I haven’t blogged in a very long time and I know I should just close the laptop and go lay down, but I am too pissed and I rather vent and scream in here than take it out on someone I care about.
Back here is the backstory because I need to recall every detail for myself as well as the lawyer I am going to become best friends with.
Over the summer my jaw really began to hurt again and I was clentching and grinding through mouth guard after mouth guard. Unfortantly because I have an active workmans comp case still going on, I cant get normal health insurance, nor do I really have the money for it because of the workmans comp case. Its not like I am getting money from them, I literally wait months on end before getting checks.
Anyways, that is not the case. I have forgiven the company that ruined my life by neglagence. Anyway, I was having major issues with my jaw and because I have medicaid, I went to a dental clinic in Rochester and they just weren’t set up to work with me and my TMJ…these are dental students.
So I was given a place to go, this really nice dentist office and they saw me right away. I thought I had a good dentist, she said she knew what I was going through and she would help me. They took xrays and I found out that for the first time in my life I had cavaties, but not the usual types, these were between the teeth and supposedly I got them because I don’t floss…which I do and I use foaming toothpaste…I am anal about my oral care.
I was fitted for a mouth guard and this dentist told me that we would start with the thinnest (even though I told her I would chew through it in less than a month) and that we would keep going harder as I went through each one. She then also sent me home with these muscle relaxers that I said I had taken in the past and they dont help, but she said to take them anyway to stop the clentching.
And appointment was then set up to deal with the cavaties.
Fast forward, I chewed through the mouth guard and then was told I could not get a new one for a year. Fine, I would keep buying the $50 dollar ones at the drug store rather than pay them $350 bucks for a guard I knew I would chew through.
Then we go to do the cavaties. They numbed me up and she took her time giving me novacaine and was talking and talking when all I wanted to do was listen to my podcast and have it done with. This is where the problems began.
I knew something was wrong when I started getting these sharp pains and I just knew they were from the nerve. Now I have never had fillings done before, so I don’t know how they are done, but this just didn’t feel right, but she was the Dr not me. By the time she was done drilling, I had a peg tooth and all these sharp edges that kept cutting my tongue and cheek and you could see the fillings on the side of my teeth and it just felt so thick. I didn’t know at the time that she was supposed to use all these other tools or this or that…all she used was a drill and a pick and I actually was chocking at one point on filling bits that fell down into my throat.
During the visit I ended up getting 4 more shots of novacaine and I could still feel all the pain with the drilling. Fast forward to me going home and not being able to feel half my face. Then the novacain wore off and all hell broke loose. My jaw that had been hurting from the clentching and grinding no longer hurt because my teeth now hurt to the point where I was crying. With every hour the pain got worse and worse to the point where the Dr called in a script of pain killers. (A few days later she would say there was nothing else she could do for me and refereed me to a pain managment clinic. Those places don’t help you for your mouth.)
Fast forward a painful week and I am back in and have another dentist doing my otherside, because the dentist I had from the week before, called out sick. Something the Dentist told me she did a lot.
This appointment went without a hitch, she used the tools you were supposed to, I could still feel my teeth and you could barely see the fillings. Most importantly, I wasnt in pain. She also fixed all the jagged edges that the other dentist had left and made it so I wasnt cutting my mouth and tongue open everytime I spoke or ate. That dentist also said that the other dentist had messed up my job and I should complain.
Fast foward a month and the pain has gotten worse, I can no longer eat on my right side, cold and hot foods have become foriegn to me and I was just plain misrable everyday. I went back to the Dentist in Nov, I was supposed to see the dentist that had fucked up my mouth, and when I walked into the office, I saw her. When they sat me in the chair and gave me the dentist who did the left side of my face. She told me that the other dentist had gone home, not feeling well.
This dentist told me I had 2 options, have the tooth removed but because of my age, that wasnt viable or have a root canal. They put in for the approval from the insurance company and I never heard back from them.
With everyday the pain would get more and more horrific, I could barely eat, you touched the side of my face and I winced and my face was just getting more and more swollen.
Then I had the bright idea that I would get my tooth fixed while I was here in NYC. I went to this ghetto dental clinic around the corner on Utica and actually had a great Jewish dentist who did everything in his power to try and ave the tooth, but he couldn’t. That original dentist had made it impossible and on top of it, she never filled the small cavaties between my teeth that she was suooised to fill and let me with one hell of an infection that neither her nor the other dentist seened to notice.
I now held a yellow paper with an address and referal to an oral surgeon. I was in tears, actually crying hysterically because I have this huge about loosing teeth.
Ok so this is the last fast foward. I am now 1 tooth short and possibibly have to loose 2 more because of this denist’s incomptance (never trust a dentist who is 40 someting with a nose ring!). Ok anyway, so I’mm all drugged up and on antibiotics, missing a tooth, blood on my favorite shirt and waiting for the lawyer to call.
I’m sueing this time for once not backing down„,why? Because she made me look like white trash and I cant and wont smile anymore.
Ok done with rat for now…no for some sak
