DUmmies Discuss Dentistry For The Destitute

[Doc]

DUmmy VBN has an ironic problem: He's a DUmmy with impacted wisdom teeth. Something called a "wisdom" tooth just seems totally out of place inside a DUmmy mouth. Doesn't make sense. I guess it's sort of like how a chicken never makes a wish, but it has a wishbone.

Very_Boring_Name  (806 posts)     Sat Apr-09-11 05:17 PM
Original message
Has anyone here ever had to get a wisdom tooth pulled, but been unable to afford it?
I'm 23 and no longer on my parent's dental insurance, one of my wisdom teeth is coming in all wrong and its INCREDIBLY painful. I have no insurance, and NO money.

 
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x854066
I suggest anyone who needs teeth extracted fire off a PM to DUmmy ThomWV. Not only will he take care of the problem, but you'll come away with some unbelievable one-of-a-kind custom jewelry.

SheilaT  (1000+ posts)      Sat Apr-09-11 05:26 PM
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14. Emergency rooms are not dental clinics.
Not a good idea at all

DUmmy ReturnoftheDjedi, another in that select group of DUmbasses who misspelled their username during registration, has a really DUmb idea:

ReturnoftheDjedi (489 posts)      Sat Apr-09-11 05:19 PM
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2. you can get on your parent's insurance until you're 26 now because of Healthcare Reform.

Something tells me muslimcare isn't going to take care of this DUmmy's throbbing teeth.  
 

pnwmom  (1000+ posts)      Sat Apr-09-11 05:19 PM
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3. Someone I know had extensive dental work at a University's Dental School.
A student dentist did the work, under the supervision of a faculty member. It was free.

And while you are in the chair, you can get a real fine haircut, too.
 

Cronus Protagonist  (1000+ posts)      Sat Apr-09-11 05:22 PM
Response to Reply #3
8. I did that!
Had fillings, crowns, braces and so on at UCLA's dental school. The work was passable and the most important thing is that the pain stops and the problem is solved. It's not free there, but if what you need is part of a student's test matter, you can get it done free.

formernaderite (1000+ posts)      Sat Apr-09-11 05:43 PM
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21. excellent suggestion
used them years ago myself. I had a painful wisdom tooth for years.... also no money. Unless you have an abscess... it won't kill ya.

 
Yeah, DUmmy, suck it up. Quit being a whining ***** about it.

By golly, DUmmy JVS's brother is no *****:

JVS  (1000+ posts)        Sat Apr-09-11 05:21 PM
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5. My brother had a similar situation.
He filed down the tooth himself.

  

pnwmom  (1000+ posts)      Sat Apr-09-11 05:23 PM
Response to Reply #5
9. Ugh -- but that won't work with an impacted wisdom tooth.

  

JVS  (1000+ posts)        Sat Apr-09-11 05:26 PM
Response to Reply #9
15. It depends on how it's impacting.
In my brother's case, the teeth were hitting above the gum line.

DUmmy JVS's brother is no *****, but he sounds as ugly as an Oklahoma Packer.


DUmmy Cleita takes time out from pissing contests all over the DUmp to prove she may be a female, but she isn't a *****:

Cleita  (1000+ posts)        Sat Apr-09-11 05:21 PM
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I had mine removed with pliers by my dentist and they cost $10 each and that was fifty years ago. However, I don't recommend it. Although if you are close to Mexico you might be able to get them removed for a lesser cost than here in the USA as well.

The $10 special was with pliers, no anesthetic, no sterilization, bring your own cotton balls.

htuttle  (1000+ posts)      Sat Apr-09-11 05:23 PM
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11. Tried stopping in at any public hospital ERs yet?
They don't do teeth (and will tell you so), but if you think you also have an infection of any kind (additional swelling, etc...), they will set you up with some antibiotics and possibly a prescription for some halfway decent pain pills.

 

Now you're talking! Here we go! Someone finally understands what the OP is all about!
 

Rex  (1000+ posts)      Sat Apr-09-11 05:24 PM
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13. I had all my wisdom teeth yanked out at once in the Army.
Bled like a stuck pig for 2 weeks. Sadly, that is the only way I know to get it done for free.

I knew a veteran of WWII who claimed that before shipping out to the South Pacific he got in trouble for refusing to have ALL his teeth pulled. He claimed they did it to lots of guys who had more than a couple of cavities that needed filling. Anyway, he got the fillings and ended up on Guadacanal.

JVS  (1000+ posts)        Sat Apr-09-11 05:58 PM
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24. You might want to PM PCIntern about this. He works in that field.

Again, ThomWV is a much better choice. A lot more experience extracting teeth than the Philadelphia janitor.

[franksolich]

Uh oh.

A chance for franksolich to display some blatant self-promotion.

http://www.conservativecave.com/index.php/topic,27817.0/

"back porch dentistry," about the time I had a Greek plumber yank out my wisdom teeth.

True story, but I kept getting interrupted while I was writing it.

[Vagabond]

Okay, let me explain it to this penniless, young DUmmie.  JVS needs to open a phone book to yellow pages and look up Dentistry.  Then it needs to call local dentists during normal business hours and see what they will offer to perform the tooth extraction procedure.  He will find a few that will either do it at cost or take him on as an indigent case within the hour.  Not because the dentists are leftists, rather they are not heartless.

Seriously, why is this idiot posting this on the internet.  It's not like DU can offer any viable medical advice.

[dandi]

A couple of Navy dentists took mine when I was twenty. They weren't bothering me, but I'm sure the Navy knew they would one day and probably at a time when I couldn't afford to have them pulled.

It's so nice to have someone looking out for your best interests that way. Thank you, Navy.


 

[thundley4]

A couple of Navy dentists took mine when I was twenty. They weren't bothering me, but I'm sure the Navy knew they would one day and probably at a time when I couldn't afford to have them pulled.

It's so nice to have someone looking out for your best interests that way. Thank you, Navy.


 

They left mine in they haven't ever bothered me.

[franksolich]

They left mine in they haven't ever bothered me.

Let's cut through the bullshit, though, sir.

The primitive's not interested, not interested the least, in solving the problem permanently.

Since when has a primitive wanted a problem solved permanently?

The primitive's interested only in, as all primitives are, getting some drugs.

Yank the teeth, no more pain.....and hence no more drugs.

No primitive wants that.  No way.

[Evil_Conservative]

Set up a payment plan, idiot.

I had a tooth that was really bugging me during my whole pregnancy, but was told they (dentists) couldn't do anything about it until AFTER the baby was born.  No problem.  I'll just suffer for the last six months of my pregnancy.  By that time, I had to have a root canal.  It sucked.  We do have dental insurance, but it didn't cover all of the work.  I was set up on a payment plan and was able to pay off my dental work and be pain free. 

But then again, I do understand the DUmmy mentality.  Everything needs to be free.  Or payments?  Are you serious?  I'll just stiff the dental office.

[Boudicca]

Okay, let me explain it to this penniless, young DUmmie.  JVS needs to open a phone book to yellow pages and look up Dentistry.  Then it needs to call local dentists during normal business hours and see what they will offer to perform the tooth extraction procedure.  He will find a few that will either do it at cost or take him on as an indigent case within the hour.  Not because the dentists are leftists, rather they are not heartless.

Seriously, why is this idiot posting this on the internet.  It's not like DU can offer any viable medical advice.

Fixed it for ya!

[BEG]

Set up a payment plan, idiot.

I had a tooth that was really bugging me during my whole pregnancy, but was told they (dentists) couldn't do anything about it until AFTER the baby was born.  No problem.  I'll just suffer for the last six months of my pregnancy.  By that time, I had to have a root canal.  It sucked.  We do have dental insurance, but it didn't cover all of the work.  I was set up on a payment plan and was able to pay off my dental work and be pain free. 

But then again, I do understand the DUmmy mentality.  Everything needs to be free.  Or payments?  Are you serious?  I'll just stiff the dental office.

I had an abscessed tooth (left upper molar) when I was 7 months pregnant with my first child. I was visiting my parents for Christmas. She called my dentist I had when I was a child at 5 am. I was absolutely miserable all night long, didn't sleep at all. It had been bothering me on and off for months but not too terrible, then BAM it hurt like nothing I had ever experienced before.  

He met us in his office right away. He called an endodontist and he got me in right away too. He did the root canal and left it OPEN until I got home (my parents lived in Omaha, we lived in Phoenix).  He said he didn't want to put a temp in because the flight would bother it if all the infection wasn't gone. Good thing he didn't put the temp in because it took a couple visits back home to get rid of it.

Also, an odd side note. I wasn't born with molars. I found that out in my 30's when I got braces.  

[compaqxp]

I've never had a wisdom tooth pulled, they've never (yet) caused any issues.

A student dentist did the work, under the supervision of a faculty member. It was free.

This is the very thing I do when I need dental work. I'll make a reason to be in the city and I'll go to the university/dental school and get it all done for free.

[franksolich]

I've never had a wisdom tooth pulled, they've never (yet) caused any issues.

This is the very thing I do when I need dental work. I'll make a reason to be in the city and I'll go to the university/dental school and get it all done for free.

Notice, please, sir, the utter impracticality of the primitive advice, or most of it.

One of them suggests Mexico.

Like the primitive maybe lives in Detroit, and can skip down to Mexico any old time.

Another of them says, "Well, you can be covered by your parents' insurance now."

Whooop-dee-do.  Like one can get covered in a matter of hours, or something.

A third among them suggests a local dental college.

Yes, sure, that's good advice, great advice, but what if the primitive lives 500 miles away from the nearest dental college?  By all means the primitive should go to the local dental college.....if there is one.

This is a good illustration of the alleged virtuousness of the primitives; it "feels good" to offer advice, even if such advice is of no use to the primitive requesting it.  I have no doubt every single one of the primitives responding patted himself on the back, thinking, "I'm a good person; I helped somebody."

It's nauseous, when the primitives are that way.....which is nearly all the time.

If there is a dental college convenient to the primitive, that should be his first move.

If not, the primitive should contact his county or city department of health (NOT welfare, but health) for temporary assistance (the procedure may vary from state to state; that's what one would do in Nebraska) in getting dental treatment.

As a third resort, the primitive should open up the telephone book (or better yet, if possible, go to the offices in person) and contact dentists in private practice, to find if any of them are willing to give him a break.

And inbetweentimes, convenience stores sell some sort of numbing liquid, "Ambien" or somesuch name.

In the absence of the first option, I'm sure the primitive won't have to go any further than the second option, plus that gum-and-tooth-numbing stuff at the neighborhood convenience store.

Okay, franksolich gave eminently practical advice to a primitive in need.....but for some reason does not feel compelled to pat himself on the back, thinking himself virtuous for doing so.

[AprilRazz]

A couple of Navy dentists took mine when I was twenty. They weren't bothering me, but I'm sure the Navy knew they would one day and probably at a time when I couldn't afford to have them pulled.

It's so nice to have someone looking out for your best interests that way. Thank you, Navy.


 

Same here. Took all 4 while I was in boot camp.

[GOBUCKS]

The whole point of this thread is a DUmmy trying to figure a good scam to score an oxycontin script.

[BEG]

I had an abscessed tooth (left upper molar) when I was 7 months pregnant with my first child. I was visiting my parents for Christmas. She called my dentist I had when I was a child at 5 am. I was absolutely miserable all night long, didn't sleep at all. It had been bothering me on and off for months but not too terrible, then BAM it hurt like nothing I had ever experienced before.  

He met us in his office right away. He called an endodontist and he got me in right away too. He did the root canal and left it OPEN until I got home (my parents lived in Omaha, we lived in Phoenix).  He said he didn't want to put a temp in because the flight would bother it if all the infection wasn't gone. Good thing he didn't put the temp in because it took a couple visits back home to get rid of it.

Also, an odd side note. I wasn't born with molars. I found that out in my 30's when I got braces.  

Doh, I meant wisdom teeth. 

[GOBUCKS]

Doh, I meant wisdom teeth.

That's nothing. Poor Mr. Loopner (God rest his soul) was born without a spine.

[Evil_Conservative]

I had an abscessed tooth (left upper molar) when I was 7 months pregnant with my first child. I was visiting my parents for Christmas. She called my dentist I had when I was a child at 5 am. I was absolutely miserable all night long, didn't sleep at all. It had been bothering me on and off for months but not too terrible, then BAM it hurt like nothing I had ever experienced before. 

He met us in his office right away. He called an endodontist and he got me in right away too. He did the root canal and left it OPEN until I got home (my parents lived in Omaha, we lived in Phoenix).  He said he didn't want to put a temp in because the flight would bother it if all the infection wasn't gone. Good thing he didn't put the temp in because it took a couple visits back home to get rid of it.

Also, an odd side note. I wasn't born with molars. I found that out in my 30's when I got braces.   

You're lucky they let you come in.  I called quite a few offices and they all refused to see me until after I had Carleigh. 

[true_blood]

Very_Boring_Name  (806 posts)     Sat Apr-09-11 05:17 PM
Original message
Has anyone here ever had to get a wisdom tooth pulled, but been unable to afford it?
I'm 23 and no longer on my parent's dental insurance, one of my wisdom teeth is coming in all wrong and its INCREDIBLY painful. I have no insurance, and NO money.

I suggest a job. If you have a job, then use your credit card. Credit card all maxed out? I suggest a little sacrifice.