I’ve been with the same Dental Insurance Company from the time I first graduated until now – well, technically I’m still with the same one! Insurance has never really been a big issue for me considering that I don’t work a full time load… I don’t even think I work a part time load!! =P But OHCWA (Oral Health Centre of WA) taught us that it’s better to be safe than sorry: “Cover your ass!”, and now that Australia is following the American trend of suing anyone worth suing, insurance isn’t such a bad idea.

Now in case anyone gets confused, the type of insurance I’m talking about isn’t health insurance, it’s my work insurance to cover my ass. I pay to be covered legally for any dental work I do on patients just in case they aren’t happy with it or they just feel like suing me. Although the chances of me getting sued is close to none since my working hours borderline zilch at the moment, and my patients all love me! (Well, I like to think they all do…)

The only reason I’ve even thought about dental insurance is because every year I get a letter telling me I need to pay up =( Other than that, I don’t have any contact with them at all! But this year the provider split or something, MDA is now working with Dental Protection and MIPS is on its own …I think… Regardless, I had to choose between the two and because I wasn’t too sure who to go with, I asked around a bit. 

Turns out that they agree with me, the chances of me needing any legal attention is pathetically low so I should just go with the Dental Insurance Company who charges less. And so I did =) But I didn’t chose them only because they charge less, it was also because they spelt my name correctly =) Nothing irks me more than my name being spelt incorrectly when they previously spelt it correctly!