<div>Hi friends,
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<div>I need help smiling again, having a functioning mouth, and recovering.
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<div>Some of you know, some of you do not but I have been going through a hard time with urgent dental procedures since October of last year and just had surgery in mid June. It’s taken me since April to ask, I am someone who likes to handle their issues on their own, but I recognize that I cannot do this on my own. I do not have the resource of family to ask for support. My extended family lives in Nicaragua, and my siblings &amp; extended family usually need my help financially.
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<div>So far, I have had 5 teeth extracted, 3 were wisdom teeth which needed to come out, but 2 were main molars on my right bottom side that dentists could not save because they were too damaged by wisdom teeth that came in. I need these to chew and have a fully operating mouth. If I do not get implants I risk losing my top teeth because they can shift or super-erupt. I also risk bone loss or disfigurement to my jaw. Worst of all, I won't be able to eat or speak properly. I’m young, so a denture is not advised. Right now I’m pretty gummy on that bottom right side and lisping a little bit lol.
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<div>On top of this, I had an emergency root canal on my left side that is in need of a crown and before I can get a crown on that tooth I need surgery to shave down the bone. The molar next to that one, the one impacted by the wisdom tooth directly, is going to be sensitive for a while due to bone resorption.
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<div>I made a diagram to explain what’s going on.
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<div>Luckily, I am being treated at a nearby clinic that is affordable but they are cash-up-front before they do any work and I have a limited time frame with my assigned student doctor.
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<div>In total I need help with: wisdom tooth extraction surgery + extraction, RCT treatment, jaw surgery, crown, implants + sedation for those.
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<div>This has all been hard on my mentaI health. I have cried a lot about losing two teeth because it is very much tied to how depressed I became after my mom died. The first molar I had taken out was right after she passed and I just shoved all of it down to get through. I’ve been just trying to get by and figure things out as I go since then, like many 20 somethings, but my body is now asking me to slow down. Going to the dentist alone and really confronting how alone I am physically has been hard. I know I have friends, I know I am loved, but the reality of everything I’ve had to carry and how I just kind of bury it is not easy to confront. 
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<div>My student doctor has been incredibly empathetic with me and told me that my teeth are reflecting back to me that I take care of others, but I don’t ask, and now I have to in order to heal. Healing takes a lot of internal strength and external strength takes vulnerability.
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<div>As of now I’m still job hunting after leaving a workplace after lasting as long as I could and if you know how hard L.A. has been hit this year, resources are strained.
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<div>Despite all of this, I have kept my spirits high and have been producing art work and redistributing funds from prints with the time I’ve been recovering from surgery. It is critical to me that I keep working on art right now and writing about things that matter. My path as an artist and person are important. 
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<div>It is a firm value that I could be any person, anywhere, who just needs something, and that we only have each other. Anything I have had in abundance, I give back to any person I have ever seen in need. Please know anything you do helps and also, that I fully plan on healing and continuing to pour into others when I have more resources.
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<div><strong>I thank anyone who can redistribute right now and extend my gratitude to friends who are basically family to me who have been so encouraging &amp; loving during a hard time.</strong>
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<div><strong>Lots of love,</strong>
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<div><strong>-Belen</strong>
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