Dakota's dental procedure

I’m Dakota Denton - If you know me you know this is something very out of character for me which is asking for help. Six years ago I was diagnosed with Crohn's disease after many years of trying to figure out what was wrong. Following that, I did a 6-month steroid treatment that greatly helped my Crohn’s, which unfortunately had the rare side effect of destroying the enamel on your teeth. To be transparent - I have also struggled with severe depression. Part of that is when you aren't planning on making it to tomorrow, why take care of yourself today? I thought that way for a very long time. I am lucky to be surrounded by my family and friends and yet I still didn’t ask for help. Mental health is a huge part of this and I’m also working on finding a professional as well.

As of right now I have had to have 5 teeth pulled, and 9 teeth are fully deteriorated or deteriorating in my mouth. I've been in so much pain that I've lost 15lbs in the past couple months. I also understand that these are consequences to the actions I've made.

The solution is dentures, specifically clip-in dentures. Essentially they take out all of my teeth, put in 4 posts - both on the top and bottom jaw - and I’ll have 2 bridges made to clip onto those posts. This is a cheaper solution to fixing every single tooth (quoted at $75-95k). Clip-in dentures are quoted at $15,000. As humbling as this entire thing is, I’m asking for help because I’ve looked into everything I could and I can't do this on my own. Is there a cheaper route? In the short term - yes, conventional dentures will cost about $9,000. The problem is bone loss - conventional dentures don’t help bone loss so these would only work for about 3 years before I would need another big medical procedure done.

As hard as this entire thing is, I need help. If you have the means to even donate a dollar, or the community to share this to, I humbly thank you.