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  Well, this last dentist I went to, who had no qualms about telling me if I didn't have numerous root-canals and special extractions I'd be left with not a tooth in my head...I asked him if I could work-for-teeth...he, Dr Fisher in Hauppauge, this is...just laughed and said, "We don't do that."

 I've spent years in dentist's chairs and honestly, it's not fair that I'm at this point.  I'm poor and destitute, I can't afford food half the time, how the FUCK am I supposed to be able to spend 2,000 per tooth (of which I've 25 that need attending to?)

 Eh.  I think I've a date with a train, honestly.

 Well, NYS says you CAN NOT exist on your own with no money.  I haven't worked in three years (Was taking care of my ailing father as well as how do you get a job when you use crazy glue to build half of your front tooth?)

  So they said I have to provide someone elses' income and call it my own.  My ex boyfriend is helping me...he makes all of 13 dollars an hour.  From that he has to pay 60 a week in child support, 1,000 a month rent, 300 monthly in electric, there are 4,000 dollar credit card bills...the list goes on and on.  Oh, and needless to say, we can't even afford to buy food.  But, NYS says that's 400 MORE a month than is necessary to qualify for medicaid.  (2 people must make LESS than 2,200 a month BEFORE taxes, regardless of expenses!)

  I live downstate, it's not even possible to live, as one person, on that salary.

  One of my teeth finally did it.  (I told you I feared the pain and no, no one stepped up to aid in the way necessary, providing actual MONEY to go to the doctor and get this stuff taken care of...)  One of my molars (one of two left to the top of my mouth) decided it didn't want to let me live anymore.  I spent three days screaming at the top of my lungs.  Finally, took the money for rent and wen to a dentist.  for 200 he root canalled said tooth.  He told me I had the most deplorable teeth he'd ever seen.  He said if I didn't get many root canals and special extractions, as well as a very good bridge piece, inside of a year I wouldn't have a tooth in my head.

  I'm not an old woman.  I just posted my picture because...well, I'm not ugly.  I'm actually beautiful. I should be able to get ahead, shoot, get ANYWHERE, in life...but my teeth...when I open my mouth, people cringe.  They think I'm a meth addict or crack-head or something.  It's worse when you're attractive, honestly.  People are so pleased at your face, your body, they seem to get angry at the juxtaposition of the rot in my mouth.   I have 6 more teeth, which any day, can start that screaming agony again.  That which feels as though someone's driving an awl into my head.  I have no money to even root canal these things, which would leave me with dead and broken stumps all over my face any way...I just cry.

  I don't understand, honestly, how there are people with money and yet...oh..they let someone, such as myself, suffer, every day.  I can have no life because of this.  Quite honestly?  My body was so traumatized by the pain of the last tooth that I trembled for three days...even a whole day AFTER the pain was gone.  It's INHUMANE.  I deserve so much better and I can't even find a job because of this!  Alas, at this point, should I get insurance, it wouldn't touch but one of my teeth.  I need special surgery to remove the many root canalled remnants, I need root canals and posts and crowns for 6 other teeth and I need a decent mouth bridge to fill all the rest of the holes.  (Implants are dreams at 5,000 a piece.)

  All told?  I think I need about 15,000 to get anywhere near okay.  I don't know why I bother posting this here, lol.  (not really laughing)  Just I always get emails saying I have some response or another to my posts.

  They've not one actually been helpful.  Doesn't any philanthropic person read these pages?  Does no one wanna keep me FROM WANTING TO DIE....SCREAMING TO DIE?!  Cus, truly, I'd give so much to be able to smile and know I wasn't horrifying the recipient.

Alright, I've had this list going for a LONG time now.  I've yet to recieve one message in my mail here on aidpage which would help me.  The lists I've seen compounded have all shown me zero.  I have NO money to pay for x-rays, let alone root canals, surgery and implants. 

  I'm not saying that you all are supposed to have answers. I don't have a problem with everyone else jumping on this page bemoaning the same problems.  I just...I donno.  If you know of a group or doctors in Long Island who WOULD be willing to help a woman out, please, let me know via the mail button on this site! 

  Only thing here is Stony Brook University which charges a lot just to look at you and only take student cases 1 month per year.  That's not going to work.  Really, what I need, is a cosmetic dentist and oral surgeon who, for one reason or another, wants to do free work.  LOL, ridiculous to keep asking. 

  If I knew, come up with 5,000 and it could be done.  It'd take me a couple of years but I would do it.  However, it's more a bill of 15 - 20 thousand dollars.  And I'll never have that kind of money, let alone to spend on teeth. 

  There's no employment availible to me as my teeth are lousy.  :/  There's no smiling for the same reason.  It's a shame, really.  I'm young and otherwise attractive.  Yet my teeth are screwed up and hurt like hell.  I worry about finally just getting an abcess that kills me. 

  Anyway, last time I'm gonna ask.  I can't read through the hundreds of posts here.  If you've information that is sure to be helpful (and please, remember, I need implants, ultimately) then email me at this aim page.  If not, well, thank you very much for reading.  I wish all who come here the best of health.

Is there any actual help coming from these posts, or are we just airing our humliating stories of pain for people to laugh at? I don't NEED a discount plan, I need some serious charitible doctors! My story: I'm 29 years old and currently looking for employment. I believe some of my discolored teeth (due to cavities) are impeding my sucess in aquiring a good job. :( Not to mention they hurt! I'm an otherwise rather attractive female, my teeth are anything but! I've SPENT YEARS in dentists' chairs! But when the insurance was up for the year, the root canals that were started crumbled and were destroyed beyond repair by the time the new year came around and I was able to return to the dentist. So now I need surgery to have about 6 teeth remnants removed, then have dental implants put in. On top of that I have three teeth(prominent front teeth) that are very decayed and in need of rootcanal/and or removal and implantation replacement. We're talking about thousands and thousands of dollars here. My teeth HURT...I'm scared. I'm really, really scared about what's gonna happen when the pain becomes too much. Is there any hope for us? I live on Long Island, btw, in NY.