Dear members
My name is Mag. I am a mother of 4 boys. We moved to the UK in October 2021. I work as a nurse. Before we came to the UK my elder son who is now 19years had an accident and fell onto his face and his front teeth all sank into his gums. This was corrected by pulling them out and they were fixed with braces. I received news of my new job with sponsorship after a few months of the surgery but not long enough for his review.
When we arrived in the UK getting a referral to the dentist was difficult. We asked our GP to refer him for possible removal of the braces but all his referral were rejected buy all nhs dentist. Meanwhile he began to have severe headaches and pain as part of the brace to the back of his tooth broke.This situation was now very worrying it was now over a year of back and forth with no help whatsoever.
When his headaches and pain became severe I took him to a private dentist who did x-rays and they revealed a new problem, he had puss under all the teeth and he aspirated most of what was around the teeth. This dentist informed us that he will need an operation can canal root tooth cleaning which he estimated over £600 for each tooth and 5 of them were badly affected. I did not have that kind of money. He also made the referral again to specialists and few months down the line we took him to London for another x-rays. The maxilofacial referral came back requesting atlest £6000 down payment to remove braces and then to do this canal root cleaning. This was a lot of money which our salaries combined would take years to accumulate.
This has been a very long nightmare which I have no idea how to solve. I ended up considering to travel back to Africa and get the braces removed which could be possibly cheaper but he is not able to travel alone due to his learning disabilities. Costs for 2 people traveling and surgery are not easy to accumulate.Now his pains and headaches continue I am getting more and more stressed but with the state of cost of living my hands are tight.
We have been managing him with antibiotics and analgesia recommended by the dentist until we get a way forward. I am writing to appeal to any one who can assist us to get his surgery done. I have tried the bank for a loan but it was declined. Any help at all would be appreciated. Thank you
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