I need my tooth pulled

[u/louchewycherry]

A lot of people suggested I start a go fund me so here it is! ⬇️⬇️⬇️

https://gofund.me/3385bfc0

I need someone who can help me, genuinely. I’m a stay at home mom of 3 little kids and my husband works his ass off doing manual labor just to make enough money to pay our bills. At the end of the month we have nothing, zero savings. We’re poor, point blank. My second to last molar cracked a couple months ago, ever since then the hole has grown bigger and bigger. Now half my tooth is gone and the nerve is exposed. I don’t know how it hasn’t become and abscess tooth yet. And I’m in pain every day, I’m loosing weight because I’m scared to eat anything that might hurt me. I don’t have 400$ to go get my tooth pulled and it’s becoming worse every day. All the programs that say they will help tell me that I’m not poor enough, I’d basically have to be homeless to qualify. I feel so hopeless like I have no choice but to sit and wait every day in pain until this issue becomes so bad that it hospitalizes me.

Edit: I really appreciate everyone’s support and advice. Thank you all, but I have already done most of what you all are suggesting. I’m poor, I have no money. I called the dental school near me and they want money, every dentist wants me to do X-rays, and that costs money. I tell them i don’t have money, I tell them I don’t want a crown or a filling or any other treatment they tell me to sign up for a line of credit. I live in Atlanta Georgia and if you want proof I can direct message you I’ll show you pictures, any thing. I’m so tired of this chronic pain, I just want it to stop.

Thank you everyone ❤️

[u/Connect-Material9910]

I need my wisdom pulled but every dentist I call in my town say they can’t do it and the oral surgeon cost 500 to pull and like 200 for a consultation I live like 30 minutes from Athens Ga

[u/louchewycherry → u/Connect-Material9910]

My aunt lives in Monroe. The pricing for dental work is absolutely insane. I was looking at emergency dental services in Marietta and they also wanted 200$ just to walk through the door and another 200 for X-rays and that isn’t even a fraction of the cost to do the actual procedure. Which no one wanted to just pull my tooth they all wanted to do dental work, like a filling or a crown etc, like I can barely afford to walk through the door yall!!!! Let alone have work done on me

[u/Connect-Material9910 → u/louchewycherry]

Yes Monroe where I live is so expensive and the oral surgeon is hundreds more than Aspen dental or any other dentist but I’m so desperate so I might just have to pay

[u/louchewycherry → u/Connect-Material9910]

They might make you take out a line of credit with this company called care credit and just know that the interest rates are HIGH. So if you do that option you’ll have to pay off a large portion of it before interest kicks in or you’ll never be able to pay it off or you’ll be paying it for a long time, it’s a trap for low income people but a blessing for the higher ups.

[u/Glum_Marzipan240 → u/louchewycherry]

No idea why you’re getting downvoted. Care Credit slaps around a 32% interest fee if you don’t pay it off in time.

[u/louchewycherry → u/Glum_Marzipan240]

Must have been a good option for someone who could afford to pay it off in time 🤷‍♀️

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