Help Emma Get Her Smile Back
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Hiya hiya, on this, my third HRT anniversary, almost 5 years after the beginning of this problem, I need to ask for some help paying for extremely necessary dental expenses.
You may have noticed that I never smile with my mouth open, that's because I have had 4 extractions in my front top row of teeth, both my canines and both my ancillary incisors - with my right incisor being broken in half after an ice skating accident. Anybody who would see me smile open mouthed could plainly see this, and it's closed a lot of doors for me.
When I was about 2-ish years old, apparently, I must have had a bad fever which weakened my canines, and then that coupled with years of dysphoria-induced dental neglect and abuse-induced dental anxiety, I ended up with pretty brittle, rotted teeth there in the middle top of my mouth. Eventually, in summer of 2018, I finally broke one of these teeth falling on the ice because I had to dodge around a little girl - she pointed out to me that I dropped part of my tooth, it didn't actually hurt very much at the time, just like a stiff punch to the face. Then I ran to the bathroom and started screaming in horror at the mirror, and that's when the cold air started hurting on my broken bone.
It took me a while after that to get dental insurance again, and a while after that to work up the nerve, and I really hoped I'd be able to get it all sorted in secret without ever having to tell anybody, but it turns out that 6 crowns for a bridge costs ~$6,000 after insurance and my dentist requires a 50% down payment, which is an expense my family simply cannot absorb.
I must then ask, please help me restore my smile and my access to opportunities in a world which disregards the disfigured and which scorns trans women who cannot be perfectly beautiful. I have noticed so many moments in the past few years where terror shoots through me at the thought of anybody being able to see, or at the thought of being denied opportunities to better survive just because I can't smile openly. More than that it is just a theif of joy, I cannot even smile in private, among people I trust without anxiety.
Please, if you might, I would very much appreciate any amount of help, even 1, 5, 10 dollars goes an incredibly far ways towards paying down that down payment and getting me to a place where I can feel comfortable working in public to pay down the rest of it. I would be forever thankful.
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Emerald-Rose DeLeon
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Flagstaff, AZ