Great

[tiamatlady]

The evil tooth is started to act up when I eat.
JUST what I need to happen right now - no money to pay anyone anything AND the dental work I'm putting off is creeping closer.
Feh.

One bright note - and this is me just being sick and twisted.
Wanted to see Britney (yes, Spears, get OVER it already I like her and I like her boobies in my face!) don't have money for ticket, was feeling resentful.

She's cancelled the whole North American tour due to major knee injury.
I feel horrible, since I'm thinking "heh, well I couldn't afford to see her and now I odn't have to feel I'm missing something."
I'm going to hell.

And that reminds me, to call Bret.

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[panzerkunst.livejournal.com]

What's up with yer toof? I have to get one pulled myself (it's cracked), which I am none too pleased about.

[tiamatlady]

Hmmm, lets see if I can sum up - it's been a couple of years, ongoing
Long time ago, one of my molars broke. Since I hate the dentist and had no money it never got taken care of. You might remember one time at Ceremony I was in LOTS of pain. Had a partial root canal. Proceeded to ingore in the face of expensive work. More pain when the meds and protections finally wore off. Also from a wisdom tooth. Go to new dentist, who removed wisdom tooth, and starts another root canal, but proclaims molar too far gone. Wants me to have oral surgery to remove molar, put in post for implant, and remove remaining wisdom teeth at the same time.

Cost for surgery - About $2000
Not including the implant, possibly including the post and beginning buildup.

I wanted to yank this tooth, they doctors talked me out of it. Thinking about just yanking it anyway (Well not me, having them yank it and that's that) I have a nice hole and something is exposed. I want to have it fixed, but money is a problem, so I'm going to put more of the crappy "sealant" I bought at CVS on it. It worked for a good 6 months, but I think there's a problem - I get headaches and I swear my eye on that side is bugging me. Of course, to quote Garbage, I think I'm Paranoid.....

*sighs* I want to take care of this. My dentist told me "Get a real job" as a way of paying for it, IE insurance. I'm also considering a new dentist.

[panzerkunst.livejournal.com]

Nice thing for a dentist to say. That ranks up there with when they note how your gums are bleeding, after poking at them with a METAL HOOK.

My woe is a bit simpler and irony-laden, a tooth was bugging me a few months back, it felt like something was trying to push through it, had to leave work it was so bad one day (oh darn!). X-rays showed nothing. I had been told for years that I had probably been clenching or grinding my teeth in my sleep, but I resisted getting a mouthguard, I pictured something like a football player's, and there was no way in HELL I'd be able to sleep like that and not drown in my own drool. I mean more than usual. But I finally gave in. They made a mold of my teeth, and the resulting mouthguard is hardly noticeable.

However.

While flossing one night I almost popped a filling out. When I went to get that fixed, turns out that that tooth is cracked, no doubt from clenching, and no other way about it, it has to come out. Both the extraction and replacement will not be cheap (what's the fucking point of insurance, then?!). I'm at least getting the tooth out soon, I'm tired of only chewing on one side of my mouth. But I'm not thrilled at the idea of having a gap in my teeth, even if it's in back.

Never been that scared of dentists, just of their bad jokes or attempts to converse with you while you obviously can't answer back.