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I HAVE SEVERE DECAY AND MAJOR DENTAL PROBLEMS FROM BEING ON MEDICATIONS THAT DRY AND ROTT MY TEETH OUT FOR MY CHRONIC PAIN THAT I HAVE TO TAKE! I NEED MAJOR ADVICE AND INFORMATION!!!
by SHELLBELL79, Nov 28, 2008 09:24PM
Hi,
I have always had great teeth and was diagnosed in 99' with Chronic Interstitial Cystis and Vulvodynia...bascily Pelvic Pain Syndrome. It's Hell! Anyway, since Hurricane Katrina in 2005, my mouth went from being almost perfect to having a deep cavity in every single tooth. I had alreay had a crown in the back and 2 teeth that had root canals that were not crowned yet and just broke off at the gum line and they have been like that since. I only have medicaid and don't have good credit, or money. I am 29 and still live with my parents b/c of the severe chronic pain I live in. I won't date b/c of my teeth. I have had 5 root canals so far and need a few more my endodontist said wed. She suggest that since my teeth are rotting from the gumline I should get all my teeth extracted and get implants. I have had on every single one of my teeth fillings since 05' done over like 3 to 5 times just in a 3 year period. Just with dental work I would need definatly 3 extractions, 3 inplants, 3 inplant crowns and a ton of fillings and over 15 crowns, 3 partials,etc, which would be at least 30,000. I can get a my grandpa who has great credit to sign fot the loan but the endodontist who is well known and my moms ex boss recommended the extraction and inplants and that I have great bone and they can be done in a day. Im scared about how much that all will cost at once, the pain,etc???? Im an scrared and excited. Im scared about the price and even though my grandpa has excellent credit should he still get approved? I am very scrared about the pain b/c I have a ridicoulusly high tolerance for pain medications b/c of my chronic pain illness. It would be cool thought to have perfect straight, white teeth!! Please, HELP! Any advice or info would be greatly appreciated!!!!!!!
Shell
I have always had great teeth and was diagnosed in 99' with Chronic Interstitial Cystis and Vulvodynia...bascily Pelvic Pain Syndrome. It's Hell! Anyway, since Hurricane Katrina in 2005, my mouth went from being almost perfect to having a deep cavity in every single tooth. I had alreay had a crown in the back and 2 teeth that had root canals that were not crowned yet and just broke off at the gum line and they have been like that since. I only have medicaid and don't have good credit, or money. I am 29 and still live with my parents b/c of the severe chronic pain I live in. I won't date b/c of my teeth. I have had 5 root canals so far and need a few more my endodontist said wed. She suggest that since my teeth are rotting from the gumline I should get all my teeth extracted and get implants. I have had on every single one of my teeth fillings since 05' done over like 3 to 5 times just in a 3 year period. Just with dental work I would need definatly 3 extractions, 3 inplants, 3 inplant crowns and a ton of fillings and over 15 crowns, 3 partials,etc, which would be at least 30,000. I can get a my grandpa who has great credit to sign fot the loan but the endodontist who is well known and my moms ex boss recommended the extraction and inplants and that I have great bone and they can be done in a day. Im scared about how much that all will cost at once, the pain,etc???? Im an scrared and excited. Im scared about the price and even though my grandpa has excellent credit should he still get approved? I am very scrared about the pain b/c I have a ridicoulusly high tolerance for pain medications b/c of my chronic pain illness. It would be cool thought to have perfect straight, white teeth!! Please, HELP! Any advice or info would be greatly appreciated!!!!!!!
Shell
I thought Medicaid paid for dental work if it was a necessity?
I forgot to thank you for your reply! I am so glad that I found out that I found someone will similar problems as me. I am going to start taking strong does of cal/mag too. That should help with the process. I know mostly when people get inplants they get the extractions and then have to get bone graphs and wait 3 to 6 months with a partial in and then get the inplant and then you have to wait to get the temporary inplant crown. The denstist/endodonist did the new 3/4 d cat scan of my entire mouth and said it will be aa waste of money with the crowns b/c my teeth will still decay. She said since I have good bone that the doc will extract them and put in bone marrow and the inplants all at once and do the temp. too. I'll just have to wait like 3 to 6 months for them to heal and get strong before the permanant inplant crowns. I just hope everything goes well, since he specializes in just doing that and he's well known and personally knows my endodonist who is my moms ex boss. She is going to tell him my case and send all my info and cat scans and hopefully with give me some kind of discount and I hope my grandpa who has excellent credit will get approved for all of it. Im just a nervous wreck and am scrared to go in public. You can't tell my teeth are bad unless you look really closely or if I smile big, cause then you can see the 2 missing teeth on my top side of my mouth and all the other cracked teeth. My front tooth had already cracked 1 month ago and had to get a quick bonding on it. Im just scrared to go out in public b/c you never know when those suckers are going to break off. My bottom teeth are badly decayed at the root. I am hoping to get an appt. with the speciality dentist this week and I have to get my other root canal done b/c I am hurting with it too much, other wise I would just leave it there b/c its going to be pulled out anyway and my endodontist is doing it for free. She say I have a bunch of others, but since their not bothering me, she's not worrying about them. But, all my teeth are very hypersensitve to pain and hurt daily. I can't eat anything hard. It $ucks! I know Ive probalbly repeated myself but, I am venting and scared! Thanks for listening and responding! Good luck with your teeth!
Shell
Try not to worry about any pain. I just had four implants after my four front teeth were pulled and I can honestly say the pain was minimal. I didn't even need pain meds after.
For me the hardest part was the novocaine shots, but once they were over, it was really a pain free procedure that was over quickly.
Good luck with yours and let us know how you do. Best thing you can do now is focus on the finished product because you will be there soon!
To a happy smile!
Gellia