geekchick | (no subject)

So, today:

One four-hour dental appointment
A discovery that it takes me a fair amount of time to actually get numbed up.
Two root canals
One really unpleasant reaction to most likely the nitrous. Ugh.
And at the end, a bonus: "We probably just didn't want to overwhelm you when we set up the $4800 treatment plan for these two teeth which were the most urgent, but here, have this new treatment plan that involves three more crowns, two fillings, and another $5000 billed entirely to you since your insurance maxed out long ago not far into today's treatment. But you can spread these procedures out." Huzzah.

I have both an implant and a bridge - the implant wasn't covered at all by insurance, the bridge was. If I had to do things over again I'd have 2 implants, even if I had to pay myself. Just a datapoint :-)

Yeah, the implant isn't covered by mine either. They took nearly 6 months getting back to me on that little tid-bit. I was a tad bit annoyed at that.