My Dentist must be Rich
Stopped by my dentist’s office today because she’s been talking about all the work I’ll need done on my teeth, and I just had a few questions to ask her about it before I’d actually agree.
My teeth don’t look that bad; it’s not like they look rotten or something, but I’m actually missing a tooth on the back upper right and one on the back lower left from years and years ago when I didn’t have a dental plan and couldn’t afford a root canal. Yes, pull it, I said – each time.
That’s not the work I need done though. What I need done is to have my teeth made bigger. And why would I want bigger teeth? I don’t necessarily want bigger teeth. However, my dentist wants me to have bigger teeth because she says my teeth are too small to be able to put a bridge in where those missing teeth are.
My teeth are not only small because I’ve never had big teeth, but because over my 53 years, I’ve managed to grind my teeth every night in my sleep. I guess I’ve done a lot of grinding, because they are very small (too small to be able to create a bridge).
So after finding out all the details today, I guess I’m going to go ahead with it, if her facts are straight. If her facts are straight, my dental plan would cover about $6000 of the cost. That means that there would be $5000 left for me to pay out of pocket. And that whopping $11,000 for my teeth would create bigger teeth all over my mouth… wouldn’t just want a willy nilly big tooth here or there. She said we could pay for this over 3 years at approximately $150/month.
That’s a big expense for someone like me. Someone like me who runs into her overdraft every month because she doesn’t make enough money. However, I can’t help but think that I’ve got to do this now while I still have a dental plan, because when I’m old, with no plan and my teeth are falling off in pieces because they’re all cracked, WTF am I supposed to do then?
This would also make my teeth even whiter because you can choose whatever colour teeth you want. So I could go ridiculously white if I wanted and look like a TV star – an aging, ugly, decrepit TV star with a nice white smile.
I’d have to have ‘temporary’ teeth for a while – 3 years worth as she uses up what she can use of my plan each year. So the only thing I could hope for is that I continue to be employed for at least 3 years, and that she’s absolutely sure that my plan DOES cover this work. I want confirmation of that from somewhere – she said she checked my plan.
So boys and girls, that’s the next big thing that’s going to happen in the Jafer household… big, bold, beautiful (white) teeth. Wow, $11,000 for teeth when I need a new car.
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is the new 30. I want the world to close their mouths when they’re eating or chewing gum. If they don’t, I want to elbow them in the face.
Wow. Sounds like a lot of work but if it makes you happy…
Would an implant here and there work in place of an entire bridge? I ask because I had a molar implant put in some four years ago and to be honest, it took a long time to get to the actual tooth in place part (about 10 months) but I hardly ever, EVER, think about it now. That’s how comfortable it became and how natural it looks and behaves.