Reception area, where you submit patient forms and update information

For your convenience, the Medical history, Financial policy, and HIPAA forms for your visit to Dr. Maron's dental office are available for viewing and printing online using Adobe Acrobat Reader. We recommend completing the printed forms at home and bringing them with you to your first appointment.

Digital x-rays from past dentists can be submitted online to our office using the Digital x-ray form.

If you do not have Adobe Acrobat Reader, click the following link to download the free version.

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If you have any problem getting these forms to print properly, call Dr. Maron’s office (845-454-0380); and we will gladly mail or fax them to you.

Click one of the following patient forms to view and print the (PDF) form:

• Medical history form
• HIPAA privacy form
• Financial policy form

Reception area, where Dr. Maron's administrative team handles insurance claims and payment for services

Dr. Maron’s office offers a variety of payment options to make dental care affordable for you:

• Cash
• Checks
• Credit cards—VISA/Mastercard/American Express/Discover card
• Interest-free financing from Care Credit if your portion of the payment is more than $500 and if you qualify (Click the link for more information.)
• DenVantage—in-office membership plan for patients without dental insurance. You pay a yearly or modest monthly fee, and all of your regular preventive care is included at no additional cost. In addition, you receive savings on all other dental services. Dr. Maron does not recommend the purchase of individual insurance policies due to the cost.

To pay safely online using your credit card, click here. You will be directed to a secure payment page that will expire after 5 minutes.

Insurance

Our office works with more than 500 insurance plans. Some of our treatments are completely paid by insurance; other treatments are only partly paid by insurance. We are certified by Medicare to provide oral appliances for sleep apnea.

By not participating in insurance plans, we save you money. How? Patients often come to our office for a second opinion after going to a dentist on their insurance plan list and being told that they need 13 fillings or 5 crowns or several root canals. What these patients have in common is an insurance plan that pays poorly for simple procedures like fillings. Doing more expensive procedures, like crowns, helps compensate for poor insurance plan fees. 

Our office gets reasonable fees from such treatment as fillings, so we have no need to upsell patients a more expensive procedure. Our patients are often treated at a fraction of the cost with innovative treatment plans.

With his years of experience and extensive educational background, Dr. Maron is often able to offer a patient numerous options to fix a problem. We try the least expensive and simplest procedure first. Only when the simple procedure fails, do we move on to a more complex and expensive treatment. Thus, the patient saves money.

For more information, see our FAQs on Administrative issues.

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 Nightguard used to alleviate jaw stiffness and headaches caused by grinding the teeth

Patients sometimes complain of muscle pain, jaw stiffness, difficulty opening the mouth, or headaches upon awakening in the morning. These symptoms are caused by clenching and grinding the teeth together for a long time and might indicate you have Temporomandibular Joint (TMJ) Dysfunction or MyofacialPain Dysfunction (MPD). The pain might indicate that the lower jaw does not fit properly in the joints or the bite is unstable or the muscles are in spasm. The discomfort is like having leg cramps at night or after strenuous exercise.

Dr. Maron has many patients that show symptoms of muscle pain from clenching and ginding their teeth. He is not a TMJ specialist and does not accept TMJ patients from outside his practice. However, he does diagnose the problems in his patients and shows them strategies to lessen the pain, including using moist heat and stretching the muscle fascia. 

One of the disorders associated with grinding (known as bruxism) is sleep apnea. The thinking is that the jaw is bruxing to move the tongue forward and open the airway. This condition should be treated with an oral applicance or a CPAP.

The challenge is to diagnose the problem correctly and then lessen the stress on your joints.