Dentists - How To Find A Great One

When you’re new to town finding a good dentist can be an over whelming task to tackle. Navigating in new territory can be hard to do. Where do you start? Without the familiar comforts of home, you new town feels like just that- a new town, not home. And, unfortunately finding a good dentist is not one of those things that can wait. If you wait until you need a dentist, the chances are you won’t have time to shop around and make sure that you end up with a dentist that you like for the long term. So instead of leaving it to chance and settling for a dentist that doesn’t meet all of your needs, put your search at the top of your to do list.

Obviously if you just moved to your new town, you probably don’t know enough people to start asking for referrals to a good dentist and the phone book is never a very revealing source for anything. Luckily there is one source that you can use, even when you’re the new kid in town that is fool proof.

We use the internet for everything, including paying bills, online banking and reading the news. So why not take advantage of all of that technology and knowledge to find dentists? By tapping into a consumer based web site you can easily find not only a list of potential dentists in your town but you can also find how they are rated by their current and past patients.

Consumer based web sites allow you to have the same insight and knowledge that the locals have about where to shop, what doctors to see and what dentists to avoid. You don’t have to wait until you are a local to know what dentists to go to with this method. And let’s face it, you may be able to wait until your comfortable in your new town to select the perfect dry cleaner or grocery store but your dentist is not a waiting matter.
Narrow your list down to the top three dentists that meet your basic needs and schedule appointments to meet the dentists. The purpose of your meet and greet visit is to make sure the dentist works for you in real life and not just on paper.

Is the office conveniently located where you can find it? Is the waiting room a time capsule with magazine proclaiming Nixon just became President or is it up to date and relaxing? Is the reception staff friendly and reassuring?

They may be small things, but in the end, these are the things that will work to either make you enjoy going to your dentist’s appointment or dread it. But of course the beauty of your consumer based web site as a source is, you will already know the answers to these questions before you even set foot in the door, so your appointment will just confirm what you already know- you just found a great dentist.