No dentists accept my insurance

I posted this on a different sub but this one seems more active so I am also posting here looking for advice I have Molina Healthchoice Illinois. I had to set the radius to 50 miles for any dentists to come up, and it doesn’t even seem like l can go to any of them. I need that place to be my primary care, they only accept adults that are pregnant, you have to be a resident of that county. I’m actually at a loss and getting desperate and scared. I need dental care extremely bad. I have not gone since I was 17 and I am 24 now. I have mental illness and have neglected my dental health so things are defintely getting out of hand and I’m finally at the point I want to start working on it. I really don’t know what to do. I’ve been so scared about needing a tooth replaced or something and medicaid not covering it, but now I’m more scared of losing teeth because I can’t even get into a dentist to go into debt. I am really not knowing what to do here. I guess I’m asking for any advice please? What can I do? Is there something I don’t know about? I don’t really have a lot of experience with these things. When I tried googling the what to do if no dentists accept your insurance the answers were “self pay”-which I obviously can’t do if I’m on medicaid or “find a dentist in your network” so that really didn’t help me.

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