11/22
#4
Thanks for the concern, guys. It seems like I get an abscess around once every six months or so. I guess it's a combination of no insurance for 10 years in the early 2000s and a genetic predisposition for weak teeth. Every dentist I see tells me my options are $20k in reconstructive surgery, or knock them all out and get dentures, since I'm not even forty, that's a hard pill to swallow.
Add to that the fact that my work won't let you take more then ten consecutive days off, I'd have to deal with the public (I work retail) as a toothless freak. So I end up putting the decision off and go to an urgent care place for antibiotics when it flares up.