I haven’t had teeth in over 10+ years. I avoid mirrors, hide my smile, and struggle just to eat. I’ve saved $15,000 on my own — but I can’t finish this without help.

Dear Kind-hearted Donors,

My name is Tamilynn and I am a 64-year-old woman who is facing a challenge that has deeply affected my life. I am reaching out today because I desperately need your help in getting dental implants, a procedure that could transform not only my appearance, but my ability to live a normal, healthy life.

For many years, I have struggled with severe dental issues that eventually led to the complete loss of my teeth. What most people take for granted — simply eating a meal — has become painful and frustrating. I can no longer enjoy the foods I once loved, and even soft foods can be difficult at times. Smiling, which used to come naturally, is now something I avoid. I often hide my face, avoid mirrors, and withdraw from social situations because of the embarrassment I feel

This has affected more than just my physical health. It has taken a deep emotional toll on me.There is a quiet loneliness that comes from feeling like you have to hide yourself from the world. I miss laughing freely, smiling without thinking, and simply feeling comfortable being seen.

Dental implants are not a cosmetic luxury for me — they are a necessity. They would allow me to eat properly again, improve my health, speak clearly, and restore my confidence and dignity. They would truly give me my life back.

Unfortunately, I live on a fixed income, and this life-changing procedure is far beyond what I can afford. I have spent years saying and have managed to set aside $15,000, but I still have a long way to go. I have explored every option available to me, but nothing has been enough to make this possible on my own.

My total goal is $45,000, and I already got off to a good start thanks to years of saving. With your help, I truly believe this is possible.

I’m not getting any younger, and I would love the chance to enjoy life again while I still can.

If you are able to give — even a few dollars — it would mean more to me than I can ever express. Every donation brings me one step closer to being able to smile again without fear or shame.

Thank you from the bottom of my heart for taking the time to read my story. Your kindness, compassion, and generosity truly have the power to change my life.

With deepest gratitude,
Tamilynn

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Hi My name is Maria, and I am writing to respectfully request financial assistance for urgent dental care that has become medically necessary due to complications from a prolonged illness. in 2020, I experienced kidney failure, with my kidney function dropping to just 5%. I underwent dialysis for three and a  half years  while waiting for a transplant .during that time, although my teeth were initially healthy, the prolonged dialysis treatments and their effects on my body caused severe deterioration of my dental health. My teeth began to rot, break , and fall out. in 2023, I was blessed to receive a kidney transplant, and I am grateful to say I thank God, and I am grateful to say doing well in that regard. However, the damage to my teeth has continued to worsen. after being evaluated by a dental professional, I was informed that my upper teeth are severely decayed and must be removed to prevent serious health complications. unfortunately, my current government insurance only limited dental services and does not cover the cost of dental implants, which I urgently need  the total cost of the treatment is approximately $20,000 an amount I simply cannot afford. I am currently on disability due to lupus, and other ongoing medical conditions, which prevent me from working  because of this, I have no way to cover these expenses on my own. Every day, I struggle with pain and basic functions like eating every day. thank you for taking the time to read my story I appreciated  God bless you sincerely, Maria.. My cashapp is  $SpoilBrat1942

My name is Luke im 26 years old and a recovering addict clean from heroin and meth since October 25th 2018. I work a full time job. Im single and live alone. Due to my past addiction my teeth were destroyed and with no dental insurance throughout the years they’ve only gotten worse. Recently a friend surprised me with a paid dentist visit where I was given a dental examination. I have multiple cavities and gingivitis along with 12 extractions I need done. Ever since the visit my teeth have been hurting every day from the dental workers messing with my teeth and opening up sensitive areas. I hate asking for help I’ve been on my own since I left rehab in 2019 and I don’t believe in taking money from people but I feel like this is more of an emergency situation because ive been told if this is prolonged anymore I may have more serious consequences or even death. I was given a referral to have the 12 extractions done. I called the place I was referred to and they told me it would cost anywhere from $4,800 to $9,600 depending on the difficulty of the procedures. I’ve sinced called around to different locations and got different quotes and I’ve found one company in a bordering state that will do the extractions for $1200. Im only asking for help to have them pulled not replaced and repaired. Anything would help i just desperately want the pain to go away. The hardest part is knowing I know how to get the pain to go away instantly and temporarily and I fight those demons daily not to go back to that lifestyle so please help me stay afloat. God Bless.

I don’t believe in taking money for free so with every donation please put a prayer in the notes I could pray for you. Thank you.

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My goal: $1200

 

My name is Cheryl, and it is very humbling for me to ask for help like this. I have always tried to manage my responsibilities on my own, but I am currently facing a painful dental emergency that I cannot afford to fix by myself.

I wear a partial denture, not full dentures. Recently, the metal clasp on my partial broke unexpectedly. When it snapped, the exposed metal wire pierced my tongue. It was extremely painful and caused an injury inside my mouth. Since then, the partial no longer fits securely. It shifts when I try to eat and rubs against the injured area, causing ongoing discomfort.

Because of this, eating has become difficult and sometimes painful. I avoid many foods because chewing is uncomfortable and I am afraid of making the injury worse. I find myself choosing only very soft foods just to get by. Something as basic as eating has become stressful and discouraging.

In addition to the pain while eating, my partial now shifts and sometimes lifts when I speak. It can unexpectedly move or “pop up,” which is embarrassing and makes me very self-conscious in conversations. I find myself covering my mouth or avoiding talking as much as I normally would. This situation has affected not only my physical comfort, but also my confidence and daily interactions.

This is not about cosmetic work. This is about being able to eat properly, allow my tongue to heal, maintain good nutrition, and live without constant discomfort.

Eight years ago, when I first received my partial denture, it cost $1,500. I understand that dental costs have increased since then, and I have been told that replacing a partial denture can range between $2,000 and $3,000 depending on the work required. This includes a dental exam, impressions, lab fabrication, fittings, and necessary adjustments. Because of this, I am setting my fundraising goal at $2,500 to help cover the estimated cost. If the final amount is lower, any remaining funds will go toward follow-up dental care.

I am a hardworking woman, and it is difficult to ask strangers for help. But right now, I am in pain and struggling to do something as basic as eating comfortably.

Any donation, no matter the amount, would go directly toward replacing my broken partial denture. Even sharing this campaign would mean more than you know.

Thank you sincerely for taking the time to read my story. Your kindness could truly help restore something simple yet essential — the ability to eat, speak, and live without daily pain.

With gratitude,
Cheryl

my cash app is:  $chyatt209

 

My name is Michelle, and asking for help like this is one of the hardest things I’ve ever had to do. But I’ve reached a point where I can’t fix this on my own, and I’m hoping that someone out there might be willing to help me reclaim my health, my smile, and my future.

Why I’m Asking for Help

I need extensive dental work—full All‑on‑4 dental implants with zirconia, extractions, and sedation. After multiple consultations, the most reputable and medically attentive clinic quoted me $48,000 for everything. It’s a staggering amount, but it’s the only option that will stop the infections in my mouth and restore my ability to live and work without constant pain and fear.

My Health Journey

About 17 years ago, my health began to decline, and it has been a long, exhausting road ever since. I’ve been diagnosed with Psoriatic Arthritis, Fibromyalgia, Severe Obstructive Sleep Apnea, Raynaud’s Syndrome, Metabolic Syndrome, High Cholesterol, GERD, Barrett’s Esophagus, a Hiatal Hernia, Anxiety, Depression, Burning Mouth Syndrome, and chronic dry mouth. These conditions have taken a toll on every part of my life—including my teeth.

Dental issues don’t get the same support as medical issues. Medicaid helped me survive, but it doesn’t cover the kind of dental care I desperately need. Over the years, the infections and damage have only gotten worse.

How I Lost Everything—and Fought My Way Back

For six years, I could barely work. Some days I couldn’t get out of bed for more than ten minutes because of the pain and exhaustion. I applied for disability and was denied repeatedly. I drained my retirement savings just trying to survive. Eventually, I had to sell my home. My son stepped in and used the proceeds as a down payment on a house we could share. Without him, I would have been homeless.

I applied to thousands of jobs from 2020 onward—literally thousands—and heard nothing back. No calls, no interviews, nothing. I was penniless, terrified, and hanging on by a thread. My family kept me afloat when I couldn’t keep myself afloat.

A New Beginning—But One Big Obstacle

After years of trying, I finally found a job. I start on February 3rd, 2026, and I’m so grateful for the chance to rebuild my life. It’s a sales position, which means I’ll be speaking with people all day. I want to show up with confidence, health, and dignity.

But my oral health is failing fast. The infections in my mouth are dangerous, and every dentist I’ve seen has told me the same thing: implants are the only way forward. If I don’t get this done soon, the infection will spread, and I’ll lose the ability to work again. I’m 57 in June, and I’m scared of what will happen if I can’t get this taken care of.

What I’m Asking For

I’m not asking for help with my credit cards or my bills. I’m not asking for a bailout from past mistakes or hardships. I’m asking for help with one thing—the one thing standing between me and a real comeback:

A healthy mouth. A healthy body. A chance to work, to smile, and to live without constant pain.

Why This Matters So Much

I want to show my children—and my granddaughter—that I haven’t given up. That even after everything, I’m still fighting. I want to be able to smile in photos again. I want to speak without embarrassment. I want to stay healthy enough to keep the job I worked so hard to get.

If you’re able to help, even a little, it would mean more than I can ever express. You wouldn’t just be helping me get dental implants—you’d be helping me reclaim my life.

Thank you for reading my story, and thank you for caring.

With all my heart,
Michelle

My PayPal link:  https://paypal.me/purplegirl2019

Growing up in homelessness and extreme poverty carries a lifetime of disadvantages that extend far beyond what most people can see. One of the most profound — yet often overlooked — impacts of childhood poverty is the complete lack of access to basic healthcare, especially dental care. When someone’s first dental visit does not occur until they are 29 years old, it is not simply a matter of neglect or circumstance; it is evidence of systemic hardship, generational deprivation, and the long-term consequences of survival-based living.

Dental implants would not be a luxury for me — they are a medical necessity and a deeply compassionate investment in restoring health, dignity, and opportunity. Childhood poverty often means unstable housing, lack of nutrition, chronic stress, and exposure to unsafe environments. All of these factors dramatically weaken dental health from the very beginning. Without routine cleanings, preventative care, or even the knowledge that dental health matters, treatable issues become severe over time. Cavities turn into infections, infections become extractions, and by adulthood, many teeth are beyond saving. This isn’t the result of personal choices — it is the result of being denied resources that every child deserves.

When a woman spends her childhood worrying about where she will sleep, what she will eat, or how she will stay safe, dental care becomes an inaccessible dream. Survival is the priority. Many families facing homelessness cannot afford toothpaste, let alone a dentist. By the time I reached adulthood, the damage was already done. Seeing a dentist for the first time at 29 years old means decades of untreated issues accumulating silently and painfully. Now, in adulthood, I face the physical repercussions: difficulty eating properly, chronic pain, self-consciousness, and an increased risk of overall health problems, since poor oral health is linked to heart disease, systemic inflammation, and depression.

Dental implants would give me back the ability to eat without pain, speak without embarrassment, and smile without fear. They would allow me to pursue job opportunities with confidence and to engage in daily life without shame. For someone who has already overcome the trauma of homelessness, surviving against the odds, being able to reclaim my health is not simply cosmetic — it is restorative.

Donations toward my dental implants are not just funding medical treatment; they are helping correct a lifetime of inequality. They are giving a woman who has fought through unimaginable hardship a fair chance at health, stability, and self-worth. After enduring so much without support, I would be so grateful to be offered the opportunity to finally receive compassionate care and a renewed sense of dignity.

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Hello! Im needing help to fix my natural teeth. I need a lot of work to correct bad crowns and damage from lifetime teeth grinding. I weakened my teeth through years of opiate addiction following losing one of my sons and deep depression, but now I’m going on 10 years clean and sober and work in addiction treatment helping others get their lives back in order! I love it!

I could go further in my career and also be pain and shame free with a chance to repair my teeth. Estimate from dentists is about $20k.

Thank you for reading, have a wonderful blessed day!

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Hey y’all… I really didn’t want to make a post like this, but I’m going through it right now. I’m 27, diabetic, and trying to take care of my 2-year-old, and I’ve been dealing with really bad dental pain. I just got told I need about $15,000 worth of work, and I don’t have the money or insurance to even start. The pain and embarrassment of it has been heavy on me. If anyone is able to help, even a little bit, it would truly mean so much. You can send anything via PayPal at paypal.me/erydadonn. Thank you to anyone who reads this.

 

 

In my panic and discomfort when drafting the previous post that I submitted I completely forgot to include my paypal.me link. I wish this could be blamed, somehow, on the curr3ent state of my teeth, but alas it can only be attributed  to my discomfort in asking for help in this way and my hurry to try and get it over with as quickly as possible. I didn’t edit, proof read, RE-read, or even spell check my previous submission and just typed it up, hit the button, and tried to concentrate on anything other than having just picked up a digital cardboard sign “Will do anything for dental work.” Well, lets get the situation rectified and hopefully it will endear someone to my plight and I can get some help, but really some relief.

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I never went to the dentist as a kid. My mother was a single mother to my brother and myself and it was just too expensive. I also never went to the doctor unless bones were broken, and I can clearly remember how angry my mother would be during these few and far between visits. Most of the time we were subjected to home remedies, and confined to bed rest until we were able, or the malady lessened sufficiently to justify going back to school or what have you. I did make it to the dentist once when I was a child, I took a header into my Grandmothers old school solid wood coffee table and broke the entire top row of teeth and was given silver teeth as a replacement.

I was also a touring musician in a punk rock band for the majority of my late teens and 20s. Suffice to say hygiene was not as high on the list of priorities as food and gas, and of course beer. Dental hygiene was non-existent. When the band broke up and I found my way back home, my absentee father had decided that the timing of child support no longer being necessary was a perfect time to start building a relationship with his kids, and seeing the state of my teeth, took me almost immediately to the dentist. It was a good experience. we got about half of the entire treatment plan done, which worked out to half of my entire mouth and cosmetically I felt better, but the continued treatment was laden with caveats by my father, one of which was traveling 800 miles to his dentist, and the other being all sorts of adherence to lifestyle changes that I felt had nothing to do with my teeth. and even less to do with building a relationship, and the dental work was never finished.

So I have spent the next 20 years living my life, doing my best, but never quite getting that job with the great health insurance that covers dental, or the income necessary to be able to afford the luxury of returning to the dentist. A combination of lifestyle choices, lack of income, lack of housing, and other trials and tribulations has led me to my current state. A broken. discolored and fractured smile. non-existent back teeth. or molars, my wisdom teeth being removed when my father took me to the dentist. So i have the entirety of my top teeth broken and fractured, no back teeth. and living everyday in considerable pain and not being able to eat anything that has a consistency above rice pudding, or soggy cereal.

It has led to an inability, either through distaste. embarrassment, or both, in getting employment. Severe depression and a level of fear bordering on obsessive paranoia that my teeth are going to kill me, due to the reoccurring abscesses so close to my brain, and the links between gum disease and heart attacks. I have sequestered myself away from the rest of the world, have no friends, and little to no family left other than my brother and my father, to which I am currently estranged for many reasons that I’ll not go into here.

I am in need of anything, anything at all that can help me with my teeth. I would take dentures, implants, even some veneer caps that cap your existing teeth and are a completely cosmetic and non-permanent solution but would help in the moment, and are considerable cheaper than many of the other options. However, I have been told that my mouth is no longer fixable and that I would need to completely replace my teeth in their current state and that dental implants would be the only and best option for long term stability and health. This also happens to be the most expensive, and given my lack of human interaction, internet side hustles and remote work barely pay my bills let alone are sufficient to the ability to save money to try and pay for them myself, or buy dental insurance, or even to try and finance the procedure.

So, having found no other recourse, I have made my way to this site in the hopes of a good Samaritan reading my plight, taking pity, and giving me the financial support necessary to changing my life with what I have come to recognize as a single day procedure that would not only change my life, but what might just save it. I don’t really know what else to say here, that wouldn’t be misconstrued as pandering, begging, manipulation, or playing upon sympathies. which I am not the greatest at. and I just happen to find reprehensible. Hopefully, this will result in something, but I hold very little hope and even fewer expectations. So. if you read my lament then thank you for spending the time. and if you find yourself in the position to be able to help you will find no one more appreciative and, hopefully, worthy.

Eating yet another meal of mashed potatoes….

My (Soulmate) Wife of 16 years passed away on October 6 2025.
I’m totally devastated emotionally and financially. I’m 74 years old and  physically handicapped. Today I just realized that I’m going to be over $700.00 in the hole after all expenses. I’ve never done anything like this before. I also have broken teeth that are causing pain. I had to spend all my savings to pay for her cremation. My car insurance premium has gone up after taking her off of the policy. Anything you can give would be greatly appreciated. Medicare doesn’t cover dental. I can’t afford dental work and don’t know how I’m going to make ends meet. Thank You and God Bless You for reading this.

Hello everyone,

My name is Eric, and I’m reaching out for your support to help me finally get the dental work I desperately need. After years of hardship, including three years of homelessness starting in 2018, I’m on the cusp of turning my life around—but my dental health is holding me back.

In 2018, my life took a devastating turn when I became homeless. For three long years, I struggled . During that time, I experienced severe dental issues, including multiple root canals that were never properly completed. A kind donor stepped forward and offered to cover the costs to get my teeth fixed, giving me a glimmer of hope. Unfortunately, they had to withdraw their support unexpectedly, leaving me with uncrowned root canals that have caused ongoing pain, infection risks, and a smile I’m ashamed to show.

I’m proud to say I have a steady job and health insurance. However, life threw another curveball when my roommate suffered a major stroke. I’ve been supporting them through recovery, which has drained any extra income I might have had. My insurance covers some basics, but the out-of-pocket costs for crowning those root canals, along with other necessary repairs, are simply beyond my reach right now—estimated at upwards of $40000 which I will never be able to afford.

With damaged teeth and an incomplete smile, I’ve been limited to behind-the-scenes roles that don’t allow me to interact directly with clients or colleagues. Restoring my smile would boost my confidence, improve my speech and appearance, and open doors to better opportunities that pay more and offer stability for both me and my roommate.

This isn’t just about teeth; it’s about reclaiming my dignity and stepping into the life I’ve fought so hard to achieve. With your help, I can finally close this chapter of unfinished business from my homeless days and focus on building a sustainable future.

What Your Support Will Achieve

• Immediate Dental Work: Funds will go directly toward crowning the root canals, preventing further complications, and any additional treatments recommended by my dentist.
• Career Advancement: A confident smile will help me pursue front-facing jobs, leading to higher earnings and long-term financial independence.
• Transparency: I’ll provide updates on my progress, including dental appointments  milestones. Every donation, no matter the size, brings me closer to this goal.

My fundraising target is $40000, which covers the procedures, any follow-up care, and a small buffer for unexpected costs. If we exceed the goal, extra funds will support my roommate’s ongoing recovery needs.

If my story resonates with you, please consider donating today. Sharing this campaign with your network could make a huge impact too—every share brings more eyes and potential support. Together, we can turn years of struggle into a story of triumph.

Thank you from the bottom of my heart for your kindness and belief in second chances. Let’s restore my smile and unlock the next chapter!

With gratitude, Eric

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Hello I was attacked at work back in October my job refused to help or pay me compensation or any type of workers comp. I was throwing out the trash and was attacked i deeply damaged both of my ankles and my right knee had my head slammed into the dumpster multiple times, besides a concussion and constant pain and confusion I get headaches daily in the process of my face being slammed the dumpster knocked out a lot of my front teeth from the dumpster opening slide door. I don’t know what to do my family friend told me about this and I hope and pray from the bottom of my heart for help in some way to start healing or at least being able to have a better chance having teeth not only for the obvious to eat but to be able to show my face in public. I was fired and haven’t been able to work and know no job interviewer would give me a second thought given how I look. Thank you sincerely for any help

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