Dental Problems are interesting

by Terry 38 Replies latest jw friends

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  Terry

  My appointment with the oral surgeon was this morning at 10 a.m.

  The tooth I'd cracked had to be tended to. I knocked the whole top off by eating a cube of ice. (Yes, the word "moron" comes to mind..:)

  We started the root canal procedure and an hour later the tip of the drill broke off waaaay deeeep in the tooth!

  Joy.

  Finally, with X-rays and consultation we went for extraction instead.

  Two and a half hours total in the chair.

  But, I had taken a hyrocodone before hand and I was mellow through it all.

  Instead of it costing $1900 bucks the total was $85 bucks.

  I call that a mixed blessing wouldn't you? :)

  The thing about dental problems is that we don't tend to them until they smack us upside the head.

  Why are we so negligent?
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  MrFreeze

  It's the human condition. Nothing is wrong with us until it is really wrong with us. I just recently had a root canal done. I too waited way too long. It wasn't until my face puffed out to the size of a softball and it was excruciating pain did I do anything. My dentist was great though. I would have considered extraction but it was one of the teeth in the front of my mouth so I didn't really want to lose it.
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  Theocratic Sedition

  Why are we so negligent?

  Could be wrong, and probably am, but I think it's a male thing. You should hear the mother hens I work with after telling them I haven't been to the dentist since middle school. I purposely disregarded obtaining dental insurance this past year even though my employer offers it. The next open enrollment period I plan on picking up the dental coverage and getting a checkup though. Hopefully everything works out.

  Glad you're alive and kicking Terry.
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  sabastious

  Why are we so negligent?

  Because it's NEVER 85 bucks for me.

  -Sab
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  King Solomon

  So was the $85 the usual price for an extraction, or discounted to make up for the unexpected drill breakage?
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  Glander

  My advice for anyone - even though you have no current problems, get an exam and cleaning. Take care of the things the dentist recommends. Then establish a routine of dental hygiene. I brush, floss, and use a waterpick. takes 5 mins. and can head off most tooth and gum problems. I am going to get one of the new power flossers. The last time I had a cleaning the lady said my teeth looked like they had just been cleaned. It had been about 3 yrs.
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  Terry

  So was the $85 the usual price for an extraction, or discounted to make up for the unexpected drill breakage?

  It is a very reasonable dentist clinic price wise.

  The rates around town vary like you wouldn't believe!

  I'll consider myself "lucky":)
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  baltar447

  I hear you. Dental problems run in my and my wife's families. Poor kids. Their oral hygene isn't a factor as much it appears genetic or we've been catching a super-bacteria and spreading it. Totally sucks. And costs for dental work are astromomical. I really do not know why they are so high.
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  baltar447

  Glander, do you attribute most of your teeth's cleanliness with the water pik in particular?
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  BizzyBee

  $85? Thank God for Medicare!