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       Senate bill to expand Medicare dental benefits
       By: agate Date: June 5, 2024, 1:30 am
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       Every time I am at the dentist's, as I was today, I'm reminded
       of what it was like to be unable to afford dental care and too
       busy to get to a dentist.  I'd had twinges of pain in a tooth
       but they always went away. I ignored them for a year but finally
       got to a dentist. I was in for the worst root canal experience
       I've ever had because an abscess had got going. The endodontist
       said it would have been good if I'd come in a year before.
       I was advised to get a crown on the tooth after the root canal,
       which involved two uncomfortable sessions. Eventually I got the
       crown but it may have been too late. Later I lost that tooth.
       I'm very lucky now because I no longer pay dental insurance
       premiums. The Medicare Advantage plan offers some dental
       coverage, and that is helpful--though, as the article below
       points out, it is limited.
       From Just Care, an article by Diane Archer (May 29,
       2024)--"Dental crisis in the US: 20% of Americans have lost
       their teeth":
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