sister needs dental help
 

sister needs help with dental work. insurance won’t cover any of it. every little bit helps, thanks.

go fund me page
https://gf.me/u/y6mnbv

Sorry to hear about this man, all the best, but may I suggest trying a Dental College for treatment? She may be able to get a significant discount on some of these procedures.

I don't know why insurance wouldn't cover implants (in this situation). Do they just argue for dentures instead? Insurance should at least cover the extractions.

Where do you live? I may be able to help

Yeah! CP has what, 3 dentists that post here regularly? Good idea Mr. Ocity

The amount of dental stuff insurance won't cover is kind of shocking.

99% of dental insurance is close to worthless, if you need anything major.

Must be a provider/plan thing. My insurance covers pretty much everything within reason.

For example, they'll cover a gold crown/cap 90% but a white crown/cap only 50% because they consider that cosmetic rather than functional.

I have a super expensive mouthpiece that I wear for bruxism and sleep apnea and my insurance covered 80% of it.

I've had several different providers over the years and was not impressed with any of them. I was squawking about it to a dentist and he agreed. He said the only dental insurance he had seen that was worth a damn, was some kind of military dental insurance.

I mean for something like a filling, it's fine, but if it comes down to something like an implant, grab your ankles.

I've had two root canals and two crowns. I've heard horror stories of people paying thousands of dollars but I paid a couple hundred total. :shrug:

Who's your insurance through?

If you have insurance and go to a provider for that insurance it’s will cover more. Most policies have a max they’ll cover so a root canal and a crown will probably max it out

When it comes to implants, most policies will cover the abutment and crown up to a certain percent but won’t cover the surgical placement.

I'll have to look it up.

In general, the medical plans in your industry provide significantly better coverage than others. I found this out a couple of years ago when I left my company. It was shocking to see what the most ppl were paying tbh.

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Hope you get your sisters mouth fixed up :thumb:

There have been three people donate. Which one are you?

We get one dentist to do the uppers and the other to fix the lower teeth.

The other dentist on standby.

she is in Lawrence. anything helps! thanks

why would i donate to her gofundme when i can just give it to her directly? dental insurance is a joke

Jesus, that sounds.... horrible.

Not at all intending to be rude or judgmental, but does she smoke? Or do drugs? I don't know how it could be so rough. I don't envy her situation at all.

never smoked, done some edibles and rarely drinks. always brushed her teeth from what i can remember when growing up. she has just for some reason always had problems with her teeth. i remember about 10 years ago she went for a check up at the dentist and the dentist told her “you have the teeth of a 90 year old.”

That’s a ways away from me

I’d highly recommend the dental school in Kc

no problem! thanks, i’ll let her know

edit: she just replied back there is a year long waiting list and she can’t wait any longer

Does she grind her teeth in her sleep? That would cause big problems down the road as she wears the enamel down.

I have super crowded teeth as well. Have to floss every day or develop issues. If I went a year without flossing, I'd be getting teeth pulled.

no clue if she grinds her teeth but would that result in having 28 teeth replaced? she said it’s about a 6 hour surgery and she is just wanting to get it done because the pain is becoming unbearable.

I know someone who needs extensive dental work due to chemo

I should start a go fund me page too

not everyone can come up with $20,000 out of pocket since insurance won’t pay. but hey, if being a dick makes you feel better, go for it!

I was in a similar situation about 9 years ago. I went to DDS in Liberty MO, they offered a credit card through Synchrony at the time. It was done in 1 day (although recovery took longer) and after some adjustments early on I haven't had any trouble, it is so nice to have nice teeth.

A friend of mine in California, simply made a appointment in mexico two years ago since he didn't have insurance.

You might look into las algadones. Just over the border from yuma. I can recommend several good dentists and oral surgeons. My parents have been going for years.

Roughly 30% of what it costs in the states. The equipment is dated a bit by American standards. Roughly 5 years older than what you would see locally. So 5 to 7 k for what she is looking for or roughly 2k for all the extractions and dentures

my sister in law in AZ does all of her dentistry in Mexico.

wasn't being a dick I was being serious

That's where my sister in law goes and she has no complaints, been going there over 30 years.

I had an implant done there and my dentist said it was very nice work.

i’ll suggest it to her. thanks to everyone!

Maybe Billay can help her get started in the glory hole business as a side hustle to earn some extra cash.

Someone donated $500 :eek:

This girl lived close to you?

uh she’s my sister.

Are you hot too?

We need a picture of her toofies to see if she is deserving.......

yeah.....i’ll get right on that

Lol

What makes it funnier us picturing your avatar saying it

My teeth are so screwed that I'm happy to wear a mask in public, and I would never start a go fund me page, lol.

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good for you. so how would you deal with the pain? she told me over the weekend it hurts worse than labor. how would you pay for it if insurance won’t cover it? just let the teeth rot out of your head? gofundme is there so people can get help. this was a last resort type thing for her. i sure hope you never get put out on the street or need some sort of medical procedure done you can’t pay for. guess she got the bad tooth gene in the family
never understand why people on the internet seem to have to chime in and be smart asses. if you don’t have anything good to say, don’t say anything at all. everyone hides behind a screen these days.

LMAO joey

Maybe get em all pulled and rock some dentures

Dude, start the damned gofundme.

I plan on it eventually. The only insurance I have is through Swope Health Care here in Kansas City and they can't get me into their dentist because of covid. Also the job I have right now frowns on taking time off during the day. When I was locked up my plan was to have them all pulled and get dentures from the prison but they pushed me off so long over and over that it just didn't happen.

Had a friend go to Albania to get 20k worth of work done for less than 3500.

Just curious. Why not just get dentures instead of implants? Way cheaper

Get some ****ing sleep, man.

I just have naturally sunken in eyes for some reason, it's part of being ugly. Between that and the bad teeth I look like a week old jack o lantern.

This is a great post.

Someone at Amazon posted that they would be willing to give 2-3 people free complete dental treatment of x-rays, cleaning and fillings as part of their graduation work at dental college. It was a full 3 hours you had to commit.

Not sure on advanced or serious oral surgery but you may get a break on that too.

I'm no dentist but I could give her mouth a filling

Lmao nice

Same here. I've spent about $6k out of pocket on my grill and still have the teeth of a meth head. Brother and sister have no dental problems at all and perfectly straight teeth.:mad:

I read about dental tourism in Croatia a few months ago. IF I can ever make it back over there, I'm going to consider it.

Or you could just go to Algodonnes Mexico right across the border near the California and Arizona border. Lots of snowbirds use Algodonnes for medical dental and Pharmacy

Can't speak for htmis, but I have Blue Cross Dental if you haven't used that.

She would walk away with nothing but a bad taste in her mouth.

One of my car clubs I belong to has a dentist who accepts whatever your insurance pays and if no insurance a minimum of a 50% discount on everything.

not sure the insurance they have. BIL is in the carpenters union in KC so it’s whatever they give him

I understand. I was just giving Bwana my insurance type, since he was asking htismaqe what his insurance was.

But yeah, I see where you're coming from your BIL's dental insurance that the company only give him the cheapest kind.

Yeah, that's what my wife's coworker's husband did.

He died 2 weeks later from an unknown bacterial infection that got into his bloodstream from the dental work. It was a horrific death. He basically swelled up so much that he popped, then his skin rotted off. His wife tried to hold his hand and the skin just pulled off in her hand.


Think twice about medical tourism. Say what you want about our prices here, but at least we are clean (generally) and have stringent standards.

I hope your sister gets the help she deserves so she can go back to tossing salads pain free.

Man, you seem like you are a really good dude. I knew you would chime in within the first five posts. I really enjoy your dental experiences thread. Love that thread. Moar tales of other people's suffering please.

Just my two cents, but nothing he said was towards you at all. He just said he wouldn't. He wasn't mocking you doing it.

eh he threw that little jab. just trying to help a family member out. shoulda known half the replies would be immature.

Here? should be 85%

Heres the deal. 28 extractions would be about $5k. A few minu implans on upper and lower plus dentures on top would be about 10k. Shed be good to go for $15k

so every dentist charges the same?

No. Some just rape you a little less on the price.

Thumbs downing posts isn’t going to get you funded mister!!!

You probably need to account for the portion that gofundme will keep as well

20k does seem quite high though

throwing sexual comments out doesn’t make you funnier either

for the people who don’t believe it’s $20k
pic is from her gofundme from today

https://d2g8igdw686xgo.cloudfront.ne...21831097_r.jpg

she also updated the gofundme to thank people who have donated.

Better make that $30K as she will have to pay taxes on whatever she gets.

Maybe a job, brushing teeth earlier in life, and less Meth(a lot less) would have alleviated the need to suck money from total strangers so her vanity can deal with her meth mouth smile when looking in the mirror.

Pisses me off she's getting free bandwidth on this forum.

lol yup. now if she graduated from Missouri maybe your reply would be correct

Pisses me off that you’re an asshole and giving bad advice on this forum.

The income isn’t taxable. It’s viewed as a gift from the perspective of the IRS for which no goods or services were exchanged.