An Oral Ouch
I've had dental problems since I was 16 years old when my family's denist filled in three cavities. (The denist had cracked a toth filling it, but he told the filling will hold it together.) I used to brush sometimes 3 times a day just to avoid going back to the denist again. However when I was in college with finals, papers, scripts I was working, I was drinking sugary coffee and soda and unfornately brushing my teeth less.
The denist told me I was supposed to get my wisdom teeth cut out when I was 16, but I was in the middle of choir small ensembles and solos, I couldn't not sing. I refused to do in it in the summer. I mean what if my voice changed, or if the dental surgeon dropped the scalpel and it cuts my vocal chords and I would never sing or talk. I know it was far fenched, but I still fear it. I also fear being put under as I've never done that before, whatever it's all a normal procedure and I don't wake up? I was almost afraid that dental surgeon may take out the wrong teeth or even worst all of my teeth. As I said before, I know it was far fenched, but I still fear it.
I dreaded the dentist for years. I even avoided going for 8 years which is unhealthy I know, but my teeth never bothered me until last year. I actually broke a tooth completely, one of the teeth I got filled. The filling came out and it broke it half. Then I went to a clinic and they took out the rest saying they couldn't restore it, unluckily it's in the back of my mouth.
Then I started to get swelling and pain, but I had realized it wasn't by the tooth, It was from the back of my mouth, well jaw actually. I was taking tyenol like candy with Oral Jel and then liquid Oral Jel (Much stronger) After a while it went away. My jaw would get sore on a cold winter day as my mouth now was super sensitive to hot and cold. So i even changed tooth paste for sensitivity. I did everything in my power to avoid the dentist as all cost. (Meanwhile I kept getting from my step mother I told you so, you should have gone, blah, blah, blah.)
No offense to any denist out there, but I think they are pure evil. . . worst than any demon that could face me. My jaw became to swell again in May and by June it was so swollen that I could barely talk or eat. So my mom basically took me to the dentist kicking and screaming in pain. I got a check up and sure enough she told me that my wisdom teeth are so impacted that they have to removed two molder just to get to two of them. I have to have two pulled and two surgerically cut out. (The denist I had was bitch, she was rude and told me I was acting like a child-- well excuse me I was in extreme pain and my jaw was swollen. . . I'm sorry I couldn't be more pleasant.)
So then my next goal was to find a place or an insurance that would pay the two grand for this dental work that needed to be done. The only thing I found was this one insurance that may pay up to 80% of surgeon cost if I used their surgeon in Columbus. . . errr.
Now I have a job and they are really bothering me. I need to see what kind of health I can get now that I have a part time job. Damn it, just what I need to take a few more days off to have someone rip bone out of my mouth.