LINK America's Dental Health Crisis: Modern Life Causes More Tooth Decay, and Care Is Increasingly Unaffordable | Common Dreams Views
"The loss of a tooth to disease may prefigure other losses in life quality. In terms of oral health, complete tooth loss, or edentulism, has been called the “final marker of disease burden.” An extraction is emblematic of defeat. The extracted tooth will not grow back. But when routine care is long deferred, when more complex procedures are out of reach or not an option, the extractions serve the urgent need of relieving infection and relieving pain."
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.After my open heart surgery, the doctors told me now dental health is critical.
I just agreed with them and just smiled.
I didn't have any funds to pay. That's why Veterans go to the VA.
PondartIncbendog
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June 18, 2019
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My poor mother last year had to have her tooth removed ( oral surgery) she is uninsured...cost her 1200.00 dollars...and her shitty rich family member's one of which is a millionaire...wouldn't help her out...she had to scrape the money together and couldn't pay her car payment that month...
Ravenwolfcasey
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June 18, 2019
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That's awful on every level. All these stop gap measures in dealing with health care make me so damn angry. M4A
Around the time of the ACA being debated, there was an excellent essay by a dentist talking about how essential it was for dental care to be included. He wrote of how preventive care particularly, saved considerable money in treatment considering how expensive treating issues late becomes.
It is also a quality of life issue. And people tend to put off what they can't afford. I know even when I was insured, the portion out of pocket and the yearly maximums often made timely treatment burdensome.
WilliamCharles
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June 18, 2019
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