Ouch...

[slashy]

So, um... yeah... I need a root cannal... or I can loose a tooth.

::sobs::

It's not the pain, I'm thinking of here... it's the fact that's it's gonna cost me about $1,140 USD, and I don't have the freaking money or medical inssurance, much less one with dental.

I can pay it in payments in each of the 6 visits it's gonna take, but still, it's $1,140 freaking dollars!!!!

::sobs::

I don't know how I'm gonna pay for this. I can't ask my parents 'cause they have no money either, and my bro already lent me (well, gave me, bless him, he won't accept refund payments) $1,800 for my new computer....

I don't know what to do. I don't make enough money in Borders to cover this in such a short period (two months), and *still* have left over for my bills and food.

I hate having to think that I'll maybe have to sell some of my comic/graphic novels collection or my Disney VHS movies in Ebay.... maybe some books too....

And damnit! If I knew this was gonna happen I would have never spent so much this holidays... Serves me fucking right, eh? I should know better...

*head-desk*

Comments

[amejisuto.livejournal.com]

Damn.

I'd just lose the tooth. Even getting a full set of dentures is less expensive than that.


Good luck whatever you do.

[joymaro.livejournal.com]

Yeah, well... At 23, I don't really feel up to dentures...

::wail::

[amejisuto.livejournal.com]

True, but you can always just chew around the empty socket. Cause that's a helluva lotta cash. Sheesh.

[joymaro.livejournal.com]

uh... if it were one of the teeth way back on my mouth, i'd consider it. But it's the second foremost moral on top, and I don't think I'd ever smile again if I had a gap there....

[amejisuto.livejournal.com]

EEep. That just sucks. Umm, do you have any dentistry collages around, sometimes if you let a student work on you it's like 50% off. That is if you can stand the thought of a student doing it.

[qzee.livejournal.com]

if no dental colleges about, see if the dentist is willing to work out a payment schedule, you pay say $100 up front and $100 a month till the debt is paid off. Or if you have a medical coverage thing with your employer, see if it includes dental work even in part.

[joymaro.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the ideas, but student dentists here do their practice at the public hospital, and that's not exactly somewhere I'd go.

And besides, I have a hard mouth to work on. I require more anestescia than normal and my teeth are tiny, which make reconstructing it difficult even for my dentist (he said so), who's been 15+ years in practice.

[qzee.livejournal.com]

well then seeing if the dentist will allow small payments for however long might work, especially if you explain your circumstances.