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jjk91
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Right, so I have a pretty long story. I don't know technical names for teeth, but I'll do my best to be clear.
Back in '06, I went to a dentist who filled a small cavity, overdrilled, and then proceeded to very nearly drill into my face because he was so preoccupied with flirting with the attending nurse. After whatever dental work he did was complete, I couldn't help but brush my tongue over the surface of the tooth (facing the front just to the left of my left big tooth) and noticed giant ridges. When I got home, I tapped it, and part of the filling popped off. I was very young at the time with pisspoor insurance that many higher quality places did not accept, and did not get the problem fixed. Fast forward to '08 and having a severely infected root that required the endodondist to stop the procedure and give me a higher antibiotic dosage because of the bleeding. The root canal failed, my insurance didn't cover the apicoectomy, but the endodontist felt bad for me and did it pro bono.
Fast forward to '10 and chipping the left front tooth and the dentist I went to felt it would be in my best interest to crown the chipped tooth and because it was right next to the aforementioned root canalled tooth, to crown that one, too. I then ended up with an infected root on the same side of my face, but on the lower jaw, second to last molar. It was root canalled and luckily, treatment was a success.
Fast forward to mid '11, and I got hit by a car as a pedestrian, fractured my forearm and femur, and the impact caused my arm to fly into my face, and jostled the teeth on my left side, right where the root canalled molar was. Due to some more complicated business, my insurance expired, I couldn't see the dentist, let alone doctors, so my fractures healed incorrectly and the tooth took a turn for the worst.
Fast forward to early December of 2012, and the tooth abscessed, the boil was visible on my gumline, and two weeks later, I was in excruciating pain (which is saying something for someone who flew 15-17ft from a hit and run). I could barely move my jaw to speak let alone eat, and took initiative to find my own solution.
I don't have health insurance because I missed the enrollment period at work and should be getting it in a few weeks. Since mid-December, I've been taking colloidal silver as an antibiotic three times a day and for a while, it was working. I got shorted a pay period and wasn't able to buy more, and the affected molar got worse. Since then, I've been religiously ingesting it along with calcium supplements to strengthen the surrounding bone in hopes that it would help my case. It's abruptly gotten worse over the course of this past week, and now a deep filling has popped out of my right big tooth and two teeth to the left of the very first root canalled tooth is very sensitive because of a cavity close to the gumline that I suspect has exposed the root.
One of the dentists I went to caused trauma to a nerve that resulted in me having trigeminal neuralgia and up until now, it wasn't bothering me but it's been offset by all the dental problems I'm having. I'm experiencing 7-9 consecutive hours of headaches a day, swelling, and a constant dull throbbing pain. My only saving grace is my colloidal silver, and I'm so scared that my top infected tooth might spread to my crowned teeth. I'm only 22 years old and I'm an orphan who is living paycheck to paycheck. When I do get insurance, it will only cover basic dental work (prescriptions, fillings, x-rays), and only after a year of having it will my benefits increase. I don't have a year, and certainly not the money.
What do I do? If I could do a payment plan, I'd be okay, but every practice seems to require upfront payments, which I can't afford. I'm so stressed, and my medical problems outside of dental is just as bad. I am at my wit's end and I want to break down but I don't even have time for that. Does anyone have any advice? Anything I haven't already tried?
I've been doing: a tablespoon of colloidal silver once every six hours, three capsules of calcium supplements a day, saline solutions that I swish for three minutes whenever I can, a temporary filling replacement for the one that popped out (I tried putting some by my abscessed tooth and it seems to agitate it so I stopped), and ibuprofen to keep the swelling to a minimum.
Back in '06, I went to a dentist who filled a small cavity, overdrilled, and then proceeded to very nearly drill into my face because he was so preoccupied with flirting with the attending nurse. After whatever dental work he did was complete, I couldn't help but brush my tongue over the surface of the tooth (facing the front just to the left of my left big tooth) and noticed giant ridges. When I got home, I tapped it, and part of the filling popped off. I was very young at the time with pisspoor insurance that many higher quality places did not accept, and did not get the problem fixed. Fast forward to '08 and having a severely infected root that required the endodondist to stop the procedure and give me a higher antibiotic dosage because of the bleeding. The root canal failed, my insurance didn't cover the apicoectomy, but the endodontist felt bad for me and did it pro bono.
Fast forward to '10 and chipping the left front tooth and the dentist I went to felt it would be in my best interest to crown the chipped tooth and because it was right next to the aforementioned root canalled tooth, to crown that one, too. I then ended up with an infected root on the same side of my face, but on the lower jaw, second to last molar. It was root canalled and luckily, treatment was a success.
Fast forward to mid '11, and I got hit by a car as a pedestrian, fractured my forearm and femur, and the impact caused my arm to fly into my face, and jostled the teeth on my left side, right where the root canalled molar was. Due to some more complicated business, my insurance expired, I couldn't see the dentist, let alone doctors, so my fractures healed incorrectly and the tooth took a turn for the worst.
Fast forward to early December of 2012, and the tooth abscessed, the boil was visible on my gumline, and two weeks later, I was in excruciating pain (which is saying something for someone who flew 15-17ft from a hit and run). I could barely move my jaw to speak let alone eat, and took initiative to find my own solution.
I don't have health insurance because I missed the enrollment period at work and should be getting it in a few weeks. Since mid-December, I've been taking colloidal silver as an antibiotic three times a day and for a while, it was working. I got shorted a pay period and wasn't able to buy more, and the affected molar got worse. Since then, I've been religiously ingesting it along with calcium supplements to strengthen the surrounding bone in hopes that it would help my case. It's abruptly gotten worse over the course of this past week, and now a deep filling has popped out of my right big tooth and two teeth to the left of the very first root canalled tooth is very sensitive because of a cavity close to the gumline that I suspect has exposed the root.
One of the dentists I went to caused trauma to a nerve that resulted in me having trigeminal neuralgia and up until now, it wasn't bothering me but it's been offset by all the dental problems I'm having. I'm experiencing 7-9 consecutive hours of headaches a day, swelling, and a constant dull throbbing pain. My only saving grace is my colloidal silver, and I'm so scared that my top infected tooth might spread to my crowned teeth. I'm only 22 years old and I'm an orphan who is living paycheck to paycheck. When I do get insurance, it will only cover basic dental work (prescriptions, fillings, x-rays), and only after a year of having it will my benefits increase. I don't have a year, and certainly not the money.
What do I do? If I could do a payment plan, I'd be okay, but every practice seems to require upfront payments, which I can't afford. I'm so stressed, and my medical problems outside of dental is just as bad. I am at my wit's end and I want to break down but I don't even have time for that. Does anyone have any advice? Anything I haven't already tried?
I've been doing: a tablespoon of colloidal silver once every six hours, three capsules of calcium supplements a day, saline solutions that I swish for three minutes whenever I can, a temporary filling replacement for the one that popped out (I tried putting some by my abscessed tooth and it seems to agitate it so I stopped), and ibuprofen to keep the swelling to a minimum.
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