(Affordable Dental Plans)
Thank you for inquiring about the AFFDENT program. This affordable dental plan program will
allow you to help many of your patients receive the dental care they need and at the same time
increase your practice income.
As you know we live in times of layoffs, COBRA expirations and HMO plan changes. Many company’
s monthly dental premiums are continuing to go up, while at the same time the dental benefits are
continuing to go down. Many of your patients are without any dental benefit coverage and many are
unhappy with their present dental plans. Patients do not like to choose unknown doctors on limited
insurance lists of providers. These restrictions limit their freedom to choose the doctors of their
choice. Patients want to go to doctors that they trust and feel confident with.
The AFFDENT program will enable your patients and their families to receive the dentistry they
need and at the same time comfortably fit it all inside their monthly budget.
Your patients will discover that when compared with traditional dental plans, the AFFDENT program
is more patient friendly and has eliminated the costly “Middle-Man,” also known as the insurance
claims adjuster. With this plan there is no more third party intervention on the treatment they desire
to have done. This alone keeps the costs down and passes the savings onto your patients.
What does all this mean? It means there are no more insurance claims to file and your office
having to wait months for the insurance companies to respond. It means your patient receives the
dental treatment without having to wait for “special approval.” It means the dental work the patient
desires is between the doctor and the patient. There is no more “non-doctor” insurance claims
adjuster deciding what type of dentistry your patient can and can’t have done.
It means no more pre-determination forms to file to insurance companies and waiting 90 to 120
days for a response. The response is usually your pre-determination has been lost and a new one
needs to be resubmitted. It means your patient is in complete control of their own dental health
and how they want to manage it. You and your dental team are there to help the patient receive
their desired dental services.
The AFFDENT Program
This is a one-year contract patient membership discount plan. It automatically renews each year.
Think of joining a health club or golf country club. These members pay a monthly membership fee
to partake of and participate with all the various amenities. Likewise, your patients pay a monthly
membership fee in return for discounted dental services from your private dental fee schedule.
There is a singles plan, a couples plan and a family plan. A yearly benefit dollar amount maximum
is allowed for each individual within each plan. A monthly membership is automatically withdrawn
from the patient’s bank account and deposited into a central AFFDENT banking hub. Each month a
small accounting and administrative fee is taken off each contract and the bulk of the monthly
membership fee is automatically deposited back into the participating doctor’s business account.
Improve Patient Loyalty and Build a Strong Patient Base:
In today’s world, there is no such thing as patient loyalty. Most doctors have encountered the
situation where they have bent over backwards taking care of a patient and their family’s dental
needs for years only to see the same patient’s insurance changed and their loyal doctor wasn’t on
their list of in-network providers.
No matter how carefully and thorough you or your team members explain out-of-pocket network
benefits to your patients, the great majority of them will still transfer out of your office and go to an in-
network provider. From the patient’s perspective, the out-of-network doctor “doesn’t take their
insurance.” As much as the doctors want patients to see the benefits of fee-for-service and out-of-
network benefits, the stark reality is most patients will always take the path of least resistance and
stay in-network to save a buck and will quietly leave your practice.
AFFDENT Keeps Your Patients in Your Practice!
The AFFDENT program helps your patients in many ways. The biggest benefit is these patients
stay in your practice. They have no reason to leave. They end up paying you and not someone else
for dental services, they keep your hygiene schedule full and they continue to refer new patients to
your practice. Many of these new referred patients are fee-for service patients.
Other benefits of this plan allows many patients who do not have dental benefits to finally be able to
get something done and feel they are progressing with treatment. Their procrastination of decayed
teeth because of lack of dental benefits no longer has to end up with root canal therapy or
extractions.
Many patients are unhappy with their current dental plans. The AFFDENT program can be added to
their existing plan as a secondary or supplement plan.
Many patients are denied by a third party financing company because in years past they hit a
financial speed bump and have a fair to poor credit rating due to a past divorce, financial crisis, etc.
Many of these patients are trying to financially get back on track. This plan allows many of them to
get some dental work done. These patients still need to be eligible to hold a current credit card in
order to sign up for these plans. The credit card on file at AFFDENT insures the doctor gets paid if
there are insufficient funds in the patient’s bank account during the automatic monthly withdrawals.
The Best AFFDENT Patients are Senior Citizens
One of the biggest supporters of the AFFDENT program is patients who are retired. Most retired
patients no longer have dental benefits. Practically everyone who is retired will have an interest in
these plans and want to sign up.
More AFFDENT Benefits…
Patients who are members of these plans are no longer affected by external marketing methods
such as direct mail, newspaper ads or radio commercials used by other dentists in their area.
They will not leave your practice.
Another huge reason patients rave about these plans, is that there is no third-party intervention.
The treatment plan is just between the doctor and the patient.
Your front office administrators will love these plans also because there is hardly any extra work to
do, no more being stuck on hold on the phone with insurance companies, no more claim forms to
file and no more predeterminations to deal with. Your staff will receive a bonus for signing patients
up with these plans.
The AFFDENT plans allow your patients to pay a monthly membership fee for a total of twelve
months for discounts on basic dental services. These benefits provide coverage that can be
budgeted at an affordable monthly expense while at the same time receiving discounts from your
private dental fees.
Your office will administer the plans directly to your patients. There is no need for your patients to
contact a third party company for information. All questions regarding AFFDENT plans can be
answered by your office administrators.
AFFDENT Plan Specifics
There are three plans to choose from: a singles plan, a couples plan and a family plan. The
monthly membership fees are as follows:
Singles Plan: $41/month
Couples Plan: $61/month
Family Plan: $81/month
The yearly maximum benefit is a total of $1,250 for each individual within each plan. Example: With
a couples plan, each person will have a yearly $1,250 benefit maximum. With a family of four, each
individual will have a yearly $1,250 benefit maximum.
AFFDENT Type I Dental Services
The patient has no out-of-pocket expenses for Type I dental services. The AFFDENT program
allows 100% discount for all consultations, complete exams, periodic exams, all types of
radiographs, sealants, child fluoride treatments and up to two basic prophylaxis per year. All Type I
services are applied towards the patient’s $1,250 yearly maximum benefit. Meaning, any fee the
patient does not pay out of pocket, is deducted from the $1,250 yearly maximum.
AFFDENT Type II Dental Services
Type II dental procedures include: any type of composite or amalgam fillings, simple extractions,
periodontal SRP therapy, periodontal gross debridement therapy, basic root canal therapy, direct
pulp caps, post and core buildups, soft tissue crown lengthening, any type of PFM crowns and PFM
bridges, any type of inlays or onlays, dentures, partials, any type of denture or partial repair, any type
of soft or hard denture relines and all types of transitional partial dentures.
There will be a 50% out-of-pocket fee due the day of service. The 50% discounted portion is
applied towards the patient’s $1,250 yearly maximum benefit. Any treatment plan that exceeds the
$1,250 yearly maximum benefit including all the applied Type I services, is the patient’s
responsibility to pay 100% of the doctor’s private fees.
With any treatment exceeding the yearly maximum benefit, the patient may choose one of your
current payment options offered to your fee-for-service patients such as cash, check, credit card or
one of the many types of third party outside financing companies.
The AFFDENT program goes into great detail on all the exemptions and limitations of many other
types of dental services. It also clearly explains the staff incentive bonus program, the patient
application process, signing up dental specialists, internal and external marketing, frequently
asked questions, legal reviews, automatic banking, life-time coaching and consulting and ways to
generate passive monthly income through the AFFDENT program.
What’s In It for Me, the Doctor?
If you want to help many of your patients who do not have dental benefits receive basic dental care,
keep these patients in your practice, keep them in your referral base and have them refer fee-for-
service patients to you, keep your hygiene schedule full and at the same time, personally earn a
monthly residual income, then the AFFDENT program is for you. You will be assigned a personal
representative who will be available to help you and your staff get started and to answer any
questions you may have.
The AFFDENT Program Starter Kit
Upon registration, you will receive a starter kit that will include:
· A Standard Operational Procedures Office Manual and Marketing Strategies.
· Master Copies of Patient Membership Forms and Dental Specialists Participation Forms.
· 100 AFFDENT patient brochures and a desk display acrylic brochure holder.
· An AFFDENT accountant will set up all automatic banking transactions with your participating
patients and your dental office.
· Contact information for your assigned AFFDENT representative who will provide you with life-
time consulting in marketing and maintaining this program on your office website, with your existing
patient base, with local small businesses and surrounding neighborhood demographics.
The AFFDENT dental program starter kit with all the above listed benefits is $297.
Please complete the enclosed Doctor Registration Form and mail or fax it back to our main office
and we will help you get this program up and running within 7 to 10 days.
Our Iron Clad, No Questions Asked, Better Than Risk-Free Guarantee to You
If after purchasing the AFFDENT program for your office and after being set up by our accountant
with the automatic banking systems, you feel this program is not for you, then please box everything
up, send the starter kit and brochures back to our main office and we will refund you the $297; No
Questions Asked!
If you have any specific questions that need to be answered, please feel free to e-mail us at:
info@AFFDENT.com or refer to our website at: www.AFFDENT.com.
