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[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (4 children)

If you have a cavity that you can't afford to deal with go get some clove oil ( yes, I know how people feel about essential oils and I usually agree- but this is legit) and cotton swabs. Soak the swab in the oil to excess and then put the swab in the cavity and squeeze the excess oil into the cavity. This is going to taste like you ate a thousand pounds of cinnamon and your mouth might water- a lot, but clove oil is a dentist approved antiseptic. You have to be careful, it can burn your face skin if you get it anywhere unintended.

I have been slowly losing my teeth over the past decade and am too broke to fix it, so I had to rely on clove oil between being able to afford extractions. It helped a lot. If the oil doesn't work then the infection is too far gone and you need good antibiotics. They wouldn't even be able to extract a tooth that bad.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (26 children)

Rethorical question: Where in the world your insurance doesn't cover this?

And: Buying a house .. I don't know what to say about this. Who would do such a thing?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

In Denmark, the social democratic Nordic welfare paradise, universal healthcare does not cover dental care for adults. If you're really poor and have an emergency you might have some luck begging the local municipality to pay for having the offending tooth pulled out but that's about it.

The result is a wide class disparity in dental health and even people who are not poor think twice before going to the dentist, resulting in issues growing worse than they had to be.

Some private insurance exists but they are free to reject you as a customer if your dental health is already bad.

Nobody likes the current system or want to be seen defending it. The only argument that's given for maintaining the status quo is that doing the right thing would be too expensive.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Same in Australia

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I find this cruel.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Dental insurance in the US is absolute garbage that barely covers anything really.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Dental is tricky in many countries. It's delicate, easy to go wrong and very often painful. In Poland I used to do simple things like fillings using public insurance and I've heard many times that I'm crazy and for sure they will fuck it up. I think it's simply because it's it expensive and will go wrong people will think it was inevitable. But if it's free and goes wrong people will say it's because it was free. So in my experience even if public insurance covers dental people tend to avoid it.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

clove oil, babes. you can buy cloves and coconut oil at the dollar store. dump em both into a pot, simmer on low for a few hours. strain and pop into a container. it'll solidify, so you can just swipe a chunk and tip it across your gums and into any applicable holes. not as good as the distilled stuff, but it's kinda hard to make that yourself without the proper equipment.

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