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Dental patients should be aware of some discount dental deals available. Lawyers and public health experts want people to make sure the deals are legitimate and the dental care is up to par.
The reason this issue came up is because there are some companies that are flooding inboxes with offers such as these. There have even been cases in which a company offers about 90 percent off services such as cleaning treatments and examinations. Groupon, among others, is pinpointing consumers’ inboxes.
Since many people no longer have insurance and some dental care costs are rising, it’s the perfect opportunity for people to seek creative ways to receive dental treatment. The problem is that the deals and treatment being offered aren’t necessarily offering the highest standards of care.
According to the laws of some states, it’s not legal for dentists and doctors to divide fees with a third-party company. This means companies are likely offering these deals on their own in most cases.
As of now, dentists would be sanctioned in some way if they create some kind of deal with an Internet discount company.
It’s plausible that sanctions could be altered in the future to create some method in which the companies and dentists to legally deal with each other.
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