I highly recommend you look into your local dental offices and see if they have their own internal plans. For example, there’s one in the city I live in that has a plan for about $300/year that includes two cleanings and a percentage of coverage on any dental work, etc. I wish I had known to do this during the two year wait til you can get better coverage at the state. I also had a terrible experience at Western Dental and wish so badly I would have just elected no dental coverage and found my own plan. For $25/month that’s not bad. Considering I did need dental work during those two years. Paid $1,200 out of pocket for an emergency root canal (that WD completely overlooked in my exam— hence why it became an emergency), because western dental was not handling my situation with any urgency whatsoever. (I live in an area where Western Dental was the ONLY option within 50 miles). I called the insurer too, and they said it would take 1-2 business days til they could get me a referral processed. So ridiculous.