i have not been to a dentist in probably 10 years

i went this week to a new dentist. she is so hot, and so is the dental assistant. and i'm fucking sitting there with my mouth open, gums out, drooling all over the place.

you should have made your desire for them a little less obvious

bahahaha

It's been a good 4+ years for me. I'm finally seeing a student at OHSU day after tomorrow. I take good care of my teeth but they feel a little achy overall...

hey people in the US/AUS,

if you need a lot of dental work done, like over $1000, we have found a really good dentist here in Cusco (Peru). A round trip for two weeks from the US is around $700. I just got a new crown for $80 (!) and three fillings for $100. That would have been around $1200 from my dentist in the states. So even with the plane ticket you come out ahead.

that actually sounds kind of fun. take a vacation to peru, get all your dental work done and then blow the money you saved on a good time.

that's what I'm sayin! I'll be happy to give the info to any interested parties, the dude is a total professional.

wehre did he go though, peru dental school?

looks like it, yeah. he's got a bunch of diplomas etc on his wall.

my gf is there right now getting two new crowns put in.

wow you guys are just goin crazy

^^^ this is pretty common, btw. def knew ppl that went to like costa rica for dental work, cuz it was cheap and you got a vacation out of it

i went to the dentist a few weeks ago after....2 years? 28 years and still no cavities, suckas. the dental asst said i brush too hard, maybe :-/

ohh yea like the enamel is wearing off? i've started to think about that too lately -- i can be kind of an excitable brusher

i am going to the dentist.
my tooth BROKE!!!!!
there was an old filling that was always strange. i felt a tiny crack in it last week and then sunday the back corner FELL OFF. WTF?
estimate for crown is $$$$$$ i am screwed.

shit i wanna go to peru for this stuff! sister is there now, i'd have a place to stay.

Double extraction tomorrow. One of 'em is a molar split in half. The other is a supernumerary. VICODIN WEEKEND!

i wish there was a way to get vicodin out of this.

instead all my student loan $ for the semester will go to paying it off instead of redecorating my house :((((

girl, i feel your pain. i'm sorry. but this will make you stronger.

fucking better

you'll at least get hydrocodone tza. V expensive hydrocodone.

for a crown?

eastern europe is the big destination for dental holidays here. sofia is the most common spot, i think. will do it some day, just get them all ripped out and replaced clark gable stylee.

well, if the tooth broke im assuming root canal but i could be very wrong

also, sedation dentists will give you valium the night before your appt and a whole cocktail of benzos to take on the day

actually not sure a root canal is necessary bc of the way the filling is there. god, i hope a root canal is not necessary.... al;ksdgj :(

just dont become the guy my dentist told me about who started knocking his teeth out for the codiene/benzos

it might not be. im no dentist.

it won't be. root canal is for decay, usually, no?

oy valium

i actually am in possession of some valium but valium is no vicodin.

prague is apparently a top destination for cheap dental work too - by best friend and her husband took a 'dentistry' holiday their awhile back.

i love how everybody's known all about these dentist holidays and i never had a clue

right? i love multitasking! i should have been on this.

its like the old days when women went to some alpine spa in europe to have a little work done. that always sounded like fun to me.

it won't be. root canal is for decay, usually, no?

not always they can also be done for cracked teeth and when i had a tooth knocked out i had to have a double root canal done because of the infection.

also tza you may not want to read this but i had to have the procedure done w/o any anaesthetic becuase the infection made it ineffective and it was, by a really wide margin, the most painful moment in my life

i do not think it is infected. that is why i am getting it taken care of NOW.

way to turn it back into a nightmare thread lamp eugh

omg lamp :(

yeah the valium is probably not worth the price of the sedation dentist. My guy stopped what he was doing with me once to go bid on a $450,000 dining table + chairs on ebay.

As it turns out, I have gum disease and need $400 worth of scaling. : (

were your gums bleeding?

(are)

dear presidetn obama,
pls to give me healthcare soon.
<3,tza

xpost: no, it's not that bad yet, but there's plaque under my gum line.

tbh i have not been to a dentist in a long time and i'm scared they're going to tell me my whole mouth needs to be replaced for the sum of $569,399.45

me too- hence prague dreams of when i'm rich.

if you pay upfront they might take off $99.45

o-rnaldo bama

is the tooth/filling old enough that you might have had a root canal and forgotten? it is unusual, although not unheard of, for teeth that are still alive to break. once you have the RC, that's when they start getting brittle.

I have had three teeth break, all had RCs. now I have nightmares about it.

the nyu college of dentistry might be cheaper than a regular dentist

I have had one root canal. It was totally painless and I got no painkillers for it afterward.

Coincidentally, I had to visit the dentist this morning. She wanted to get a better xray of the area under my gold tooth. There's a dark spot under the roots. She said it could be scar tissue from the root canal (best case) or a cyst or an abscess. I had the root canal 4 years ago, so I'm hoping it's scar tissue. If it gets worse, they may have to redo the root canal or if it gets really bad, operate. For the time being, she's just going to xray it once a year.