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Step 1 — start with a search

Find a dentist you'll actually look forward to.

Dental Sidecar is your concierge for dental care. Search top-rated offices near you, compare plans without the fine-print games, and keep every card, family member, and visit in one place.

Often seen same or next day Preventive care from day one on many plans All 50 states + APO/FPO
What you get

One place for the whole dental side of life.

We don't sell you a maze. We help you get seen quickly, understand exactly what's covered, and handle the boring parts so the care actually happens.

Find & book fast

Search the highest-rated offices near you. Many of our partner offices can see new patients the same day or the very next day.

Check your current coverage

Already have a plan through your employer? We help you see what's covered, what isn't, and where the waiting periods are — before you spend a cent.

Compare plans honestly

Side-by-side plans with the real terms up front. Preventive care is usually covered right away; we'll always tell you where the catches are.

Every card in one wallet

Your Dental Sidecar plan and your employer dental card, ready to show at the desk, download, or send straight to the office.

Family & friends together

Add kids, a partner, or someone you're caring for — even a common-law spouse. Help a friend get set up too. Look after the people you love.

A real human to call

Stuck on a step? Our concierge and highermark.xyz/dental walk you through everything, from booking to billing to financing.

How it works

From "I should really see a dentist" to actually going.

STEP 01

Search offices near you

This is always the first step. Tell us where you are and we'll show top-rated offices with real availability.

STEP 02

Check your coverage

See what your current plan covers, or compare new ones with the waiting periods spelled out.

STEP 03

Create your account

Secure sign-up with Clerk. Your wallet, plan, and family all live here.

STEP 04

Start your assistance

$5/mo unlocks your concierge dashboard. If any step stalls, we'll help you finish it.

Didn't make it all the way through the steps with an AI assistant? That's normal — dental admin is genuinely confusing. highermark.xyz/dental is here to help with everything and walk you through the rest, so nothing falls through the cracks.
No fine-print games

How dental coverage actually works.

Here's the honest version every good dentist will tell you. Knowing this up front is how you avoid surprises — and it's exactly what your concierge helps you plan around.

Preventive care

~100%

Cleanings, exams, routine X-rays. On many plans this is covered right away, often with little or no waiting period.

  • Typically two cleanings + exams a year
  • Frequently $0 out of pocket
  • Best first appointment to book

Basic care

~80%

Fillings and simple procedures. Often has a short waiting period depending on the plan.

  • Usually covered after preventive
  • Check your plan's waiting period
  • We flag this for you

Major care

up to ~50%

Crowns, bridges, oral surgery. Almost no U.S. dental plan covers major care above ~50% — and rarely on day one.

  • Longer waiting periods are normal
  • Annual maximums apply
  • This is where planning matters most
The honest truth about major care: no dental plan in the United States covers major work at 100%, and very little is covered on day one. Here's how it really goes: the office does exams and X-rays, figures out what care you actually need, and gives you a treatment plan — usually staged over time. Preventive and basic care come first (often that's all you need). Anything major comes later, and is typically covered up to ~50%.

Your priority if you need work done: talk to your home office about the treatment plan with the dental professionals so they can sequence your care correctly. In many cases you pay little or nothing up front, and for what's left there are very affordable payment plans spread over a long timeframe — sometimes through the office directly, sometimes through financing. Dental Sidecar helps you choose the best option (or use the office's in-house plan) so cost never stops you from getting care. This matters most for families and anyone on a budget.
Simple, honest pricing

$5 a month for a concierge that does the legwork.

The $5/month is for the assistance: the search tools, the wallet, the human help, and the dashboard that keeps your whole dental life in one place. Actual dental plans are separate and priced by the carrier.

Dental plans (separate)
$20–$50/mo

A range of real dental plans you can compare and enroll in through Dental Sidecar. You choose — or skip it and just use the concierge.

  • Preventive care, often from day one
  • Plan terms shown clearly before you enroll
  • Compare or lock in any time
Required for dashboard
Dental Sidecar assistance
$5/mo

Your concierge + dashboard. Unlock it after you finish the flow.

  • Find & book offices near you
  • All your insurance cards in one wallet
  • Add family, a partner, or help a friend
  • Help choosing payment plans & financing
  • Human help via highermark.xyz/dental
About

A company in the higherMark suite of enterprises.

Dental Sidecar is a U.S.-registered company doing business in the United States of America, based on the East Coast and serving all 50 states — as well as Americans living and working abroad, including APO/FPO addresses. We build calm, trustworthy tools for the parts of life that usually feel like a runaround.

higherMark Dental Sidecar highermark.xyz/dental

Built to be trusted

We say the quiet part out loud: where the waiting periods are, what major care really costs, and how to plan around both. No surprises is the whole product.

  • Registered & operating in the USA
  • Serving all 50 states + APO/FPO & abroad
  • Concierge support you can actually reach

Ready when you are.

Start with a search. We'll take it from there.

1 Search
2 Coverage
3 Compare
4 Account
5 Unlock

Step 1 of 5. Let's find offices near you — this is always the first step. Type a city or ZIP and I'll pull up the best-rated options with real availability.

Search dentist offices near you

Top-rated partner offices, sorted by rating and how soon they can see you.

Step 2 of 5. Let's check what you already have. If your employer offers dental, we'll show what's covered now — and exactly where the waiting periods are.

Check your current coverage

Have a plan through work? Enter it and we'll summarize. No plan yet? Skip ahead to compare.

Cleanings & exams (preventive)Covered · no waiting
Fillings (basic)Covered · ~6 mo waiting
Crowns / major care~50% · 12 mo waiting
Annual maximum$1,500

Step 3 of 5. Here are plans with the terms up front. Preventive care is usually immediate; I've noted where the waiting periods land. Pick one now, or lock it in later from your dashboard.

Compare plans honestly

Real ranges, real terms. You can also continue with just the $5 concierge and choose a plan later.

Essential
$20/mo
  • 2 cleanings + exams / yr
  • Preventive from day one
  • Basic ~80% after waiting
  • Major ~50% after 12 mo
Plus
$35/mo
  • Everything in Essential
  • Shorter basic waiting
  • Higher annual maximum
  • Whitening discount
Family
$50/mo
  • Up to 4 members
  • Kids preventive day one
  • Best major-care maximums
  • Priority concierge

Step 4 of 5. Create your secure account. We use Clerk for sign-in, so your wallet and family details stay protected.

Create your account

Sign up to save your dentist, plan, and wallet.

or

Demo sign-in — no real account is created.

Last step. Activate your $5/mo concierge to unlock your dashboard. This is the assistance fee — your dental plan, if you chose one, is billed separately by the carrier.

Unlock your dashboard — $5/mo

Your account is ready. Activate assistance to reveal your profile, plan summaries, and wallet.

Payment details

Demo only — no card is charged.

Order summary

Concierge assistance$5.00 / mo
Dental plan (Plus)$35.00 / mo
Due today$5.00

Your dental dashboard

Signed in · Sara R. · concierge active
Demo active plan
Wallet & cards
Coverage
Family & friends
Journeys
My plan

Your insurance wallet

Tap a card to open it full screen, download it, or send it to your dentist. These are clearly-marked sample cards with demo data.

SAMPLE
Dental Sidecar
Member plan
Member ID
DS-•••• 4821
Member
Sara Rivera
Plan
Plus
Dental Sidecar plan · referral via highermark
SAMPLE
Northstar Dental
Employer group
Group ID
NS-•••• 7730
Subscriber
Sara Rivera
Network
In-network
Employer dental · fictional sample carrier

What each card covers

A plain-language summary. Waiting periods and percentages are the things that actually matter — so they're front and center.

Dental Sidecar — Plus
Cleanings & exams100% · day one
Fillings (basic)~80% · 3 mo wait
Major care~50% · 12 mo wait
Annual maximum$2,000
Northstar (employer)
Cleanings & exams100% · no wait
Fillings (basic)~80% · 6 mo wait
Major care~50% · 12 mo wait
Annual maximum$1,500
Covered right away: on both cards your cleanings and exams (usually twice a year) are covered at or near 100% — often from day one. Major care (crowns, surgery) is the part to plan: no U.S. plan covers it above ~50%, and rarely on day one.

How it really works: the office examines you, determines what's actually needed, and gives you a staged treatment plan. Preventive and basic care come first. For anything major, you usually pay little or nothing up front, then spread the rest over very affordable payments — through the office's in-house plan or financing. Talk to the dental professionals at your home office about your treatment plan first; that's the priority, and your concierge helps you pick the best payment option.

Family & friends

Keep the people you love covered in one place — kids, a partner, a common-law spouse, or someone you care for. Toggle Help a friend to set someone up alongside you.

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Sara RiveraYou · primary
Primary
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Liam RiveraChild · age 6
Family
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Mia RiveraChild · age 4
Family
Help a friend
Add a friend so they get set up with a dentist too.
Illustrative example · Sara

Seven years away — then seen the next day.

Sara hadn't been to a dentist in seven years. A couple of her top-right front teeth had slowly started to overlap, and she was nervous about going. She signed up for a plan through Dental Sidecar at 11 PM, and in this example an office could see her by noon the next day.

At the visit she got a cleaning and a free exam, and the office did some first-day work to help with emergency tooth pain. She left without paying anything up front, on an initial plan. Through her first few visits she didn't owe anything; on a later visit she paid a small $5 co-pay (she swiped it on Cash App — a friend had spotted her the cash).

Her exam — about 15 minutes — produced a two-step treatment plan. After preventive and basic care, she had a little major work left, and on the kind of ~50% coverage typical of U.S. plans, her share for that step came to about $70. She had a tough month making it on time, but financing options sorted it out in seconds, and over roughly half a year she paid that ~$70 off comfortably.

She kept going to the office she likes in her city, got whitening and her preventive care, and now manages both of her kids' dental cards in one place. Finally getting the care she needed — that was the whole point.

This is an illustrative scenario to show how the product can work. Timing, availability, costs, coverage, and approvals vary by office, plan, and location.

Illustrative example · Leigh

The responsible one.

Leigh is the friend who spotted Sara the cash. She's always had dental insurance, never let it lapse, and has had healthy teeth her whole life. She likes that Dental Sidecar keeps everything in one place and makes it easy to line up a new dentist whenever work sends her somewhere new.

The rough math (illustrative):
click → plans in seconds+ same/next-day care+ plan $20–$50/mo+ card in hand → shown/sent to office+ $0 cleanings+ $0 exams+ often $0 up front for care+ care done in days= often < $100 total for any care, spread over months

Illustrative only. Leigh typically sees just $5–$70 co-pays and keeps her family's and friends' cards aggregated in one Dental Sidecar wallet.

My plan

Manage your concierge and dental plan, or compare and lock in a new one any time.

Concierge assistance$5.00 / mo · active
Dental planPlus · $35.00 / mo
Home officeMaple Street Dental
Members3
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Need a hand with anything — booking, billing, financing, or a treatment plan? highermark.xyz/dental is here to help with everything, so you're never stuck on a step.
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