MY Dental Maniac

Ever since my "Infamous tooth crack incident" started, it seems like it never wants to end!!

8/2/2007 Tooth CRACKED (#13 2nd premolar)

8/7/2007 Visited a CRAZY endodontist, didnt have a great experience, will post in another post about this crazy son of bitch! LOL

8/8/3007 Visited a general dentist... didnt do anything... he made a conclusion after poking on my PAIN spot! Yep, EXTRACTION!!

8/10/2007 Same dentist... FINALLY did something today... ROOT CANAL!! OH YEH, sounds crazy and scary! After did some thinking and debating (inside my head), whether to do RCT or Extraction... couldnt decide... but still had to do SOMETHING about it!

Reasons to do Root Canal---
1. Not cracked too deep, above the Fricture (root), try the best to SAVE my precious Tooth!
2. Since it's cracked from above, not from the root, so it seems like a better option!
3. RCT is to extract the pulp (nerves, blood vessels and all that shit!) So I wont feel no pain!
4. BUT I still have my TOOTH and ROOT!
5. I will have to get a CROWN , yeh thats right , a FAKE tooth! Another EXPENSIVE cost!
6. I PROBABLY wont need to do Dental Implants.... You know how MUCH MORE is that gonna cost me?! Yep, we are talking about THOUSANDS of US dollars!! Jesus... I should've chosen dental school!!

7. BUT, there's still a Probability that the RCT will not work in the future, yep no one knows WHEN that will happen!
There's ALWAYS a PROBABILITY that some procedure wont work out or wont last forever!!

Yep No doctors can tell their pts that, "we are 100% guarantee that this procedure will be 100% safe, 100% fine and dendy, 100% success rate!!"


Reasons to do Extraction---
1. Crack way tooo deep, yep to the point that the whole tooth is SPLIT into 2 , even the root is split too!! LOL it sounds funny, BUT trust me, it's NOT!

2. I can and HAVE to get an implants .. YAY!! Yeh right! NOT FUNNY!

See.. implants ... After extraction, have to WAIT for like at least a month to HEAL, then have to DRILL 1 titanium thing deep into the BONE! yep it requires SURGERY!! Then WAIT for at least 3-6 months to let the OSTEOBLAST to do its work to intergrate with this new titanium thing!! Then Add something else to stablize this thing... then wait for a couple of weeks, THEN finally add the CROWN!! yep It's not just the $$$ but also the TIME!! How the hell I have the time to do all that?! Totally I probably need to WAIT more than HALF year to get my pretty FAKE tooth done!! LOL

Back to today's dental visit...

See I was like ready to go in there and get an extraction, but but but I also wanted to save my tooth... so I discussed with my dentist, finally we came to an agreement, he'd open up the filling, and see how deep the crack was, and if its NOT savable, then he'd do extraction, if it's savable, he'd get rid of the nerves/pulp... yep root canal.. BUT I still dont understand the differnce btw
Root cancal and Emergency (Palliative) tx, base on what I understood, both of them needed to get rid of the nerves/pulp. But the PRICE is definitely different!

Price for RTC this dentis ($385), Emergency ($90)

Price for RTC that bitch endodontist ($850), Emergency (200+ consultation 75!)


First he put some lidocaine in my mouth, then more anesthetic via HUGE needle , yeh still feel the PAIN doc even with that lidocaine!

He bascially opened up the filling, HA I see my CRACK of that damn tooth! It went right across the tooth, and yep into HALF!! BUT I dont know how DEEP the crack is... Originally he wanted to extract it, but for some odd reason , he changed his mind, and then he decided to SAVE my tooth HA!!

He used some little drill, drill out the nerves/pulp, then use the driller to make my tooth smaller, so I wont bite onto it everytimw I eat.. BUT he warned me that I still can not chew on my left side!! He only put a tempory filling to cover up my WOUND!

Well see the downside of RCT is, since my tooth is cracked, so it MIGHT crack DEEPER, and eventually dentist still have to extract it, and yep thats right, I eventaully will have wasted all the money that I'm spending now!! And have to spend more money on extraction and Implants!

The whole procedure is quite fast, not as long as I thought it'd take... but he asked me to go back to him to finish THE REST of the work... hmmm wondering whatelse he'll have to work on my poor little tooth?!

***Lesson learned from this incidence... I HAVE to make LOTS and LOTS of MONEY!!
Yep, you rich dentists LISTEN UP!! The money you take out of my poket, I will get it back SOME DAY!! LOL it hurts!

Well dentists need REAL DOCTORS to fix their many other HEALTH problems right?! So WE will WAIT & SEE!!

Seriously, without money, no money to see doctors, no money to fix my tooth, no money to do anything.. and I will have to live in pain! How much a tooth can cost, you might ask? I dont know, but for sure, it's PRICELESS!! Yep, another lesson learned, TAKE CARE of TEETH!!