I am pretty stressed out about my teeth situation. If you knew just how bad of shape my teeth are in, you would think I am smoking crack....not cool. Because if you know anything about me..that's not my thing. I never had a cavity until I turned 18. I blame it on drinking energy drinks during high school so I could stay up late on the weekends like a "cool kid".
When I went to the dentist during my 18th year of life I had not just one or two....but EIGHTEEN FRIGGING CAVITIES!!! REALLY?! So I had those shit tons of holes filled and went on with my life.
Well I just went to the dentist during pregnancy and guess what they find? TWENTY FRIGGING CAVITIES!!!! How is this even possible?!?! They must not know I had fillings before, but I let them fill them anyway because "these cavities are taking over my whole teeth...bla bla bla". So they filled three molars on the top of my mouth on each side.
The only reason I went to the dentist is because I had this HUGE cavity on one of my front top teeth on the side!!! It was definitely obvious and it was quickly eating away my tooth and I was afraid it was going to fall out if not taken care of! So they put a filling in that one as well. Well a couple of months ago, I woke up in the middle of the night I woke up to a severe pain in my face. Turns out it was an infection in the front tooth! Yikes! So I was put on an antibiotic, but it was too late, and it didn't help at all. My tooth needed a root canal. So I had to go to the U of M dentist school to have a root canal done.
As of right now I have my original tooth still because they advised against me putting a crown on it right away because it turns out the nerve was COMPLETELY dead and they are afraid the tooth may just decide it wants to fall out. Great. I have to pay out of pocket for the crown which can be any where from 500 dollars and up. Probably a lot more. So we are playing a waiting game on this tooth, to see if it is going to fall out....at 20 years old! If it does, I will have to buy a bridge to put in there....which is like fucking dentures. It's really a saddening thought and I hope to God that my tooth decides to hang out in there and I can get a crown...
Well last night I was flossing my teeth (just so you know, this is a regular habit, along with brushing twice and using flouride rinse...I don't have scum mouth and I do take care of them, which is the strange part!) and a filling in one of my teeth fell out!!!! I was so pissed! So I had to go get it refilled. And since I use stupid medicaid, I can only go to one dentist in town, and I REALLY don't feel like they are the best choice for fixing my teeth since obviously the filling they put in fell out!! But what other choice do I have?! :(
Suppposedly I have cavities on the bottom molars as well, but before I let them touch them, I WILL be having my old dentist ship records over to them on what teeth were filled since I have an idea they don't know...and the top molars they did are with the metal fillings-not so cute and I DEFINATELY don't want my bottom teeth covered in them unnecessarily.
I wish I knew just how bad my teeth are going to get....I would just rip them all out now and get dentures if that is what I am going to have to do in the long run anyways. It's just a saddening thought. My gramps and dad both have terrible teeth-practically none of my grandpa's are real and my dad's are being eaten away as well. I have a feeling it's a genetic thing and I am screwed to have false teeth in the future. FML! :( But at least if I got dentures I could make them pearly and white :D since if you have ever seen my teeth, you would think I was chewing on poo all day-that's how nasty colored they are. Gotta think positive I suppose.
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
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My mom had to get false teeth in her 20s too, no worries! I never knew about them until a year or so ago... so that tells you how good they look. I'm sorry you are having troubles!
ReplyDeleteThat sucks that you are taking care of them and still getting screwed over. Freaking genetics! =S
ReplyDeleteCould your pregnancy hormones have anything to do with it?
I'm sorry babe. Everything will work out. Just one of those expensive lessons in life.
love you.
PS I LOVEEEE your new blog layout. It is so fitting and coordinates great.
ReplyDeleteAshley that makes me feel ALOT better that you never even knew your mom had them!!! :) I hope that after all of this mess is taken care of my problems will diminish, but I highly doubt that seeing how my gramps and dad are right now.
ReplyDeleteAnd Kels I have no idea...I would like to blame it on that, but I think they were forming before I got pregnant...could be wrong though :(