Title: How to Maximize Dental Plan Benefits at a Lower Cost to You. Word Count: 520 Summary: The author emphasis the importance of consumers doing their own research when choosing health and dental benefit plans for themselves. Highlights that the best dental plan health strategy creates maximum benefits at the lowest cost with the maximum annual savings. He also outlines three steps for the consumer to follow when doing their research into health and dental benefit plans Keywords: dental, dental plans, dental care, dental benefits, dental specialist, ameriplan dental, dental insurance Article Body: The best dental plan health strategy creates maximum benefits at the lowest cost with the maximum annual savings. Affording dental care has become a major problem all over the world, as the costs of visiting the dentist have risen dramatically over the past few years. After all, nearly seventy percent of Americans do not have any dental care coverage due to the high cost of traditional dental insurance. Dental care has always been a necessity for every person. Although, most of us never really think about dental care until we go for our check-ups, or when we have some trouble with our teeth. Maintaining a healthy smile by visiting a dentist on a regular basis is the best way to ward off more complicated and painful situations in the future. Unfortunately, finding affordable dental insurance can be challenging with the high cost of dental care insurance. Most people have a difficult time paying for health insurance let alone dental insurance. It is as if dental insurance is an after thought in peoples minds. Lucky for us there is an alternative to high priced dental insurance. <center> And who exactly am I, anyway? Hello, My Name is Leo Hanes.</center> I am a pretty basic and straight forward individual - I work hard and want the best for my family and myself. Like most people I am very concerned with the seemingly ever increasing costs of health care benefits and I am looking for ways to deal with them in the most effective ways possible. I "retired" early from my career after 35 years in the telecommunications industry as a Telecom Director in 2002, to travel and live in my motor home as a fulltime RVer. I found myself in a situation that I had to buy my own healthcare insurance and dental plans at a greatly increased personal expense. During my career, I learned much from the "de-regulation" of the telecommunications industry, particularly how it was "supposed" to reduce costs for the end-user or consumer. Specifically I learned that "unbundling" product offerings into services that I actually needed always proved to be more cost effective, than accepting what the industry experts had packaged together to market to us. With this in mind I have spent the past 4 years researching the healthcare and dental benefits industry, trying to find solutions that benefit the consumer most. I have learned that using traditional professionals as a source of information and benefit protection is not always the best solution and that in fact we are often overly dependent upon them, rather than doing our own research. It is clear that we have to be informed and prepared to deal with these matters ourselves. First.... Learn how different types of dental plans can help you and your family reduce your personal costs.... Second…. Learn how understanding the lingo can help you make an informed decision Third ….Discover how to avoid the most common mistakes about dental plans, dental providers, dental procedures, and dental discount plans when choosing health and dental benefit plans. We have done all the hard learning for you, do your own research for yourself now.