Does the dentist participate in your dental health plan? What is the dentist's office policy on missed appointments? If visiting a dentist's office: Does the office appear to be clean, neat, and orderly? Do all surfaces and equipment in the treatment room appear clean? Is the dental staff helpful and willing to answer your questions?
1 Cancelled checks: Keep for one year in most cases. 2  Discard checks,check registers, check statements and credit-card statements after a year. 3  However,keep checks and credit-card statements needed to support tax filings seven years. 4  Loan-discharge notices: Keep forever in a safe-deposit box.
If a check happens to have conditional verbiage on it, such as void after 90 days this also would fall under the bank's discretion. Checks that are accepted after 180 days are subject to being returned by the issuing bank. A noteworthy exception to this rule would be any government checks, or certified funds (such as a cashier's check) which are typically honored for extended amounts of time.