My dental work is half done!

Brittanie · #1 July 14th, 2010, 02:00 PM

My dentist divided my mouth into four quadrants when we began all my extensive work. Well, as of my 3 fillings yesterday, my lower jaw is completely done! Now I just have all the fillings in the uppers jaw. It'll take 2 appointments on the left side and one appointment on the right. Hopefully I can get them knocked out quickly and that will get rid of the one real excuse I have keeping me from TTC right now. After that it'll just be convincing DH.

I'm feeling pretty good about things right now!

luvmykids623 · #2 July 14th, 2010, 02:05 PM

Yay for being half way there! How is your mouth feeling? I feel like I live at the dentist sometimes.

brandimomof2 · #3 July 14th, 2010, 02:08 PM

I really need a lot of dental work and just cant afford it. My insurance is not that great. I hate the dentist so bad but really really need to go.

Yeah for you getting it half done. Was it painful?

Brittanie · #4 July 14th, 2010, 02:23 PM

One of the cavities was actually pretty deep, nearing root canal type deep, so it actually feels better today. My gums are pretty torn up though, so I can't eat anything hard. Luckily chocolate isn't hard. =�

Oh, and that deep cavity solidified my resolve to get it done ASAP instead of waiting until my insurance starts over again.

Brandi: you should look into care credit (CareCredit Healthcare Finance). It's like a credit card but it's for medical expenses and if you pay off your amount within a calendar year you don't have to pay interest. That's how I'm paying for all that I'm having done.

brandimomof2 · #5 July 14th, 2010, 03:50 PM

I have Care Credit. I used it for my dd's dental work but that dentist only did a 6mths interest free thing. I have most of it paid off already. I guess each dentist does it different on the delaying interest right? Not real sure since that was the first time we had used it. I just hate going into debt more for things. Trying really hard to get out of debt. I know my teeth are important though.

Brittanie · #6 July 14th, 2010, 04:16 PM

Yeah, I don't know how the promotions work, actually. Mine is a year, sucks you don't have that. I understand about the debt thing, that's why Matt wanted me to wait on the rest until January because our insurance pays 80% of fillings and since I'm now over my yearly limit, we have to pay the rest out of pocket. But...I just don't feel comfortable with waiting. I mean, we started last July and did 2 root canals/crowns and had to wait until January to do more and in that time I had a tooth go from needing a couple fillings to needing a crown. And I think another crown would be more expensive to us in the long run (not to mention more painful for me).

I'll be so glad when it's done!