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 he is trying to get you to pay for fees he is charged because he wrote checks against your check before it went through, that is his problem. People should not write checks against funds that have not cleared. Many banks, if they see a check with a date 6 months or more before the date of cashing the check, would refuse to cash the check. Occasionally, the persons handling the checks may miss and allow a check written 6 or more months ago to go through. Holding onto a check for 3 months is not all that unusual. On another hand, many companies specify on their checks that the checks are good only for a certain number of days (such as 60 or 90 days).