Hello, my name is Heather.  I am doing the one thing I had hoped I would not have to do – ask for help.

I am hoping and praying by reaching out for the help that I will be able to get the dental work I so desperately need.

I have suffered for years with severe acid reflux, and despite the prescription medication my doctor prescribed to help reduce the effects, it has damaged my teeth so incredibly that I am in constant severe pain and they have literally been decaying and breaking off.   

I have to take antibiotics for the infections, as I wait to get enough money to pay my portion of the bill.  I have also been on a waiting list for different programs that help people that can’t afford dental care.  Which can take up to a year.

I have had these issues since 2012 and ended up getting a hiatal hernia repair back in 2013 but unfortunately the surgery didn’t last very long.  I have been having issues with acid reflux for the past few years.

The reason I have not been able to get the care I needed to solve the acid reflux was losing my insurance for a while and by the time I got it back the covid had just hit so that wasn’t a priority and then moving from one county to another caused delays in my new insurance and primary care physician.   

Thankfully I have been referred to a specialist to have additional testing done to find out the underlying cause of my acid reflux and I am hopeful that the team of specialists will be able to help me treat this condition in a more effective manner.

I was told by my dentist as a result of having such severe acid reflux for such a long period of time dentures have become my only option.

I am disabled and am on a fixed income with social security. I do however receive Medicare and the majority of the cost of this will be covered under my policy.

I will need to pay $518.35 out of pocket to have the necessary work done.  Being on a fixed income leaves me very little to no extra money to pay

this amount.

I would greatly appreciate any help anyone can give me in meeting this financial goal. I will be so grateful to be able to get back to eating solid foods and being able to chew.

It is so important to me, from a personal aspect, to be able

to get the dentures – I have been blessed with  6 amazing grandchildren and I would love to be able to attend their school functions and extracurricular activities while feeling confident in myself and smiling for pictures. I am forever grateful to any help anyone may be able to provide me.

Thank you.

MiMi Heather

https://www.paypal.me/HeatherE631

I just want to thank everyone who took the time to look at my post. The pictures you see above are pictures of me before I lost my top teeth.

My name is Azure, and I’m 32 years old. I have always had problems with my teeth. I got my braces in 6th grade and kept them until I was a junior in high school. After I got them off though, everything went down hill from there. My teeth began breaking, and cavities began coming up everywhere, it was horrible. I inherited weak teeth from my mother, one day she bit into a piece of pizza, and one of her front teeth just came out, root and all. Anyways, when I graduated from college with my BS IN Education and was able to get a job as a middle school English teacher working in intervention, one of the first things I done was go to a dentist, and talk to them about what options I had at this point because I was tired of dealing with all the cavities and broken teeth. I didn’t want to get dentures because at the time I was only 26 and I just felt I was too young to be able to take my teeth out. We eventually came to the agreement that we needed to pull my front 6 teeth, because when I smiled that was all that you could really see and get implants. The dentist basically remade my front 6 teeth, making them much bigger, straighter and as white as they possibly could without making them look fake, and in those picture above, that’s what I ended up with. I loved them. Everybody noticed, gave me compliments, I couldn’t quit smiling. I thought it was the best thing I ever could have done.

Fast-forward 3 years – I noticed that these teeth that were suppose to last me were lose. I could move them back and forth with my tongue, I knew something was not right. I went back to my that dentist, and boy was he mad. He never told me what exactly was wrong, he just yelled at me and told me over and over that I ruined a good thing. He then told me, that they would eventually just fall out.. and there was nothing he could do beside go ahead and pull them on out. He also said he would began working on a new dental plan for me.. well I didn’t even think about money or how much more this procedure was gonna be, all I could think about was me being toothless at 29 years old. That was something I didn’t even want to think about especially after I had already spent $7000 on teeth that were suppose to last much much longer then only 3 years.
Around this time, my mother got diagnosed with cancer – stage 4 – it started out in her colon, and had already spread to her liver and lungs, the doctor gave her 2 months from the time of her diagnosis. This was one of the toughest times of my life, so I took a leave of absence from the school ( it was May, so school would soon be out for summer) and agreed to come back in August the next school year. I spent the summer with my mother, every minute I could. My dad mostly took care of her, but i down what I could to help. At this point, my daughter was 5 or 6 and nothing made my mother happier then to see her granddaughter. July rolled around, and my mother  was able to get out so I took her to the nail salon to get her nails and toes done. She laughed and smiled and enjoyed, but after that day, she seemed to go down hill; and she passed away August 15 – I’m not too sure what happened with me but I shut down, I started drinking way way more then I ever had, I fell into a deep deep depression, and then I got my first dui, lost my job, lost everything, the duis just kept coming and before I knew it I had four – I was lucky enough for my lawyer to get them down to three 1st offense duis and one 2nd – threw all this – my teeth were getting more lose but still intact. I was very careful what I ate and how I ate because I didn’t want them to come back it and it had been a year since I had even went back to my dentist, but I decided finally to call him. I spoke to his wife and she told me she was going to talk to him about my dental plan and she would give me a call back that next morning and give me prices. Next morning rolls around – she calls me and tells me that the new plan was a bit pricey but with the periodontitis I had there was no other options: the price she gave me was comical. $13,500 😬  I didn’t even know I had periodontitis, they never informed me of that, and I’m sure the best bet was for them to not even put the ones they did in, because they knew what would happen, they’d fall out. This dentist was trying to make as much money off me as possible. I told his wife there was absolutely NO WAY I could afford that. Now remember my teeth were still intact at this point so I had some time before they came out to figure something out.

Those teeth stayed in for about another 3 years, but during this time my life just kept going downhill. My older brother who was 5 years older then me passed away at 32 from sepsis August 27, two years later. Same month as my mother. I never dealt with my grief, and I had to actually go do weekends at the county jail for a passed dui, and at this time I had actually been working at a upscale hair salon so I doing okay, but I just hated the thought of having to go to jail for the weekend, so what do I do, I go take 16 blue xans, five 800mg Gabapentin – and no I was not trying to hurt myself or kill myself – I knew I had high tolerance so I took a few so I could sleep the weekend away and ended up overdosing on accident. I woke up with a ventilator down my throat in the hospital. I thank god everyday he left me here to take care of my daughter, and to watch her grow.

Let’s fast forward again to 2019 – I was sitting in the floor with my daughter and I had got some cupcakes and told her we could eat them when I got home, I bit into the  cupcake, and boom, put came the right side of my implants leaving a huge gap in my mouth. I immediately went to my dentist, and he pulled the other side out – but he stuck to that same price that I can not afford. It’s been a little over a year since my teeth came out. It has hurt my self confidence so much. I mean I went from having three perfectly white beautiful teeth to nothing. When I meet new people, especially guys, I cover my mouth when I talk, if we make plans to meet for the first time – I tell him this story ( of course a shorter version) before he even meets me. I do have a little money saved because I did find a place that does implants and they will work with their clients. In June, I went and had the rest of my top teeth pulled so I could get a implanted denture. I’m going to go over to my other dentist, the one that put the first ones in and get those teeth so they can make my new ones look identical to what I had. My first consultation for the implants is Sept 1, 2021 – not that far away. I only have $700 dollars saved but even with them helping me I don’t think it will even put a dent in it. So anything at all would help me ..

I will post a picture of me that I took yesterday at church. My face has not changed shape at all yet, but I’m so scared that if I don’t get something done soon, it will. I still have every single one of my bottom teeth though. Isn’t that crazy?! I want to be able to not cover my mouth when smile or talk to someone. I want that confidence back. Teeth has always been a big thing to me. In my opinion, your teeth can make you or break you..

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Struggling with periodontal disease has been the worst for me. I will no longer have the smile i deserve. Unable to live my life comfortably because this disease eats away at my gums and bones which can lead to heart and lung disease. Insurance doesnt cover cosmetic procedures which means veneers or any sort of dental work in relation to cosmetic will cost way too much for me to be able to afford. My dad struggles with heart failure which means i am the only one working. Paying bills, rent, daily necessities is overwhelming as i can barely afford just that. Im not sure what else to do. Any thing will help and bring me a step closer to my goal. Please and thank you. I have attached the bill from my dentist to show proof that this is something i will need.

Hello.. I’m Michelle, a 46 yesr old single Mom of my Beautiful 17 year old Daughter.  In 2011 I was injured at work which has required 4 wrist surgeries along with 1 Torn Rotator Cuff Surgery.  On my last wrist surgery I had in 2014 I knew immediately something was not right when I woke up. I felt like someone had Literally poured gasoline on my arm/hand and lit it on fire.
Finally after thousands of hours of researching myself and seeing a Neurologist at the Dayton Neuroscience Institute I was diagnosed with an Auto Immune Disorder called Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS).  It’s an abnormality in the Peripheral and Central Nervous System where chronic burning/pain which is normally triggered by an injury or trauma to that area.  With all the medications I have to take it has caused me to now have Xerostomia which is where your mouth doesn’t produce as much saliva  because of the medications so ultimately your teeth start to break and decay and weaken.  I am in dire need of having the rest of my teeth pulled as the infections are affecting my health negatively now as well.  I have gone to 3 Dentist’s as of Date with my treatment plans starting at $13,000 all the way up to $52,000.  I’m on Full Social Security Disability with Medicare Dental Coverage of $1,000 max annually.   I had two teeth extracted which wiped out the Dental Coverage in 1 appointment…

I have avoided smiling/pictures or anything that would show the now huge gap between my front teeth because they’re so loose along with the 5 missing teeth due to extraction over the past year.  It’s become difficult to eat normal foods as well.

My Daughter will be a Senior in High School  this year and I pray for nothing more than her to Graduate with Excellent grades and myself be there to see it and smile my biggest grin with a pretty smile.  I would love to be and feel myself again as my quality of life has depleted tremendously since being diagnosed with CRPS, and to the fact of always hiding behind my hand or turning away.  I want to be able to take pictures with my Daughter and Smile and laugh like we used to… I’m praying day in and day out I’m able to receive a new smile.  Thank you in advance for reading and am grateful Beyond words for any help that I may possibly receive.

Thank you

paypal.me/Mlew1322

 

Hey my name is Misty I just turned 31 years old May 23 and this birthday was one of the better ones I’ve had unlike the onevi had when I was 25, that’s the day my whole life changed. I woke up like usually  got showered and ate breakfast and started getting ready for my BIRTHDAY because that night I was having a small party with my friends and family some of which i hadn’t seen in 5 years of more.  I was so excited I remember I got the cutiest outfit shoes and was having a great hair day *(Georgia weather and curly hair)* don’t always work together especially in summer time 😁 so anyways everything was going good 6 pm everyone started showing up  . I was having a fun time enjoy hanging out and seeing friends and family was just a blessing in it self . Well it’s about 10 pm now I just blew out my candles open a couple of gifts and was finishing up the night taking pictures with everyone saying good bye when all the sudden a loud speeding music blaring came zooming past my drive way and turned into the house across the street it was my neighbor and he and his friend apparently were having there own party and were totally wasted, no big deal I thought well I continue to say my thanks and goodbyes when I had to run outside because I heard glass shattered and cursing and yelling to realize that a fight had broken out between the neighbor and his friends about something stupid still to this day I don’t know what it was all I know in the next couple mins my life was going to changed forever anyone that knows me  knows I’m anti violent and don’t like being around or apart of it. Well as I walked over to see what was going on I see the neighbor picking some dude up and spamming him into the windshield of there cars. I was horrified and my first reaction was to run up and grab the guy elbow which he was over 6 ft tall and over 200 lbs when I am only 5ft 120 so when I grab his elbow he threw his elbow back and bam my face was hit he thought it was someone else and thought someone else was trying to fight him.. well I went 11 months thru pain to finally get my teeth remove and denture inserted but it’s been about 7 year now and I still can’t eat normal and there’s got to be something more permanent more functional. And something to me feel beautiful again

paypal.me/mistyxo2021