I have lots of dental work, including root canals, crowns, bridges, etc., but they were done as needed. It would be scary to figure the total cost.

Several problems were caused by an unethical dentist doing root canals and leaving the drill he used in the tooth; then capping it. He did that to over 300 patients.

My youngest son works for Pepsi, is afraid of dentists and drinks way too much of the product. He has had over $10,000.00 of dental work done the last two years and is not done yet (he stops every year when he uses up his dental insurance benefits and then waits for the next year).

MAKE SURE YOU DO SOMETHING ASAP! I just finished a training film for University of Kentucky dental professor to be used to train Nursing Assistants to do dental care at nursing homes. As you probably know, dental care is virtually non-existant at nursing homes, even though it is required by Federal Law. Dental problems are the start of lots of other issues, including pneumonia, heart failure, and lots of other bad things...the kinds of things that kill people.

A year after I had my botched root canal, I was so exhausted I couldn't walk from my car to my classroom (about 300 yards).
I was in a constant state of exhaustion and sweat.

I finally found out that it was the result of the infection resulting from the botched dental work, which hid the problem.

Whether it's pulling the teeth or correcting the problems, it needs to be done as soon as possible to eliminate the possibility of terrible things happening-health-wise.

There is STILL a possibility that I may eventually have some negative effects of the botched work.


Be healthy, everyone,

Russ