Girlfriend and I just paid about $10k to fly out to Costa Rica to get her a full set of crowns. Easily would’ve been $40k to do it in the States. Another good looking option was to drive to Mexico.
Half way though a year long wait to get 2 more root canals. Maxed it out this year with 2 root cannals and a few fillings.
My dentist actually solved this by being so busy and the only dentist office for miles that my 6 month checkup happens every 13 months.
Where I grew up, we called them “luxury bones”
My dad calls them an Audi (even if they cost way more).
Same in Australia, the only political party that does support having dental as healthcare and funded nationaly (The Greens, by taxing billionares) don’t get enough votes to legilsate it.
Australian’s are happy with shitty teeth and allowing billionaires to have all the nice teeth.
Practically no country has teeth implants as a part of their healthcare. We in Slovenia get partial external dentures for free and our healthcare is relatively decent (unlike our political climate).
I’m literally looking forward to having 8 teeth pulled this month because A. at least the pain will go away B. They’re putting me under general because the several extractions I’ve had before this traumatized the shit out of me.
I could also share the story of paying $800 for a root canal and temp crown then losing my job before getting the perm crown. The remainder of that tooth was extracted a year later for $350.
Paying $1150 to lose a tooth radicalized the fuck out of me.
When my tooth started rot, the pain was so severe that I tried to pull it out with my hand. Now I am eating only on left side of my mouth. Hope left teeth won’t die…
ugh i am so sorry friend
Same with the UK. Chewing and vision are classed as premium live features for some reason.
Honestly, it’s the same in Denmark.
Dental health is the one medical speciality where access to healthcare in Europe is almost as bad as the US.
On paper, most European countries include it in the universal health, but in practice it either only covers doing the bare minimum on life threatening conditions or there’s only one dentist in the public healthcare system per million people.
What? According to your comments that would mean that for example Austria has only eight dentists in the public health care system? That’s just not true.
Of course, no matter how good a system is, we can always try to improve it, like including more services, but it’s of course a balance.
There is a
simpleway that would improve health care in practically all countries: Make private health care illegal, not from one day to the next, but gradually. The only way to improve health care would then be to improve health care for everybody.Hyperbole (/haɪˈpɜːrbəli/ ⓘ; adj. hyperbolic /ˌhaɪpərˈbɒlɪk/ ⓘ) is the use of exaggeration as a rhetorical device or figure of speech. In rhetoric, it is also sometimes known as auxesis (literally ‘growth’). In poetry and oratory, it emphasizes, evokes strong feelings, and creates strong impressions. As a figure of speech, it is usually not meant to be taken literally.
They won’t install veneers, but pretty much anywhere they’ll pull your tooth if you’re getting an infection, at least you’ll be spared that issue.
It’s mostly the same in Canada too but we are moving in the right direction at least!
Obviously they are luxury bones you should pay to enjoy
Wisdom tooth came in. Killed my rear molar. It’s still in there, rotting out slowly and half disintegrated.
Can’t afford an extraction. Guess I have to suffer not being able to fully open my jaw, constant pain from the rotting tooth, with the bonus of it potentially getting infected and finally putting me out of my misery.
Fuck capitalism.
If there’s a dental school nearby you might be able to get it done cheaper at their clinic.
Medically necessary extractions are fairly affordable. If yours isn’t, I’d shop around for a different insurance.
For pain, get some finely ground Clove (try a bulk store to buy small amounts), mix a very small amount with a very small amount of coconut oil (or water, but that’s a little harder. Use a q-tip and put it on your tooth. It’s very strong, painless and can temporarily stop the pain as well as killing bad germs. Keep it on there as long as you can. You will produce a lot of saliva. Try not to swallow much of it, it may give you heartburn. It won’t kill you. But you should not consume large quantities of Clove. Your pain should go away for a few days. Try not to do this too much. There are Clove toothpastes in health food stores, but they are hard to find in the USA. This is a temporary solution.
I have health insurance through work that specifically covers dental and I still had to pay about $900 for two fillings. If I had something serious like needing a root canal I might as well just sell them my kidney.
40 + years of taking care to go to the dentist, and still lost molars to decay and periodontal disease. Don’t chew tobacco!
Glad I don’t use mouth cancer gum
Wow, how did you describe my life so well?
What eating disorder is a symptom of an untreated broken tooth?
not a symptom, but a trigger or risk factor - dental trauma can be really painful and becomes psychological trauma if severe enough
especially if someone was already predisposed to anorexia/bullimia, something like severe jaw pain can indirectly trigger a clinical eating disorder. the point is that all health is intrinsically linked and not neatly cordoned off into “dental,” “regular,” and “vision.”
good question thanks for asking! :)
Probably meant anorexia from not being able to eat. It’s not really the same thing, but not eating is not eating.
