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36 minutes ago, laylalex said:

When I was a teenager the dentist gave me the option of letting my wisdom teeth just come in or have them extracted, since my jaws are big enough to accommodate them. I chose to let them stay in, why not. I keep them clean and the dentist says they look just fine. The only downside is that about once or twice a year I have teething pain for 3 or 4 days. As I do right now, and have for the past two days. There is something not right about being 35 and thinking about going to the pharmacy to find a teething ring. 

I did that as well but when I joined the Marines they decided 2 years later that they needed to come out. So I had them taken out and the dentist accidentally dropped one in my throat and I instinctively swallowed it. After the whole thing was done I had to go to the ER to see if the tooth was in my stomach or my lungs..... 

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1 hour ago, yuna628 said:

Husband has always taken care of his teeth, had braces, goes to his routine care. This is in a cracked tooth that was filled in UK ten years ago. Don't think they did it right honestly, very shoddy, but my dentist was of the mind to just 'watch it' rather than do something big to it. Took husband in last week as he was talking gibberish and looked rather grey and complaining of pain. Major infection and needs the root canal now. Sometimes we do all we can for our teeth but... stuff happens. I can say that my parents never had the money for a dentist, no insurance growing up, so no dental care for me and I paid for it as an adult. Spent a lot having the dentist fix my mouth. Crooked and crowded teeth, and wisdom teeth being impacted really isn't something that a person can prevent if they have no money for dentists and orthodontics. There is nothing cheap about any sort of care from a dentist if there's no insurance, and most days that insurance is trash to begin with.

Yeah it's not cheap. Our great supplemental insurances didn't touch our daughter's ortho work (expander, braces, etc.) meaning we forked about 5 figures over for her and that's just the initial stuff. Anything to do with the teeth is going to hurt, 

 

One of the last things that happened before I originally left for Canada is, after leaving job, I had some dental work done.. a handful of fillings. Lucky me, my insurance had lapsed days earlier. I had a quote for the work that needed to be done (and they had pinged my insurance prior so my initial payment was going to be under $100), but because of the lapse, afterwards, we easily worked out a cash payment plan, where one of the billing ladies admitted they surcharge insurers. What should've been around $2000 in work billed to insurance wound up being $1100 in cash directly. This mirrored other experiences I had over the years when insurance lapsed or in university when I declined insurance -- if you were dealing with people that did business ethically, understood the costs, or dealt with decent people who explained the costs (another element of ethics and/or relationship), you understood insurance in the equation unnecessarily inflated costs. This is why I've never been a fan of the insurance industry.. the encouragement of excess is simply not a good business decision, especially for the consumer, and the consumer is half the equation in a market, meaning it's an awful market choice, an unsustainable one. Then, don't get me started on how government helps mandate these prices/practices. 

 

The cheap part is preventative care and good habits, making life better yourself and those you take care of. The better we take care of ourselves, access the cheaper preventative care, the less we wind up needing any major, far more costly work done. This is where instilled values become all the more important. The encouragement of bad choices facilitates the unnecessary bloat of "problem solving" industries/jobs (e.g. "administrative"). This can segue more into the premise of the thread because we have these seemingly pointless bureaus and waste supposedly telling us how to be healthy but clearly not knowing **** all at best. At worst, people exacerbating unhealthy choices (or conflict and division) so they can create a problem out of thin air to solve (methodology to indefinite justification of bloat).

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1 minute ago, Cyberfx1024 said:

I did that as well but when I joined the Marines they decided 2 years later that they needed to come out. So I had them taken out and the dentist accidentally dropped one in my throat and I instinctively swallowed it. After the whole thing was done I had to go to the ER to see if the tooth was in my stomach or my lungs..... 

Oh no! Where did it end up?

 

Al's teeth are not bad for growing up with Scottish dentistry. He had a root canal at one point as an adult, private dentist in London who supposedly knew what he was doing. But about 2 years ago we were hanging out, eating popcorn and watching a film and crack! The whole tooth just crumbled. He had a huge gap and he had to get a post and crown. The American dentist was not impressed with the English dentist's work.

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3 minutes ago, laylalex said:

eating popcorn

Long-ago dentist buddy of mine said, "I see more broken teeth from popcorn and ice than any other cause."

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16 minutes ago, laylalex said:

Yes, and he said he had an old fashioned solution but I told him not to be so crass. 

 

all hail king alex!

* ~ * Charles * ~ *
 

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Just now, Ban Hammer said:

all hail king alex!

He must never know that he is being hailed as a king or he will become fully insufferable. It's particularly bad now because he is trouncing his colleagues at Words with Friends.

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1 minute ago, laylalex said:

He must never know that he is being hailed as a king or he will become fully insufferable. It's particularly bad now because he is trouncing his colleagues at Words with Friends.

he is a man of many talents

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39 minutes ago, Cyberfx1024 said:

I did that as well but when I joined the Marines they decided 2 years later that they needed to come out. So I had them taken out and the dentist accidentally dropped one in my throat and I instinctively swallowed it. After the whole thing was done I had to go to the ER to see if the tooth was in my stomach or my lungs..... 

While in the operating chair my very hot surgeon at the time was injecting me with all the happy drugs and I noticed a big spider crawling on the ceiling. My last memory was trying to say "hey dude.. there's spi..." I kind of wonder what happened to the spider when I woke up. Hope he didn't get swallowed. :P

 

25 minutes ago, TBoneTX said:

Long-ago dentist buddy of mine said, "I see more broken teeth from popcorn and ice than any other cause."

His was from peanut brittle. Mine was a clenching out a kidney stone... 😄

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1 minute ago, laylalex said:

Oh no! Where did it end up?

 

Al's teeth are not bad for growing up with Scottish dentistry. He had a root canal at one point as an adult, private dentist in London who supposedly knew what he was doing. But about 2 years ago we were hanging out, eating popcorn and watching a film and crack! The whole tooth just crumbled. He had a huge gap and he had to get a post and crown. The American dentist was not impressed with the English dentist's work.

It went out the back door.... 

My teeth were always pretty good growing up. I didn't have my first cavity until I was 19. That was the biggest issue I had when I got custody of my older kids from their mom was there dental care. They had around 7 cavities apiece when they first went to the dentist and the cost was CRAZY even with insurance. I actually forced my wife to go to her first dental check up in 2015 because she had never gone to a dentist before just for a check up. 

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33 minutes ago, Cyberfx1024 said:

It went out the back door.... 

My teeth were always pretty good growing up. I didn't have my first cavity until I was 19. That was the biggest issue I had when I got custody of my older kids from their mom was there dental care. They had around 7 cavities apiece when they first went to the dentist and the cost was CRAZY even with insurance. I actually forced my wife to go to her first dental check up in 2015 because she had never gone to a dentist before just for a check up. 

Ugh that sucks. Hopefully she helped pay. 

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All Dentist Practices Matter 

 

Yall all in here pimping for free dental advice LOL

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17 minutes ago, Burnt Reynolds said:

Ugh that sucks. Hopefully she helped pay. 

Who the x-wife or my current wife? If you are asking about the X then I will LMFAO in your face because she can and won't pay for hardly anything at all. I asked her to help pay for our daughter's orthodontic visit and she responded with the idea that "We put her on Medicaid because then they will pay for it". I had to shut that down pretty fast by telling her "Yeah but that will eventually come out of my pocket anyway because the state will come after me for the money because I am the one working". She doesn't work and is living off of SSDI, not to mention she recently was given a house and $30k when her uncle died. I have yet to receive any of that money for support

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3 minutes ago, Cyberfx1024 said:

Who the x-wife or my current wife? If you are asking about the X then I will LMFAO in your face because she can and won't pay for hardly anything at all. I asked her to help pay for our daughter's orthodontic visit and she responded with the idea that "We put her on Medicaid because then they will pay for it". I had to shut that down pretty fast by telling her "Yeah but that will eventually come out of my pocket anyway because the state will come after me for the money because I am the one working". She doesn't work and is living off of SSDI, not to mention she recently was given a house and $30k when her uncle died. I have yet to receive any of that money for support

I feel your pain brother

 

 

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1 hour ago, Nature Boy 2.0 said:

All Dentist Practices Matter 

 

Yall all in here pimping for free dental advice LOL

that's the thing about dentists, they're quiet about what they do.

but pilots............
how do you know a pilot is at the party?  don't worry, he or she will tell you.

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1 hour ago, Ban Hammer said:

that's the thing about dentists, they're quiet about what they do.

but pilots............
how do you know a pilot is at the party?  don't worry, he or she will tell you.

Or people who are vegan.

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