In keeping with the stereotype of British dentistry, I’m having tooth problems. Anyone who knows me probably knows I’m missing a molar on my lower right jaw, extracted on New Year’s Eve 2001, that was the last time I visited a dentist. The running score now is one missing tooth, 1 chipped tooth, 1 slightly cracked tooth and 2 with corners missing. The most recent one (with a corner missing) occurred about a month or so ago so I’ve been putting off a dentist visit since then.
It’s not that I’m in pain or anything like that, it only hurts when I chew and food gets lodged inside. So with our medical insurance finally through, I took my snaggletoothed mouth down to the dentist today.
Prognosis? Root Canal
Eeep! Even with medical insurance, root canal costs a lot, and is quite the ordeal from what I’ve heard, it certainly doesn’t look like fun. I’m hoping to get this over with sooner rather than later…
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well let me tell you all this……Gregor was taken to the dentist every six months by his dad and i…i pride us as parents that his brother has not one filling or missing tooth in his head and he is 31..as for this boy well he should attend for regular checkups..his mum is allways mentioning that to him…moan moan moan [you cannt take a horse to water and make it drink]
Yikes! I go to the dentist regularly and yet I just had to have a deep root planing (due to lack-o-flossing) and on top of not being fun, it wasn’t cheap. The dentist I found isn’t on my plan (I know, I’m an idiot) so the 20% I’ve got to kick it in around $500. That’s a lot to pay to be tortured for a girl on a budget.
My advice: insist on good drugs.
My genes must hail from the UK. My teeth, despite capitalist dentistry and obsessive care on my part, have always sucked.
I have had a root canal. I dreaded it b/c of the expression that you’d always hear, “that’s worse than getting a root canal”.
I’m sure that before modern pain drugs, it must have been awful. But thanks to science, it is painless.
Good luck!