Question: Where can I find a good dentist? I have no luck with dentist or dental offices.  I have dental insurance where I can see whatever dentist I want too.  However I either find that I do not care for the dentist.  Or when I do like the dentist the dental office staffing is so bad that I still do not like going to them.

What does one have to do to find a dentist without a bad attitude or with a good front office staffing?  This is becoming a big issue for me.  How do I pick a good dentist office with staffing that know how to process out claims?

Reply: Finding a good dentist/staffing starts with you doing your research. Ask yourself a few questions:

1) Are you too picky? Take a look at your yourself and and see if maybe it is not the dentist and or staffing but you.  This can be hard to do but if you are honest with yourself sometimes we can see that maybe we are just being to picky about things.

2) If you feel you are not be unreasonable: Then start with making phone calls to the different dental offices. Get a feel for the staffing by making that first call. Ask them all the general questions you may have such as hours they are open, how far booked up they are, How they process out claims and so forth. These are general questions anyone working as the staffing should be able to address in a friend manor.

3) Once you weeded it down to a few options then do a office visit. Now I do not mean make an appointment only to go and check out the places. How do you feel about being there. Are the staffing friend to the people that are also there. Is the place clean. Dose it seem like a more adult friendly place or is it mostly kids. Many adults would prefer to go to a dentist that dose not cater to kids so it is a more quite setting. You may even want to politely ask some of the people in the waiting room what they think of the dentist.

4) The inter net is a powerful tool:  Use the internet to seek out review of a dental office.  You can find reviews just by using Google, Angie List, Yelp and so on.  Ask the dental office if they have their own website that you can visit that will give you more detail information about their practice.

5) You may also want to ask your friends and family members. Finding out where they go and if they are happy with their dentist. So of the best referrals are from people you already know and trust.

6) You may also want to call your insurance company if they have a provider data base they may also be able to help you with your searcher for a provider.

In the end the more you know about a dentist/dental office the better and hopefully you will be able to find the dentist you can be happy with.