Serious Infection/Dental. Need Help
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Our family needs some help and we aren't exactly thrilled to have to ask. We prefer being the ones helping others. But right now our son is in pain and at risk of his health being potentially seriously impacted if he doesnt get proper treatment asap. So, here we are.
A few months ago I noticed my 11 year old son Bailey was developing a couple of bad cavities in the back of his mouth. We tried to apply for insurance through my husbands work and THAT was a big hassle run-around, hours on the phone. What we FINALLY got established there is it is going to cost us approximatly $1,600 per month to insure our family. So.....after we died of a heart attack from that number and came back to life, our zombie selves treid applying for assistance through the states medical insurance. No luck. We make too much money to be approved. Mind you, with 7 kids we live far from luxuriously. We penny pinch and cut corners, I cook from scratch and we buy our clothes at Goodwill. We arent rich. we just make barely enough to not be able to get help that way.
We then applied for Care Credit. Which is a insurance that helps on a sliding scale depending on your income, and covers everything from medical to dental to even vets. Again, we were denied. This is the worst time for all of thisto go down. Because during the summer, our one income family takes a hard hit. My husband is a stagehand and work is slim to none here in Southeast Texas in the summer months. Bills are piling up and we are anxious for him to start his second job tomorrow since we have been barely scraping by recently.
Here is a run down of what Bailey is needing:
About 3 months ago he came to me crying one night and I saw a cavity formed on a molar in his mouth. The next day, when I looked closer, I noticed a second on up top on the opposite side. The one on bottom has developed an infection and is feeding off of raw nerves in his tooth and that si what is causing him severe pain. If you have ever had tooth pain you know what I mean by severe pain. He is going to need two full root canals (where they drill out all of the dead tooth/cavity) then they plan on putting a antibacterial liquid in the one tooth that is severely abcessed and then both teeth will get fillings (resin. They no longer use analgam) and then they will file down the tooth on the bottom because it happens to be a #1 molar. What that means is it is teh most imporatnt tooth in his mouth and tehfirst one that hist your other teeth when you chew or bite down. After a root canal teeth tend to almost 100% gaurantee to break so they will file it down beneath the regular tooth line to keep it from breaking until he is old enough at 16 to get a permanent cap on it.
Each of the root canals will cost us $1,375. The resin fillings will cost us $225. we paid for the visit to do the xrays and photos and initial check-up and chat with the dentist to figure out what we needed to have done. He also prescribed us with antiobiotics to help with the infection in the meantime, which will buy us a few weeks at best but the dentist made it clear we need to act as fast as possible. Tooth infections can travel and affect all parts of the brain and body. Plus, my son is in pain. Which is why I am asking for your help.
The extra $300 I added on is to cover the ten percent that this website takes out of all fundraisers.
Please help if you are able. Any amount will be such a huge blessing and we will be deeply grateful. I cannot put into words how it feels when your son is in paina nd you have to tell him he has to get up out of that entist chair and come home because you simply cannot afford to get him the treatment he needs. The look on his face was crushing and his dad and I both are feling like such failures right now.
We also promise to pay this forward as soon as we are able. Thank you so much for reading all of this and for your heart. <3
A few months ago I noticed my 11 year old son Bailey was developing a couple of bad cavities in the back of his mouth. We tried to apply for insurance through my husbands work and THAT was a big hassle run-around, hours on the phone. What we FINALLY got established there is it is going to cost us approximatly $1,600 per month to insure our family. So.....after we died of a heart attack from that number and came back to life, our zombie selves treid applying for assistance through the states medical insurance. No luck. We make too much money to be approved. Mind you, with 7 kids we live far from luxuriously. We penny pinch and cut corners, I cook from scratch and we buy our clothes at Goodwill. We arent rich. we just make barely enough to not be able to get help that way.
We then applied for Care Credit. Which is a insurance that helps on a sliding scale depending on your income, and covers everything from medical to dental to even vets. Again, we were denied. This is the worst time for all of thisto go down. Because during the summer, our one income family takes a hard hit. My husband is a stagehand and work is slim to none here in Southeast Texas in the summer months. Bills are piling up and we are anxious for him to start his second job tomorrow since we have been barely scraping by recently.
Here is a run down of what Bailey is needing:
About 3 months ago he came to me crying one night and I saw a cavity formed on a molar in his mouth. The next day, when I looked closer, I noticed a second on up top on the opposite side. The one on bottom has developed an infection and is feeding off of raw nerves in his tooth and that si what is causing him severe pain. If you have ever had tooth pain you know what I mean by severe pain. He is going to need two full root canals (where they drill out all of the dead tooth/cavity) then they plan on putting a antibacterial liquid in the one tooth that is severely abcessed and then both teeth will get fillings (resin. They no longer use analgam) and then they will file down the tooth on the bottom because it happens to be a #1 molar. What that means is it is teh most imporatnt tooth in his mouth and tehfirst one that hist your other teeth when you chew or bite down. After a root canal teeth tend to almost 100% gaurantee to break so they will file it down beneath the regular tooth line to keep it from breaking until he is old enough at 16 to get a permanent cap on it.
Each of the root canals will cost us $1,375. The resin fillings will cost us $225. we paid for the visit to do the xrays and photos and initial check-up and chat with the dentist to figure out what we needed to have done. He also prescribed us with antiobiotics to help with the infection in the meantime, which will buy us a few weeks at best but the dentist made it clear we need to act as fast as possible. Tooth infections can travel and affect all parts of the brain and body. Plus, my son is in pain. Which is why I am asking for your help.
The extra $300 I added on is to cover the ten percent that this website takes out of all fundraisers.
Please help if you are able. Any amount will be such a huge blessing and we will be deeply grateful. I cannot put into words how it feels when your son is in paina nd you have to tell him he has to get up out of that entist chair and come home because you simply cannot afford to get him the treatment he needs. The look on his face was crushing and his dad and I both are feling like such failures right now.
We also promise to pay this forward as soon as we are able. Thank you so much for reading all of this and for your heart. <3
Organizer
Tonia Beard
Organizer
Texas City, TX
