Dentist Appointment

Today I had an appointment with the dentist. I was pretty sure that he wouldn't be doing any work and just check what needs to be done. Well I knew that I had a cavity on one of the upper left molars. I thought that I had lost a filling there. So the thing I was hoping for is to have the filling replaced and be done. Well, nothing ever is that easy!!

Turns out I id loose a filling. Not exactly on the one tooth that I thought I was missing the filling from. The one molar, where I can feel the cavity and where I get constantly the food particles stuck, doesn't have a missing filling. It's just one big cavity. The only way to fix that is having root canal work done and put a crown on top of it. If you guys think, that's the extent of the problem, well think again. The molar next to the one with the huge cavity has a broken filling with tooth decay quite some tooth decay under it. Right now this tooth is not in that bad shape than its neighbor, but it will be very soon if the issues isn't being addressed. Since that tooth already has a very big filling, the only way to salvage that tooth is - you probably guess it - by having root canal and crown work done.

All 3 teeth together, including anesthesia will cost me $ 8.000. That left me with 2 choices: Either pay the 8 grand or have the 2 molars removed. I know how bad chewing is when you're missing 2 molars... as I am missing 2 of them on the right side. That's no fun at all and it would have meant that I can't chew really chew properly on either side.

So I decided to go with the lesser of 2 evils and come up with the 8 grand to have the dental work done. Especially since that tooth is already hurting and I really want to avoid having to deal with excessive tooth ache...have previous experience with that.

So on the Tuesday next week I will have 2 root canals and the prep-work for the crowns done.