As a toothless and broke person this got me good. Been a while since I’ve been this personally attacked.
If you can’t find a cheap or available option try contacting a local college of dentistry. Honestly, they’re always advertising free or low cost dental care here.
Yes and please make sure you get it checked out! It may seem like a non-issue (just minor pain, etc) but if it ever gets worse the damage is likely going to become permanent and your quality of life with no teeth/extreme toothache is a lot lower than you might think.
Source: my dad and uncle neglected their teeth and its becoming a bad issue now
Not even that, your teeth are linked in with your vascular and nervous systems. It may seem like a none issue now but it could lead to neurological issues or sepsis.
Not to mention the other problems it can cause.
Ten years ago when I was even more broke than now and didn’t have any affordable options, I would put off going to the dentist if at all possible.
This lead to two tooth abscesses that spawned a third one in my throat. I was in the hospital for two weeks, one of which I spent in the ICU on a respirator since the growing abscess was pushing on my trachea.
If not for the near-universal single payer healthcare here in Denmark, I would probably either gone to the hospital too late and died or been in crushing debt for that hospital visit for the rest of my life even if I lived to be 100 years old.
Then again, if not for someone’s idiotic idea of not including dentistry when they set up the single payer system way back in the 60s or 70s, I would have been able to afford taking much better care of my teeth and never would have been in that situation to begin with.
For cleaninga - Dental hygienist schools always I mean ALWAYS need patients. They have to find them to graduate…
For cavities/ pain - Some local community health departments have low cost / sliding scale dental health care. Call your local health department
Source - wife is a dental hygienist and worked in public health
This. They just need you for a follow-up visits, since they get graded on how mow complete the procedure was done.
Unfortunately, dental works are of those kinds where everything takes multiple sittings.
I’m currently living through my most stessful week of my life: About a year and a half ago, I bought a plot of land with the project of building a home there, inflation and loan rate kicked in, so I thought “alright let’s wait a bit see when it stabilizes”, this week I learned my plot is planned to be removed from the “buildable” area. If I don’t put a building permit to the city council before this is voted my land will basically see it’s value divided by 20 and I won’t be able to build a house there, I put 6 years of savings into this project… all because my gov decided that they didn’t want this area to be urbanised anymore.
I have trouble sleeping and working I can’t think of anything else, I also lost my appetite.
Oh no!
I’m guessing plopping a manufactured (mobile) or tiny home (shed) there wouldn’t tide you over…(?)
Good luck 🤞
Canada just released its timetable to phase routine maintenance dental care into a consolidated health plan.
It’s starting small, but if our Republican wanna-bes don’t kill it we could have universal coverage and equal access to dental care regardless of economic station.
Everyone deserves free healthcare and dental, I pray you get to see that dream.
The provincial conservatives where I live are trying their best to destroy that universal healthcare. It’s rather infuriating.
I bet, I’m just glad to see areas of the world have it. Gives a little hope to some of us in the states.
Hopefully the conservatives in your area aren’t the majority.
This might sound scary, but try holding ice cold water in your mouth. I had an infected tooth and that made it feel SOOOO much better until I could get it fixed.
May or may not help your situation, but if it hurts as bad as mine did, you’re probably willing to try anything.
I had an abscess under a tooth many years ago, and the only thing that helped the pain was to chew ice and pack the resulting slush in between the gums and cheek where that tooth was.
It wouldn’t do anything for a minute, then suddenly the pain would just turn off. It was great.
