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Help Save Crystal's Luxury Bones

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Hi, hey, hello, I'm Crystal and my teeth are killing me! Literally but also figuratively. I have extensive decay, including an infection that my dentist told me turned my bone into sand. Yesterday I had two teeth pulled after going in for a single extraction, and unless I can come up with a way to pay for the multiple root canals and crowns, not to mention the bridge/dental implant, I'll lose the rest of my teeth, too.


A little backstory: I've had a lot of shoddy dental work in my life, but that is only the foundation my dental issues were built upon. We all know the American healthcare system is a travesty, and I'm merely a statistic in the overall tragi-comedy that is American Life so of course I'm a former heroin addict. The drugs I did never destroyed my teeth as badly as the ones I used to get clean, however. I was on a sublingual maintenance medication called Suboxone for ten years. Suboxone is a synthetic opioid and opiate blocker, and while it likely saved my life, it also ate away at my teeth and gums for a decade. I've been off of Suboxone for over two years now (and still sober from opiates! yay me) but the damage it did is irreversible, and without the pain relieving properties of Suboxone as a buffer, I've been suffering silently for years now.


I'm finally attempting to fix the damage and halt any more decay, but its almost impossible to do on DentiCal and unemployment. I've tried clinics to no avail, and I've tried dental schools only to give up after months of waiting and not being seen. I've tried applying for CARE credit but I've never had a job or credit card before so they won't approve me. I only found my current dentist after my infection flared up and I couldn't see or think straight - they were the first place I called and they got me in that day, so I'm sticking with them. Hopefully they don't suck, too, but their dentist did leave me with a gaping wound in my mouth after those extractions, so we'll see I guess.


Anyway. This sucks, and I don't know what else to do, so im doing this. I'll attach my x-rays and dental plan suggestion as proof. Thanks in advance for sharing, donating, even reading and just perceiving me in all of my traumatized, damaged glory.




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Crystal Dunning
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Santa Clarita, CA

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