I wasted six months of my life trying to deal with Scan Insurance and DentaQuest trying to get dental help this year. But, believe it or not, I’m actually glad I had this experience. I’m not going to bellyache about how bad the insurance and the dental industry are in New Mexico right now. The system is simply broken and is not worth dealing with. Even dentists that I’d done business with in years past have proven to be massive disappointments. I will NEVER again speak well of them or give them business.
But, that said, I am really glad that I had to go through all that grief and pain. Because, you see, it forced me to dig deep into New Mexico’s dental offerings. And in the process I found a hidden solution that has proven to be the gold standard of dentistry right here in the City of Albuquerque.
If you have dental problems, whether it be cavities or peridontal disease, check out Touro College of Dental Medicine, 2425 Ridgecrest Dr. SE, Albuquerque, 87108. It is “New Mexico’s first pre-doctoral dental school clinical training facility”. The School offers everything from preventative to oral surgury, peridontal treatment and implants. It does work with some Medicare and insurance programs which you might want to check into. Although I couldn’t take advantage of that help, I paid for the services out of pocket and was really surprised at how cost effective the services offered are.
My team, Rex (Jiacheng Rex Jin) and Vanessa (Vanessa Hardy), took me under their wings, they used state of the art equipment and took their time analyzing the work that I needed to have done. They worked together, under the supervision of outstanding instructors, and, honestly, I’ve never had any dentist, in the 80 years of my life, who was more thorough or gentle in completing the needed work.
Rex and Vanessa are outstanding professionals. Even more, they have demonstrated a unique quality of caring on a personal level that I haven’t seen in Albuquerque in a very long time.
Times may be less that ideal and the medical/dental services available today are not the best but Albuquerque does enjoy the best of the best. You just have to look deep to find them. But I’m here to tell you that you will be very happy you checked Touro and its staff out.
