$2878.00 for root canal and crown to save lower back molar
$375 to have it yanked
I could fly to Thailand - get this done - stay at a hotel for a week drinking Mai Tai's on a beach - fly back for same price
tooth broke so I can't wait otherwise I would get a new passport
Virtually the opposite happened to me - during a bit of a depression (ADHD fucking up my first uni attempt), moved from the UK to stay in my mom's basement in Canada for a year, then had to get the same procedure as you.
...the dentists were sooooooo nice as they asked for all my savings. I'd been quite proud of actually working a job (Starbucks, and hell, I was a coffee-like-product assembling machine - not that that's good, yadda yadda) and earning a pittance.
Ah well, nowadays I'm back in the UK, and public dentistry has pretty much collapsed anyway.
I mean, if you were a savvy participant in the free market economy, you wouldn't have gone to live there. Teeth are luxury bones. You can still contribute to
The Line Going Upa healthy working class economy after all your luxury bones fall out.Vote Liberal! This absolutely didn't happen while we were in power! If you don't,
Canadian Donald TrumpPierre Pollywhofuckincares will have absolute power! He'll do a 0.1% bigger climate change by burning your teeth for a turbine!¹ We're approaching the most important election of our lives!¹ (This will also happen anyways, but won't it feel bad if you didn't VOTE?????
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