WTF, man! Do you have any teeth left?
All of them, but like 6 are implants and 8 are crowns.
Today I got hit by one of the biggest leaks of our socialised healthcare system. A lot of the dentist stuff is out of your pocket. I lost a part of a tooth and after a x-ray the dentist said it broke off too much below the gum. So she said she cant do a dental crown on it. Now I have the options between a dental bridge (around 700 âŹ), a tooth gap after pulling it or an implant(around 2500 âŹ). Quite few in my family have dental problems with multiple dental crowns, bridges and so on. Probably will bite the bullet of an implant. Might be the better longterm solution.
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I think that will just make it worse.
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Bridges donât last and gaps can cause issues later so I would recommend an implant if you can afford it as definitely the best long term solution.
Agree, had a bridge break and now getting implants in same place.
- get bill in mail
- oh, itâs got a website so I donât have to call and talk to some boomer
- go to website, type in 19 digit code
- INVALID CODE
the code on the bill is formatted XXXX-XXXX-XXX-XXXX (4,4,3,4 characters) but the website is expecting 4,4,4,3. Same number of characters though.
oh, thereâs a QR code, Iâll try that,
nope INVALID CODE
call in and talk to boomer, of course she doesnât care that the website doesnât work and has no way to figure out who even to notify
btw, this is for my wifeâs orthopedist, my younger son has a different orthopedist (in a different practice) and my older son has yet another orthopedist (in another town at the other end of the state), I have bills from all three of them and they all use the same dumbfuck athena health system and they all have the exact same problem
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We love our private health insurance donât we folks.
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Has anybody itt tried Mindbloom? Ive heard that this type of therapy can be very helpful for someone with severe anxiety but it does worry me a little how easy it all seems.
Yes. Would be careful unless this is a last ditch effort type of thing. I was trying to treat chronic depression/PTSD. They do a brief consultation and questionnaire, you get your stuff and then go on a âguidedâ call with someone who definitely isnât a doctor. I somehow got a bigger dose than intended or I was sensitive to it in some way, I ended up having a full blown ego death and thought I had died, followed by severe depression for weeks afterward. They have you take your blood pressure after the treatment and show the guy, mine was high enough for him to be like âuhhhh that isnât goodâ but he isnât really medically qualified to do/say anything else about it. Got my money refunded for the rest of the treatment, but only after they âmistakenlyâ billed me several hundred dollars a few more times.
My insurance rejected hepA/HepB vaccine. No reason. You know, just an incurable disease that is completely preventable. denied. $300 out of pocket. Iâd rather get hepatitis.
At the pharmacy later that day getting the shots that were covered, a guy went to the pharmacist for a consult and showed what was clearly a super gangrenous gaping wound in his arm. Pharmacist told him he needed to see a doctor immediately. Guy said he couldnât afford one, would a cream work? Pharmacist said no, you are in serious trouble if you do not see a doctor. Guy was basically like âaw shucksâ and left.
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Just donât pay medical bills. Like 99% of the time they just give up. I can count the amount of times I have seen someone sued for a medical bill in 11 years of practicing bankruptcy law on one hand.
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Wait why do you need hep a/hep b vaccines?
You probably need to go to your doctor and jump through some sort of hoop to get it covered (likely antigen/antibody testing)
None of your business
Hep A vax is useful if you are traveling to developing countries frequently and eating sketchy street food right? At least thatâs why I got it a while back.
Yeah itâs also a pretty standard one to get as a kid, but depends on how old you are as it was phased in the 90s.
Not getting Hep B would be weirder.
@jmakin - ok bud I wonât try to help you.
I think I was too old to get the Hep vaxes (born in 81) originally
Yeah itâs close, I think I got it (86) for Hep A
Hep B was standard in 91 and you should have gotten it.
Anyways, as someone who has never had an antibody titer to measles canât wait for RFK jr to run shit
Ya the anti-vax shit about to dominate is one of many horrible things about the last week. Also I might actually have Hep B vax I honestly donât know. I still have my pink vax card somewhere I will have to check! My right wing parents were pro-vax when I was a kid but now are way against and love RFK 