RANT!!! My teeth...

[NorCalPiper]

Back in the 90's when I lived in South Africa, I had a TON of work done on my teeth. Something like 6 cavities filled, scaling, etc. Just recently I had one of the fillings fall out...no big deal, but upon further X-Rays and examinations, its been determined that more than half of the fillings have cracked and decay is beginning under them! So yeah-i have dental insurance, but as opposed to health insurance, dental is more like 20% off coupons. Bottom line is that I'm looking at about 10k worth of work in the coming year (Root canals and such).....I've elected to have the immediate tooth in question pulled since it is the furthest back molar and will only cost 200$ to do, but man I'm pissed! So off I go at 2:30 (Tooth-hurty) to get it yanked...Dammit!! I'll be kilted at least.

[xman]

Sorry to hear it Josh. I've been putting off an extraction and bridge work for over a decade now as the tooth just keeps hanging on.

Bon Chance.

[Lallans]

Get a job with dental coverage- then your bills will quadruple but your dentist will bring up the local economy. And if you buy a luxury car or big boat franchise, you can get some of that money back.

[NorCalPiper]

It was quick....but gruesome. How people tolerated , or even did this before modern medicine is a nightmare to think about!

[Lallans]

It was quick....but gruesome. How people tolerated , or even did this before modern medicine is a nightmare to think about!

I believe most people just let them rot and fall out?- or if the pain was unbearable they had them pulled by a qualified local barber. Of course they do find mummies of the Egyptian pharaohs with fillings but those folks were living gods with publicly funded dental coverage.

[NewGuise]

It was quick....but gruesome. How people tolerated , or even did this before modern medicine is a nightmare to think about!

Should I as a medievalist start giving historical examples?

(No, you don't want to know...)

[Tartan Tess]

Wait until a doctor finds something inside of you....this will seem like nothing.
this is life...

[NorCalPiper]

My mother said the EXACT same thing!

[auld argonian]

Sounds like you have one of the same problems that I have...the old fillings rattling their way loose and having to be replaced by modern, hi-tech stuff.

On one of the last ones, my dentist did some very detailed digital photos of the recently vacated area and that got fed into the computer. The computer then controlled a machine in another room that machined an exact fit for the hole out of some new dental material that matched the color of the tooth exactly and when it was done he epoxied it into place.

Neat, huh?

But I forgot to ask him ahead of time just what this was going to cost and whether my insurance was going to pay for it...ouch-a-ma-goucha-ma!

Still, should future anthropologists find my skull, they will, no doubt, be mighty impressed...

Best

AA

[auld argonian]

Wait until a doctor finds something inside of you....this will seem like nothing.
this is life...

Hopefully, he won't find something like a 9mm slug in you...or have I just lived in Chicago too long?

Best

AA