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.
Non-Tax Items. If a bank statement or cancelled check doesn't relate to an IRS item, you can shred it after one year. However, you might want to keep checks or statements relating to major life purchases -- such as your house -- indefinitely. The same holds true for checks written for home upgrades, which might come in handy if you sell the property.