Re: UPDATE / Nationwide Manhunt for Sex Offender Boyfriend with 4 yr. old/ Colorado


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"Kris Baker" <parallelcooler@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Back to the dental work. When I read a corpse has had extensive
dental
work, I think poor and/or illegal. Bad teeth, then metal crowns
and
heaps
of old fashioned fillings etc. JMO.

jc


Poor people let their teeth fall out or get them pulled. There are
a
lot of
people that were just born with soft teeth, or took some meds that
ruined
their teeth, hence lots of expensive dental work.

Unless you have a specific dental plan that has good dental
coverage,
it's
extremely expensive. I believe a metal crown, which often includes
a
root
canal, costs close to or more than a thousand dollars a tooth.
Just ax
me.
:)

Chocolic


Depending on your dentist (and probably where you live), a
porcelain-covered metal crown can be anywhere between about $975 and
$1200.

Hester Mofet

I have a $2,500 molar. It's been filled, re-filled, crowned, and
then had a double root canal - then resealed. That was last
October. It still hurts. I went to a endodontist in Baton Rouge,
who told me that it should be pulled. Great. Our dental
coverage won't cover a bridge or implant for another year, so
I'm going to have a $4,000 tooth soon. No one will pull a
tooth for you, if you're not going to be in town for six weeks
and little did I know at the time, that I'd be in Baton Rouge
for 2-1/2 months. "Can't we LEAVE yet?" ;)_

Kris

Without looking it up, isn't a dental implant waaaay less that that?
I've
been contemplating going that route on a couple of my teeth.

Chocolic


I was thinking that, too. As much as I'd like to keep all my teeth,
when it gets to the point where my tooth is worth a trip to Europe,
it's time to throw in the towel and get the fake.

Hester Mofet

But you don't know what's going to work.

If I had known that I'd still have the pain $2,500 later, I'd
have had it pulled and a fake put it. The problem is, it's
now a root resorption -- and I think the pain is coming
from *below* where the root canal extends. My original
dentist didn't know what was going on with the root,
my new dentist did but sent me to an endodontist for
the root canal. The other endodontist in Baton Rouge
didn't want to touch it.

Even worse, I've known what's been going on for years,
but dentists don't listen. They "attack". I keep telling
them that the pain comes from when I use a toothpick
or floss on the side of the tooth....and they attack down
through the middle. Oh well.

Kris

The implant I've priced costs that much. I have much the same problem with
a painful, root-canaled tooth. New dentist says it happens in 5% of root
canals and won't touch it. I'll probably drive down to my old dentist. But
too much going on in RL to deal with this stupid tooth as well. I hate
dental dramas.
jc



I had one of those too. Left side of my mouth, lower jaw, second tooth from
the back. Had all the regular crap, root canal, numerous crowns over the
years, finally the dentist has to put a post in there because there just
wasn't enough tooth above the gum line to stick the damn crown on securely.
Well, when that new crown came off the post I said '*** it, I want the damn
tooth pulled'. So that's what I did. In fact, my dentist called downstairs
to an oral surgeons office in the same building. Oral surgeon had just had
a cancellation, so they got me in immediately. It was just before Christmas
not last year but the year before. Oral surgeon told me about *options* to
fill that hole. All of them were well into the thousands. I said 'forget
it, I'm old, if I'm going to spend thousands of dollars, I'd rather spend it
on the grandkids.' 'I could drop dead tomorrow, I'm not wasting all that
money in an old ladies mouth.' Haven't had any more pain or problems now
that the damn tooth is gone.

Best to all of you with problems/crowns.


bella


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