CLIFF-NOTES: Dentist ruins my jaw and possibly my life.
First I need to tell you alittle back story about myself.
I am not a standard dental case nor am I really a normal person or anything close to that,
When I was conceived my mother was taking prescribed steroids (before prednisone became a medical treatment) as she was dealing with socradosis. The doctors nor herself were not aware that she was pregnant and was giving her pretty heavy doses. The doctors eventually found out and when they did they highly recommended aborting me because I was going to cause her severe complications, but I slipped into another stage right before they could do it.
I was conceived with a lot of issues, one of them being I had about 10 teeth in my mouth and 4 of them were impacted inside my jaw. (Most babies are not born with teeth). They removed about 3 of those teeth. As I grew older, my teeth didn't develop properly. Mainly, there is a shield around our teeth called enamel that keeps are teeth protected from bacteria, and pretty. My enamel did not develop at all so instead I was left with bare exposed bone. I was very heat / cold sensitive and VERY prone to tooth decay. Regardless of how much I brushed, my teeth just went on a speed trip of literally rotting in my mouth.
All throughout school most people thought I didn't brush as my teeth ALWAYS appeared yellow, they were very crooked, I had MORE teeth than an average person should have, many were impacted and I carried atleast half of my baby teeth into my adult years. I was VERY insecure about my smile / my teeth in general and have felt that it is one of the biggest reasons I have not been able to date in my life. I have read in dating forums and dental forums alike what girls really think of bad teeth and dating and was quite surprised by how shallow most girls really are. All of my dates have been online and they have all ended in disaster and lately I haven't really cared much for romance.
For years and years since I was a child me and my family have been looking for a way to fix my teeth. Dentists would either be too afraid to touch me, or charge us to clean them then refer me to a periodontist who says before he can touch them he needs an orthodontist to work on them who says before he can touch them he needs a periodontist to do this first and all the oursoucing and going back and forth between multiple dentists has literally costed us TENS of thousands of dollars and it eventually came to a point where it REALLY didn't look like a dentist could fix my teeth without costing me over hundreds of thousands of dollars and Im not exaggerating, I have spent atleast $50,000 on my mouth before my most recent operation.
Finally what happened was my teeth began to grow painful abscesses, mainly my molars. At the time I didn't have a job or insurance so my only hope was to burst them. I had cavities so deep I could stick a toothpick all the way into my root. When I finally did start working I was over-encumbered with the standard life expenses and didnt have the money to even dream of taking care of this and its been a BIG worry of mine until one day I felt un-explainable amounts of pain that literally put me in tears (and I am a guy that handles pain very well, I broke my left knee and laughed while the doctors put it back together).. That tooth had to be pulled, pulling it wasn't an issue but the dentist told me what my options for fixing my teeth were. ALL of my teeth were beyond repair, root canals, crowns, none of that would save them. I got a second opinion and they agreed. My only hope was dentures or implants. Because the amount of work that was needed in surgeries and extractions... It was going to cost a MINIMAL of $40,000 for just cheap throw on dentures. and about $80.000 for implants. I have tried the options of medicaid financing, I did not qualify (I have heavy amounts of student loans on my credit.) I tried government grants but that required me to go to THEIR dentist.. and their dentist did not feel comfortable with touching my teeth so that also did not work.
I found a dentist who was going to beable to replace my teeth in the ball park of $10,000, expensive but compared to the alternatives cheap..
We worked out a payment arrangement of which would have spread the work out between June and September. I also had insurance helping as well. So what happens is on my first visit they needed to get my impressions for my dentures but one of my teeth was blocking them so they scheduled to removed it along with 4 other teeth. INSTEAD they ended up removing about 10 teeth and his excuse was, some of them were in the way.
Removing 10 teeth put us WAY ahead of schedule by about 3 visits and atleast 1 month so I ask him if we're still okay financially and he says yes everything is fine so we proceed with the next extractions. This guy ends up pulling 4 impacted wisdom teeth, 2 impacted molars and 2 additional molars as well as a few other teeth where as several dentist have said the impacted teeth needed to be serviced by an Oral Surgeon, including this very dentist. I bled, alot..and I was in alot of pain and I had to miss work for about a week and a half. I managed that though.
Finally he sends me to another office for my post-op visit and this office has no idea of my financial arrangement and basically says I really only have 1 more visit left. Note that not even a full month has passed since the first extractions. I ask them how much I have to pay them and they ask if I can just bring in $1,200. I say thats fine and I came back in 2 weeks with $1,200 and they take it. I'm ready for the final bit of work to be done and instead the dentist tells me that the dentures arent ready yet and they need to retake my impressions and send them to the lab. Well Im prepared to leave and the receptionist asks me if I was paying anything today and I told her I thought we were done (note that I have care credit and insurance also helping with this) and she says I owe them $3,000!! While $3,000 in itself is not a shocking number to me, the issue is they took all my teeth out saying I didnt have to pay ANYTHING and willingly did the work then they stop me at the very end with a $3,000 bill while I have almost no teeth. I only had my front teeth uppers and lowers remaining at that time. I was pissed but I told them I would need a month.
A month passes and my scheduled visit is coming up, life happened and I was only able to save $1,000. They call me to confirm if I was coming in. I told her I didn't have the $3,000 so no I wasn't coming. I was also starting a new job next week (SECOND job ontop of my primary job) and I didn't want to do any work unless they were going to finish everything. They said everything will be finished we'll just make a payment plan for you, come in. So I come in and they take out ONLY my upper teeth and tell me that they aren't going to do the lower teeth until the payment is paid. Luckily I recorded the phone call. So they went and did the lowers the NEXT day, however; this Dentist did NOT study his X-Rays because he was quite shocked when he found impacted teeth inside my lower jaw that had never grown in. Instead of consulting an Oral Surgeon, he tried to pull them... and on my lower right jaw he literally pulled "something" out of it that he had to stitch back up then my entire literally my entire front jaw COLLAPSED as in, its no longer even there..and it BLED like nothing I've ever seen before and then the numb wore off and I felt UN-EXPLAINABLE dimensions of PAIN. I cannot explain how bad that hurt it made a dry socket feel like a bee sting compared to an alligator bite. This Dentist became VERY worried and tried to suture up my lower jaw and couldnt stop the bleeding and he slapped the lower denture ontop of it and told me it would stop the bleeding and I told him the pain meds he was giving me before were not strong enough. He acknowledged and said he would give me something stronger. I went home with the SAME prescription (Hydrocodone) and it did NOTHING for the pain. I called the dentist back, no answer. I started beating on walls and tearing up furniture and I had blood oozing out my mouth and I eventually had to rush to the emergency room who said my jaw was excessive swelled even for the amount of work that was done. They tried to slow the bleeding but were unable to. I kept finding my mouth filled with gobs of blood so I went to the emergency room again, still nothing they could do. The dentures were extremley loose and also extremely painful, I don't mean uncomfortable I mean painful enough where my lower jaw was literally able to put me into shock so I was forced to take the lowers off...and then I saw his work for the first time.
The area where my two front teeth used to be, the entire area is GONE..and there's a hole there leading inside my jaw oozing blood, alot of my lower jaw is either missing or spongy like there's no bone. There are BONES sticking out of my LIP, not my gum, or jaw, but my LIP. Then I went to see the Dentist per appointment on Monday and he wasn't even there, he left some associate who had never even seen me before, didnt know my name or my dental record to perform my post op...I declined to allow her to touch me. I went to an Oral Surgeon and he did an X-Ray...he found out that I STILL HAVE 4 IMPACTED TEETH IN MY LOWER JAW that this dentist didn't ever tell me about. He said my dentures will NEVER FIT while they're still in there and they have to be surgically removed. He also found open incisions the dentist left open that he had to fill with a gel pack and re-suture up my entire lower jaw and that finally stopped the bleeding. He said the dentist never should have attempted to put those dentures in without first having those impacted teeth removed by an oral surgeon.
Now.. my entire lower jaw is BUTCHERED. I can barely talk
I have absolutely no teeth in my mouth.
I will need bone grafting to rebuild my upper jaw.
noone knows what bones those are sticking out of my lip.
I still need several surgeries before I wiill beable to be functional at work or to even be able to eat again.
My primary job put me on disability and my secondary job is expecting me to start next Monday but my oral surgeon said its going to be awhile before I will be able to work again and I am going to lose my second job ontop of everything Ive been working for.
The DENTIST is now being very evasive. He wont send in my dental records, he keeps saying that he needs to speak with the oral surgeon and he needs to know why I need them ect. I reported him to the Board of Dentistry but that isn't enough I need him to pay for these dentures he sold me that aren't going to fit, I also need him to pay for all the lost time I have been off work, I need him to pay for the second job I lost thanks to this and all of the pain I've experienced. It's been a week now and I am still on pain killers around the clock.
I need prayer because I am vulnerable and am at risk of losing everything because of this.
First I need to tell you alittle back story about myself.
I am not a standard dental case nor am I really a normal person or anything close to that,
When I was conceived my mother was taking prescribed steroids (before prednisone became a medical treatment) as she was dealing with socradosis. The doctors nor herself were not aware that she was pregnant and was giving her pretty heavy doses. The doctors eventually found out and when they did they highly recommended aborting me because I was going to cause her severe complications, but I slipped into another stage right before they could do it.
I was conceived with a lot of issues, one of them being I had about 10 teeth in my mouth and 4 of them were impacted inside my jaw. (Most babies are not born with teeth). They removed about 3 of those teeth. As I grew older, my teeth didn't develop properly. Mainly, there is a shield around our teeth called enamel that keeps are teeth protected from bacteria, and pretty. My enamel did not develop at all so instead I was left with bare exposed bone. I was very heat / cold sensitive and VERY prone to tooth decay. Regardless of how much I brushed, my teeth just went on a speed trip of literally rotting in my mouth.
All throughout school most people thought I didn't brush as my teeth ALWAYS appeared yellow, they were very crooked, I had MORE teeth than an average person should have, many were impacted and I carried atleast half of my baby teeth into my adult years. I was VERY insecure about my smile / my teeth in general and have felt that it is one of the biggest reasons I have not been able to date in my life. I have read in dating forums and dental forums alike what girls really think of bad teeth and dating and was quite surprised by how shallow most girls really are. All of my dates have been online and they have all ended in disaster and lately I haven't really cared much for romance.
For years and years since I was a child me and my family have been looking for a way to fix my teeth. Dentists would either be too afraid to touch me, or charge us to clean them then refer me to a periodontist who says before he can touch them he needs an orthodontist to work on them who says before he can touch them he needs a periodontist to do this first and all the oursoucing and going back and forth between multiple dentists has literally costed us TENS of thousands of dollars and it eventually came to a point where it REALLY didn't look like a dentist could fix my teeth without costing me over hundreds of thousands of dollars and Im not exaggerating, I have spent atleast $50,000 on my mouth before my most recent operation.
Finally what happened was my teeth began to grow painful abscesses, mainly my molars. At the time I didn't have a job or insurance so my only hope was to burst them. I had cavities so deep I could stick a toothpick all the way into my root. When I finally did start working I was over-encumbered with the standard life expenses and didnt have the money to even dream of taking care of this and its been a BIG worry of mine until one day I felt un-explainable amounts of pain that literally put me in tears (and I am a guy that handles pain very well, I broke my left knee and laughed while the doctors put it back together).. That tooth had to be pulled, pulling it wasn't an issue but the dentist told me what my options for fixing my teeth were. ALL of my teeth were beyond repair, root canals, crowns, none of that would save them. I got a second opinion and they agreed. My only hope was dentures or implants. Because the amount of work that was needed in surgeries and extractions... It was going to cost a MINIMAL of $40,000 for just cheap throw on dentures. and about $80.000 for implants. I have tried the options of medicaid financing, I did not qualify (I have heavy amounts of student loans on my credit.) I tried government grants but that required me to go to THEIR dentist.. and their dentist did not feel comfortable with touching my teeth so that also did not work.
I found a dentist who was going to beable to replace my teeth in the ball park of $10,000, expensive but compared to the alternatives cheap..
We worked out a payment arrangement of which would have spread the work out between June and September. I also had insurance helping as well. So what happens is on my first visit they needed to get my impressions for my dentures but one of my teeth was blocking them so they scheduled to removed it along with 4 other teeth. INSTEAD they ended up removing about 10 teeth and his excuse was, some of them were in the way.
Removing 10 teeth put us WAY ahead of schedule by about 3 visits and atleast 1 month so I ask him if we're still okay financially and he says yes everything is fine so we proceed with the next extractions. This guy ends up pulling 4 impacted wisdom teeth, 2 impacted molars and 2 additional molars as well as a few other teeth where as several dentist have said the impacted teeth needed to be serviced by an Oral Surgeon, including this very dentist. I bled, alot..and I was in alot of pain and I had to miss work for about a week and a half. I managed that though.
Finally he sends me to another office for my post-op visit and this office has no idea of my financial arrangement and basically says I really only have 1 more visit left. Note that not even a full month has passed since the first extractions. I ask them how much I have to pay them and they ask if I can just bring in $1,200. I say thats fine and I came back in 2 weeks with $1,200 and they take it. I'm ready for the final bit of work to be done and instead the dentist tells me that the dentures arent ready yet and they need to retake my impressions and send them to the lab. Well Im prepared to leave and the receptionist asks me if I was paying anything today and I told her I thought we were done (note that I have care credit and insurance also helping with this) and she says I owe them $3,000!! While $3,000 in itself is not a shocking number to me, the issue is they took all my teeth out saying I didnt have to pay ANYTHING and willingly did the work then they stop me at the very end with a $3,000 bill while I have almost no teeth. I only had my front teeth uppers and lowers remaining at that time. I was pissed but I told them I would need a month.
A month passes and my scheduled visit is coming up, life happened and I was only able to save $1,000. They call me to confirm if I was coming in. I told her I didn't have the $3,000 so no I wasn't coming. I was also starting a new job next week (SECOND job ontop of my primary job) and I didn't want to do any work unless they were going to finish everything. They said everything will be finished we'll just make a payment plan for you, come in. So I come in and they take out ONLY my upper teeth and tell me that they aren't going to do the lower teeth until the payment is paid. Luckily I recorded the phone call. So they went and did the lowers the NEXT day, however; this Dentist did NOT study his X-Rays because he was quite shocked when he found impacted teeth inside my lower jaw that had never grown in. Instead of consulting an Oral Surgeon, he tried to pull them... and on my lower right jaw he literally pulled "something" out of it that he had to stitch back up then my entire literally my entire front jaw COLLAPSED as in, its no longer even there..and it BLED like nothing I've ever seen before and then the numb wore off and I felt UN-EXPLAINABLE dimensions of PAIN. I cannot explain how bad that hurt it made a dry socket feel like a bee sting compared to an alligator bite. This Dentist became VERY worried and tried to suture up my lower jaw and couldnt stop the bleeding and he slapped the lower denture ontop of it and told me it would stop the bleeding and I told him the pain meds he was giving me before were not strong enough. He acknowledged and said he would give me something stronger. I went home with the SAME prescription (Hydrocodone) and it did NOTHING for the pain. I called the dentist back, no answer. I started beating on walls and tearing up furniture and I had blood oozing out my mouth and I eventually had to rush to the emergency room who said my jaw was excessive swelled even for the amount of work that was done. They tried to slow the bleeding but were unable to. I kept finding my mouth filled with gobs of blood so I went to the emergency room again, still nothing they could do. The dentures were extremley loose and also extremely painful, I don't mean uncomfortable I mean painful enough where my lower jaw was literally able to put me into shock so I was forced to take the lowers off...and then I saw his work for the first time.
The area where my two front teeth used to be, the entire area is GONE..and there's a hole there leading inside my jaw oozing blood, alot of my lower jaw is either missing or spongy like there's no bone. There are BONES sticking out of my LIP, not my gum, or jaw, but my LIP. Then I went to see the Dentist per appointment on Monday and he wasn't even there, he left some associate who had never even seen me before, didnt know my name or my dental record to perform my post op...I declined to allow her to touch me. I went to an Oral Surgeon and he did an X-Ray...he found out that I STILL HAVE 4 IMPACTED TEETH IN MY LOWER JAW that this dentist didn't ever tell me about. He said my dentures will NEVER FIT while they're still in there and they have to be surgically removed. He also found open incisions the dentist left open that he had to fill with a gel pack and re-suture up my entire lower jaw and that finally stopped the bleeding. He said the dentist never should have attempted to put those dentures in without first having those impacted teeth removed by an oral surgeon.
Now.. my entire lower jaw is BUTCHERED. I can barely talk
I have absolutely no teeth in my mouth.
I will need bone grafting to rebuild my upper jaw.
noone knows what bones those are sticking out of my lip.
I still need several surgeries before I wiill beable to be functional at work or to even be able to eat again.
My primary job put me on disability and my secondary job is expecting me to start next Monday but my oral surgeon said its going to be awhile before I will be able to work again and I am going to lose my second job ontop of everything Ive been working for.
The DENTIST is now being very evasive. He wont send in my dental records, he keeps saying that he needs to speak with the oral surgeon and he needs to know why I need them ect. I reported him to the Board of Dentistry but that isn't enough I need him to pay for these dentures he sold me that aren't going to fit, I also need him to pay for all the lost time I have been off work, I need him to pay for the second job I lost thanks to this and all of the pain I've experienced. It's been a week now and I am still on pain killers around the clock.
I need prayer because I am vulnerable and am at risk of losing everything because of this.
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...I smile back but but deep inside me yayyy 
