I love spending money just to hear the person I'm paying tell me there is nothing they can do! Blisa had 3 fake teeth put in a few years ago. (too many suckers!) They had to put her to sleep and put in 3 fake front teeth. We opted for the metal with white porcelain coating. They have held up well..until now. A few days ago the porcelain chipped in two spots, and soon the entire coating fell off one of her teeth, exposing a very unattractive grayish tooth! I made an appointment with Office Anesthesia & Dentistry to look at her tooth to see if we could re-coat it. Since we no longer have dental insurance, I had to pay $89 just to have her looked at. The dentist came in, looked at it, and said "The tooth is intact and functioning and we cannot justify putting her under to replace it. It's fired on porcelain so you can't re-coat it. We'll just have to wait for it to fall out on it's own." It took about 30 seconds for this appointment!
So, the time table for this particular tooth to fall out is between age 7-9. So we have to potentially wait for 3 years! It looks likes she walked out of a trailor park...no offense to trailer park children with metal teeth! It's not even metal-looking...it's a dull gray, so it basically looks like she has a rotten tooth. It doesn't bother her, but here I am worried about what people will think when she smiles! Am I really that vain? Yes...I am. :(
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