My husband and I are at our wits end. Seriously. As you may or may not be aware anything medical now-a-days costs and arm and a leg without insurance and even insurance is exhausting to find with this Obamacare shit.Ā
We have insurance, the problem is finding a good dentist. Now, itās a thousand of wonders why I donāt like doing these things because it seems over 80 percent of doctors/dentists/etc only care about their bottom line dollar.Ā
Weāre finding it more and more as we search. We both actually had good dentists until we got new insurance. We had to give them up because they donāt take our new dental and everything costs a fortune when you donāt have coverage. My husband has a tooth thatās killing him and he finally gets in to see a dentist and they tell him he has to get a root canal since the tooth is salvageable.Ā
Root canals are horrible, let me tell you. Itās best to get the tooth pulled instead of going through that misery and youāll loose the tooth eventually anyway. Youāre just prolonging the inevitable. Every one Iāve ever talked to or known who has gotten one has regretted it. Besides that fact it would cost $700 out of pocket for the procedure. Way to fucking much.Ā
So, he calls back and tells them heād rather have it pulled. They donāt pull teeth. No medical or plausible reason why, just the fact that they donāt pull teeth. He wouldnāt refer him to a āsurgeonā that would because the tooth is salvageable and says to reconsider. Ā So, needless to say, we wonāt be going back there since what kind of dentist with no medical issues wonāt pull teeth? The reason: Thereās not enough money in teeth pulling.Ā My old dentist had a medical reason for not pulling teeth. Ā He couldnāt pull teeth anymore because heād thrown out his shoulder. He was also up there in age. Thatās a plausible reason.
So now heās got another dentist that would do it and they have to look at the tooth and determine when theyāll pull it. My husbandās in so much pain heās threatening heāll do it himself if no one else will. At this point, I donāt blame him. Iāve never seen him this miserable.Ā
The hoops you have to jump through.Ā
