing your care in such a way that is financially manageable. This could mean that your treatment takes more time.  Secondly, you can utilize dental credit companies that have interest free loans. This would allow you to get all the work done immediately and spread your payments over a long period of time. Dental insurance will help in either scenario, but when extensive work needs to be done you may not have the time to wait for your benefits to renew each year because the problems can get worse. 

It is important to go to your dentist regularly and catch things early; it will save you both time and money.

About the author

Stacey Sparkman Hall, D.D.S.

Dr. Stacey Hall brings her unique outlook on dental care and her personable optimism to the Williamsburg Center for Dental Health. With nine years of solid dental expertise as a dentist in Williamsburg, she decided in early 2011 to branch out and open her own local practice. After completing her undergraduate degree from Virginia Tech in 1998, Dr. Hall graduated from VCU’s MCV School of Dentistry in 2002, receiving her D.D.S. She is a member of the Academy of General Dentistry, the American Dental Association, and was awarded member fellowship to the International Congress of Oral Implantology in 2008. She leads the elite Tidewater Dawson Study Club and is a scholar with the interntaionally renowned Dawson Academy. As a Dawson ambassador, Dr. Hall also assists in the training of students in the Dawson Academy. Stacey and her husband Michael have been blessed with three beautiful girls, Lanie, Gracie and Abbie. She is a loyal Virginia Tech Football fan, and enjoys Bible study and missions work.