Dental insurance of any kind is pretty rare in the US. Large employers may offer this to their employees, but even then it’s a situation of very high coinsuranc

Dental insurance of any kind is pretty rare in the US. Large employers may offer this to their employees, but even then it’s a situation of very high coinsurance for any procedure of substance, and covered procedures are limited. So however bad your national dental system may be, it at least provides some baseline option for everyone — including the poor, the homeless, the jobless, and employees of small businesses alike.