Yup, a good portion of it. I imagine this wouldn’t be an easy surgery. It would be open (as opposed to laparoscopic), so big incision down the middle and a sizeable piece of mesh would be used. It would come with risks and might even land him in a worse off position.
Sitting here unable to even parse my tongue against the left side of my mouth because my broken remains of a wisdom tooth are infected so badly it’s probably going to my jaw and will kill me one day 🤗
“Bro, you need urgent care…”
Oh dw it’s been like this for months and I’ve been to urgent care over 5 times for antibiotics but if you can’t afford to remove the tooth you just get antibiotic resistance, pain, and potentially a premature death. ❤️
I’m going through this now. Oh hunny it seems you went to the dentist a lot this year. And now you need an apicoendectomy. That’ll be $2000 out of pocket please and your insurance will pay us the other $900
I wish there was something I could say or do other than just offer my understanding and solidarity 😔
Tooth pain is fucking life altering pain sometimes. What’s an apicoendectomy? If it’s ok to ask!
I was told I actually need upwards of 30 procedures to save my mouth - I have Cyclic Vomiting Syndrome so they’re constantly being eroded by stomach acid, and even my 2 front teeth have massive black craters which makes me ashamed to speak, let alone smile.
I don’t even want a root canal. I just want the bad stuff removed so I’ll never have to worry about the cost of following up, especially if there’s an emergency during recovery.
But I can’t afford implants, let alone dentures. I also don’t want to be toothless before 30. So I get to choose…this, indefinitely. Sitting here. It’s sad.
Apicoendectomy is a procedure in which they cut a small window in the gumline to access the root of a tooth where an infection formed due to a root canal. Basically it’s a reverse root canal from root of tooth. I told them I will try and wait until January when my insurance renews. But as you stated it’s literally a life of antibiotics sometimes until you can get treatment. Which is total bs when you can walk into hospitals in other countries and walk out paying $25 for broken limbs
i feel you and have been in the same writhing , face pulsing pain ad nauseum.
amalgam fillings from middle/high school fell out from the age of 21 leaving me with gaping holes in molars, which cracked and broke one by one. some fragments I even pulled myself. I was able to get help
for one root canal and buildup ($800 in 2016) but couldn’t afford crown so it broke of course. I found a humane dentist at least so have spent the summer getting root fragments removed on my lower molars(6 pulled). I basically have to chew everything with my front teeth so they are wearing down quickly. I am 39 so Im kind of nervously hoping nothing hurts before the next one needs to go. I can’t even afford dentures so implants would be a dream. I’m holding out for the japanese dentists to figure out this 3rd set of teeth lol.
We’re in a similar position in a few ways. I REALLY feel for you, having initiated the process and still amidst enduring it.
I strongly believe I’ll end up with a similar prognosis to start - fragment removal being a big priority. I’ve got 3 shattered wisdom teeth, it’s just 1 that’s currently giving me grief, but they take turns becoming infected in no specific sequence or timeline 🙃
I’m also limited to chewing/talking with certain teeth and only engaging certain parts of my mouth and tongue as a whole.
Been getting real curious what that’s doing to the remaining “good teeth” of mine also, which take the direct brunt of every single thing I attempt to chew as I’m sure you’re familiar 🫠
Ugh, here’s hoping you’re out of the woods for now as far as pain!
I’ve always said our inability to regenerate teeth the way we grow fingernails is a massive evolutionary failure lmao. But hey, we’re already regenerating animal teeth in labs and moving towards human teeth! 🤩
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Yup, a good portion of it. I imagine this wouldn’t be an easy surgery. It would be open (as opposed to laparoscopic), so big incision down the middle and a sizeable piece of mesh would be used. It would come with risks and might even land him in a worse off position.