You should take oral care seriously as you would your whole body. So if you're planning on getting a health insurance policy, make sure that you get a good dental one too. The premium ones are easy to spot; they do have ads on primetime TV. But in these hard times you just can't afford those premium dental plans. But cheap, full-coverage dental insurance policies are out there. You just have to know where to look.
The best way to get at those sweet dental plans is to get a recommendation from friends or relatives who have been tied to an insurance company for a long time and have already made a few claims. But besides recommendations, you can get them through other means so no need to worry. The internet is a good tool to search for good dental plans, but the bad news is that before you can get to the real cheap ones you have to go through a whole lot of premium insurance companies.
But don't sign up with the first good one you'll see, make a list of the possible candidate companies, jot down their details and compare them side by side. If you find out which one is the best then go with it. If you're not sure about using the internet to find something you can place your life on, then you could always go to your local city dental clinic or health center and get a recommendation from the dentist himself; the dentist must have seen a whole bunch of dental plans himself and may be able to recommend which one of them is the best.
You should never take your or your family's oral health for granted. Having regular teeth checkups are as important if not more so than physical examinations. So make sure that you choose a cheap dental plan that can fit your and your family's needs.