Everyone needs to have regular dental checkups and this becomes even more important for seniors.<\/p>\n
Please read the following excellent article\u00a0\u00a0By Adina Wingate For the Arizona Daily Star:<\/p>\n
Dental care ranks as a top concern for seniors<\/a><\/p>\n Every senior needs to think about how they will pay for dental care. For example, according to Wingate’s article:<\/p>\n “Payment for dental services is generally out-of-pocket for older people. Medicare does not cover routine dental services like cleaning, oral exams or X-rays.<\/p>\n Medicare coverage applies in very limited situations. Many Medicare Advantage plans offer supplemental dental coverage. The levels of coverage vary from routine care, like cleaning, X-rays and oral exam to a more comprehensive dental package.”<\/p>\n Check out the information<\/a> page on Pliny Lives for more information on dental care for seniors<\/a>.<\/p>\n \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Everyone needs to have regular dental checkups and this becomes even more important for seniors. Please read the following excellent article\u00a0\u00a0By Adina Wingate For the Arizona Daily Star: Dental care ranks as a top concern for seniors Every senior needs to think about how they will pay for dental care. For example, according to Wingate’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[174,10,6],"tags":[319,21],"class_list":["post-1135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-dental-care","category-health","category-information","tag-dental-care","tag-seniors","czr-hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/plinylives.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/plinylives.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/plinylives.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plinylives.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plinylives.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1135"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/plinylives.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1141,"href":"https:\/\/plinylives.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1135\/revisions\/1141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/plinylives.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plinylives.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plinylives.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}