Tooth Troubles

Our lovely health system doesn't cover teeth. My job has no medical/dental plan. I've been trying to put aside $900 since January for a tooth I broke over the holidays and requires a crown. In the meantime, a tooth that was refilled last year decided to move on to the next stage. It started aching with eating hot food and then causing other teeth to ache.

It's one of my front teeth. My dentist tried to go in but she couldn't get it to freeze and I can't take regular freezing with epinephrine. And it turns out it's a mutant tooth having two roots. Front teeth should only have one. So I have to go to the specialist. I'm quoted $800-$1200 for the root canal only. That's not looking at another crown.

I have just enough money to cover the root canal and then that's it. I thought I could pay down my charge card but alas that's not in the cards. So it goes. Perhaps some day the government might see that dental health is essential to overall health. The thing is, I won't even have pretty teeth after this. They're fairly crooked and I've been told it would be $10,000 plus. Right, I'll just dip into the piggy bank.