Not worried about the actual work but the possibility that I may never have it completed.
In a VERY long summarized story, my mother was taking doctor prescribed steroids during her conception with me for a medical condition she had, Socradosis. The doctors didn't know she was pregnant, I was born out of the womb with nearly a full set of teeth, 4 of which were impacted.
Fast forward 10 years down the road... My enamel was abnormally weak and brittle across all of my teeth. By age 15 all of it decayed, no enamel whatsoever left. My teeth were now bare, and rough and incurred serious decaying issues as well as bone loss. Also most of them were crooked and in short spent 10's of thousands of dollars among dentists trying to correct the issue but most did not want to touch me and referred me to another dentist or another specialist and generally it lead to alot of confusion between multiple dentists as to what needed to be done to correct my mouth...and absolutely nothing but a few cleanings were achieved
By 22 I began having abscesses in my molars
By 27 I began having excruciating pain from multiple teeth along with these abscesses and began having extractions done.
Consulting among multiple dentists, all agreed my teeth were beyond repair and my best option was either dentures or a full mouth set of implants... issue is, the implants were going to cost over $80,000
Medical nor Dental insurance did jack about covering any of it.. and I did not qualify for a care credit loan... so I was on my own and the abscesses kept coming until I finally made the decision to just accept Dentures...
I had ALL of my teeth pulled but the dentist didn't tell me about several impacted teeth in my lower jaw that he thought he could just put dentures over... my lower jaw COLLAPSED -- the dental bone literally is now divided into two halves, one on each side of my cheek and almost nothing in the center.. I can push my tongue straight to my lips with absolutely impeding it.
Due to the severe bone loss and especially the impacted teeth, the dentures did not work. The Dentist should have referred me to an oral surgeon who could have told me the effects the impacted teeth would have had on dentures before yanking all my teeth out... I got an attorney but he basically is doing absolutely nothing about it as its too complicated of a case.
I am losing bone...and FAST... I have been without teeth for 7 months now, and my lower jaw is very brittle.
Oral Surgeons are telling me my only options at this point are implants as I do not have enough bone to support dentures. They also have to regraft my lower jaw after pulling the impacted teeth out.
In short... I am still looking at $80,000 ... just to emphasis as to how hopeless I am feeling about this situation -- After this happened, literally 2 weeks after the extractions I managed to find a second job. (I had been looking all year but one finally came to past.) I was working two jobs and making 6 figures and even at that rate I still had absolutely no chance at footing the dental bill along with my house, car, utilities, and student loans (whom refuse to defer over the situation.)... and the 2 job deal didn't work long, someone found out about my second job and became jealous and in short got me fired.
Anyway what are my options, is there any thing else I can do?
I really want my mouth fixed.
I can show photos of my mouth if necessary but I will warn it does not look pretty so I won't post them unless it is condoned.
In a VERY long summarized story, my mother was taking doctor prescribed steroids during her conception with me for a medical condition she had, Socradosis. The doctors didn't know she was pregnant, I was born out of the womb with nearly a full set of teeth, 4 of which were impacted.
Fast forward 10 years down the road... My enamel was abnormally weak and brittle across all of my teeth. By age 15 all of it decayed, no enamel whatsoever left. My teeth were now bare, and rough and incurred serious decaying issues as well as bone loss. Also most of them were crooked and in short spent 10's of thousands of dollars among dentists trying to correct the issue but most did not want to touch me and referred me to another dentist or another specialist and generally it lead to alot of confusion between multiple dentists as to what needed to be done to correct my mouth...and absolutely nothing but a few cleanings were achieved
By 22 I began having abscesses in my molars
By 27 I began having excruciating pain from multiple teeth along with these abscesses and began having extractions done.
Consulting among multiple dentists, all agreed my teeth were beyond repair and my best option was either dentures or a full mouth set of implants... issue is, the implants were going to cost over $80,000
Medical nor Dental insurance did jack about covering any of it.. and I did not qualify for a care credit loan... so I was on my own and the abscesses kept coming until I finally made the decision to just accept Dentures...
I had ALL of my teeth pulled but the dentist didn't tell me about several impacted teeth in my lower jaw that he thought he could just put dentures over... my lower jaw COLLAPSED -- the dental bone literally is now divided into two halves, one on each side of my cheek and almost nothing in the center.. I can push my tongue straight to my lips with absolutely impeding it.
Due to the severe bone loss and especially the impacted teeth, the dentures did not work. The Dentist should have referred me to an oral surgeon who could have told me the effects the impacted teeth would have had on dentures before yanking all my teeth out... I got an attorney but he basically is doing absolutely nothing about it as its too complicated of a case.
I am losing bone...and FAST... I have been without teeth for 7 months now, and my lower jaw is very brittle.
Oral Surgeons are telling me my only options at this point are implants as I do not have enough bone to support dentures. They also have to regraft my lower jaw after pulling the impacted teeth out.
In short... I am still looking at $80,000 ... just to emphasis as to how hopeless I am feeling about this situation -- After this happened, literally 2 weeks after the extractions I managed to find a second job. (I had been looking all year but one finally came to past.) I was working two jobs and making 6 figures and even at that rate I still had absolutely no chance at footing the dental bill along with my house, car, utilities, and student loans (whom refuse to defer over the situation.)... and the 2 job deal didn't work long, someone found out about my second job and became jealous and in short got me fired.
Anyway what are my options, is there any thing else I can do?
I really want my mouth fixed.
I can show photos of my mouth if necessary but I will warn it does not look pretty so I won't post them unless it is condoned.
