$10,000

Today I took Harry to the dentist. He broke a tooth about a month ago and he has been having issues with it and also having issues with a back molar. Harry has no insurance so we knew this might be costly but it's something you have to do. They had no problem pulling the back molar but with the front tooth, it was not savable so they would have to pull it and we didn't want him to have this hole there so we discussed our options on how to fill it.

We had two... we could pull the tooth and Harry could get a temp tooth that would only be for ascetic purposes or he could get a permanent tooth. If we went with the temp only it would be about $5000 to pull both teeth and make the temp one. If we went with the permanent tooth it would cost $10,000 to pull both teeth and file in the hole with cadaver crushed tooth so it would not heal over and make it easier to put in the post to hold the permanent tooth and of course this would take months to do so they would have to make a temp tooth anyways for the time being.

Well I'm not a rich man but knew we had to do something. So Harry and I talked it over and he will have both teeth pulled and will fill in the front one and prepare for the permanent tooth and will make the temp tooth. If he doesn't mind having the temp tooth we may just keep that. Or in time when funds are back up we might go ahead with the permanent tooth since it's all prepped and ready.

So to make a long story short this first visit to the dentist is going to cost us $5000.00 and if we decide to go back and get the permanent tooth that will be another $5000.00. And that is just for one tooth. And people wonder why so many folks have bad teeth.. It’s the cost plain and simple.