[boring-alterego]

Maybe with this we can combine teeth into normal insurance.

[vkou]

Dental insurance isn't actually insurance.

In insurance, you win, and are made whole when you are unlucky enough to suffer from a low-frequency, high-cost event.

With dental 'insurance', you always pay partially out of pocket, and as soon as you hit a (rather small) cap, you pay the rest entirely out of pocket.

It's not an insurance, it's a limited-access subscription service.

[dham]

I was just talking about this a few months ago. In my opinion, single-payer dental insurance should be provided before health insurance. If a country has single payer but provides no dental insurance, it's a waste, as a lot of issues start in the mouth. We're at the forefront of a lot of this right now (as well as gut health).

[callalex]

I have taken to calling them luxury bones. For some reason that seems to bother people around me.

[Loughla]

Honestly it's more likely that we'll pay higher premiums if we didn't have separate dental insurance.

[autoexec]

Or if data brokers sell your shopping history to your insurance company and it shows you aren't buying floss regularly