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Dental work to get my smile back

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Hello my name is Dustyn and love to smile and make my children smile. i guess you can say i wasn't one of the ones fortunate to have great teeth. well thanks to my mother polly i was able to get braces to straighten my teeth out and while i didn't enjoy wearing them through high school i always looked forward to one day finally having a great smile and even better more confidence. so in 2003 i graduated high school with straight teeth and a time in my life where i was ready for the big world after high school. Well as much as i would love for that to be the happy ending it was only the beginning of a downward spiral of major dental issues. i started to notice that my front four teeth were slowly shifting and were becoming more and more loose. now i was beginning to fulfill my passion in further learning audio/video engineering at hocking college in nelsonville, ohio. like i said while i was going on with my life this issue began to really bother me so i went to absolute dental where i got a check up and cleaning but also got the first bit of news that my roots in the gums where those four teeth lived were starting to wear thin but dr. frilling told me to keep on with my regular routine and come in to check up on the root issue. well let's just say as i was still very thankful that my teeth were just a little crooked from a slight shift and not completely out of position like they once were. the fact that my teeth were very loose was what really bothered me so i was finally told the news. either i let these four teeth fall out within the next 5 years or pull them and have a flipper or partial denture sit there temporarily until i waited for my permanent partial. well i slept on it and decided to do the 4 tooth extraction and have a four tooth flipper which cost me $275.00. now i want going without teeth noway because my work required me to be socially presentable to potential clients. well i got it done and there i was back to straight teeth and although i was wearing four false teeth in my mid 20's i was happy to feel back to normal with my smile. well again i would love to leave my story with another happy ending but no!! i had 2 beautiful girls, bailey 4 and paisley 1 and they are everything to me but as bailey was in her toddler years paisley starting to become curious. i was directed to take my partial flipper out every night when i went to sleep and me and my family decided to move out west from ohio to las vegas where opportunity for my line of work was pretty endless as far as entertainment and banquets etc.... go!! i was excited to be in a new place with my family and ready to get that job engineering audio for a local casino. well i got a job with elf inc. and was getting steady work but that one time of the year in vegas the summer was approaching and work isn't so explosive around then. so one night actually 1 month ago i did the usual and sat my teeth next to me on the night stand. when i awoke the next morning my teeth were no where to be found and let me just say that i wasn't one to walk around without them. so to this day they are no where to be found and pretty sure my daughter paisley grabbed them some how and decided daddy didn't need his teeth anymore. so i immediately got on the phone and called a new dentist in a new place and it is pretty crucial that i have my teeth because without them i have become very unsocial and straight up embarrassed. i have trouble every day to be motivated cause to me and other people in my circle its a pretty big deal for me to have my smile. Everyday for the past month I have not been my self and it has caused my relation ship with a special women and mother named jessica to become affected due to this inconvenience. now i finally got a quote for the same exact Flipper i had in ohio but out in Las Vegas going to most dentist is almost like going to a mechanic they wanna do and quote only for profit i know not all dental practices are like this but the one i chose told me 250 on the phone which was by far the lowest quote yet and our money right now is definately in budget mode.
     So 3 weeks go by i go to my appointment with excitement to get my Flipper impressions and feel normal again cause i am definitely in a slight depression over this. The dentist checks me out and agrees with what i'm telling her but then a bomb dropped when we started talking money. $250.00 is for a one tooth partial and for 4 teeth is $400.00 so a decision had to be made and just so i could put this problem behind me i chose for them to make it even though i knew $400.00 was ridiculous and not the quote i received over the phone. So right now my partial awaits me and i will not receive it until the full price is paid which right now can not be done and would really appreciate it if someone could find it in there hearts to help me raise at least 400.00 to get my partial and confidence back so i can come home for once and give my fiance and 2 princesses a great big smile and feel back to my normal self. thank you for reading my story and really appreciate anything you can offer to help me reach my goal.

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