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[–] [email protected] 88 points 1 year ago (3 children)

As a toothless and broke person this got me good. Been a while since I've been this personally attacked.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago

My condolences. hug.gif

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 year ago (3 children)

If you can't find a cheap or available option try contacting a local college of dentistry. Honestly, they're always advertising free or low cost dental care here.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Yes and please make sure you get it checked out! It may seem like a non-issue (just minor pain, etc) but if it ever gets worse the damage is likely going to become permanent and your quality of life with no teeth/extreme toothache is a lot lower than you might think.

Source: my dad and uncle neglected their teeth and its becoming a bad issue now

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not even that, your teeth are linked in with your vascular and nervous systems. It may seem like a none issue now but it could lead to neurological issues or sepsis.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

I think you may be right; I watched in real time as someone I know let their teeth rot out, and there’s been a distinct change in them mentally. I only wish I was joking.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Not to mention the other problems it can cause.

Ten years ago when I was even more broke than now and didn't have any affordable options, I would put off going to the dentist if at all possible.

This lead to two tooth abscesses that spawned a third one in my throat. I was in the hospital for two weeks, one of which I spent in the ICU on a respirator since the growing abscess was pushing on my trachea.

If not for the near-universal single payer healthcare here in Denmark, I would probably either gone to the hospital too late and died or been in crushing debt for that hospital visit for the rest of my life even if I lived to be 100 years old.

Then again, if not for someone's idiotic idea of not including dentistry when they set up the single payer system way back in the 60s or 70s, I would have been able to afford taking much better care of my teeth and never would have been in that situation to begin with.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Thanks, you’re totally right as my grandpa neglected his and had false teeth. One of the reasons I’m such an ardent brusher, I’m hoping this case is something simple.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Yeah do what this person’s saying, I watched someone I know disregard their own teeth and saw their teeth actually rot out of their head. It is no fucking good.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks, I’ll look around. Better than waiting.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

For cleaninga - Dental hygienist schools always I mean ALWAYS need patients. They have to find them to graduate..

For cavities/ pain - Some local community health departments have low cost / sliding scale dental health care. Call your local health department

Source - wife is a dental hygienist and worked in public health

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

This. They just need you for a follow-up visits, since they get graded on how mow complete the procedure was done.

Unfortunately, dental works are of those kinds where everything takes multiple sittings.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I'm currently living through my most stessful week of my life: About a year and a half ago, I bought a plot of land with the project of building a home there, inflation and loan rate kicked in, so I thought "alright let's wait a bit see when it stabilizes", this week I learned my plot is planned to be removed from the "buildable" area. If I don't put a building permit to the city council before this is voted my land will basically see it's value divided by 20 and I won't be able to build a house there, I put 6 years of savings into this project.. all because my gov decided that they didn't want this area to be urbanised anymore.

I have trouble sleeping and working I can't think of anything else, I also lost my appetite.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh no!

I’m guessing plopping a manufactured (mobile) or tiny home (shed) there wouldn’t tide you over…(?)

Good luck 🤞

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Thank you for the kind message. We are looking into these alternative options, they come with their own set of laws and stuff, we don't really know yet what we can do.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Actual nightmare situation

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Canada just released its timetable to phase routine maintenance dental care into a consolidated health plan.

It's starting small, but if our Republican wanna-bes don't kill it we could have universal coverage and equal access to dental care regardless of economic station.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Everyone deserves free healthcare and dental, I pray you get to see that dream.

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

This might sound scary, but try holding ice cold water in your mouth. I had an infected tooth and that made it feel SOOOO much better until I could get it fixed.

May or may not help your situation, but if it hurts as bad as mine did, you're probably willing to try anything.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

At this point, I’ll give anything free a shot lol.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

I had an abscess under a tooth many years ago, and the only thing that helped the pain was to chew ice and pack the resulting slush in between the gums and cheek where that tooth was.

It wouldn’t do anything for a minute, then suddenly the pain would just turn off. It was great.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This. I've only been recently able to afford much needed dental care, and now it's too late for one of my teeth, a tooth above it broke the roots because my mouth is too crowded. Had I been able to afford it earlier, I would have a much more normal mouth.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have larger than average teeth too, so I had braces all of middle school.

Hoping the cause of this is something simple like a sinus infection, though the area has a baby tooth that’s managed to hang on and it has fillings from when I was a kid.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My problem is the opposite, normal teeth, small mouth! Haven't ever been able to have braces until now, so I'm knocking it all out now. Hope everything goes well for you!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Ouch… Hopefully it all goes swimmingly for you, and remember no pain, no gain. And thanks!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Aye, the least you can do is contain the damage...

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Yep, I'm grateful that I can fix what's still there, it's just unfortunate that teeth are luxury bones, and good health is a luxury in and of itself.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

I'm in the middle of getting a crown down, two more weeks til I get the crown put on. I have an implant from a while ago. The implant hurt more.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I chipped my back teeth on something, but it ain't hurting so i am making an effort to not worry about it. Not like i even want to live to see my body breaking down in old age anyway.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

How bad is the tooth? Percentage wise of it’s size, I think anything near a 1/4 of it is pretty bad. 🤞

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Some bad tooth advice: try to floss with a water pick if you can, do it softly, after you brush your teeth. Follow by rinsing with 1 part hydrogen peroxide and 9 parts warm water—DO NOT swallow the hydrogen peroxide mixture, and definitely please make sure to dilute adequately with water. Are you in any state that has Medicaid? I think I remember it having a dental component. In lieu of that, a lot of dental schools offer free services. Good luck!!

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