Hi, I’m Savannah. I had depression, anxiety, and ADHD growing up. I’ve had teeth issues since I was 5 and was always in and out of the dentist with cavities. I was chronically depressed and as a teen, I just didn’t care about myself. I let my teeth get worse and that carried on into my adulthood. Once I finally realized I’m probably not gonna kill myself when I got older, I started caring about myself more, but that came with dental visits. I had awful experience after awful experience with the dentist I went to. Having extreme social anxiety, I didn’t advocate for myself at the dentist and ended up losing insurance after moving out of state and just stopped going altogether.

For the last few years, things have started to go downhill for my teeth. I have two broken teeth and keep getting abscessed teeth that I’ve been using saved antibiotics on. Yeah, it’s stupid of me, but I just can’t afford to fix them. I wouldn’t do a GoFundMe at all if I didn’t believe this was a last resort, but where my teeth are now, I know my out-of-pocket cost is going to be scary. If you can help with just a few dollars, I’ll be grateful and can update every time I go to the dentist on here. Whatever I don’t use on my teeth, I’ll donate to a Palestinian charity.

Thank you for reading.