I've been losing and then temporarily regaining my smile for about a decade now.  My mouth has been through a LOT and I'm in a position now where there's no way to temporarily fix things anymore.  But I am not, however, in a financial state to be able to take care of this on my own.  This is sorta my only shot and my last resort.  I need upper dentures.

I guess I'll have to start at the beginning, although each event is not necessarily related to the next, to really reflect why this is so important and sensitive to me.  About ten years ago, I was a passenger in a vehicle vs. freight train accident.  It resulted in my maxillo-facial (face) bone breaking across, fracturing my jaw, and the loss of many teeth.  They fixed it with titanium plates, a stint of my jaw wired shut and dental implants.  In the two years I was going through surgeries, I had a "flipper" (removable mouthpiece with one or more fake teeth on it).  But then the surgeries were done, my smile was back, I could eat like a normal person, and regained my lost confidence.

Fast forward about seven years and I took a fall that resulted in a large chip (still there) in one of my dental implants (one of my front two teeth), and the loss of the tooth next to it.  I lived with it that way for about year and then was able to finally get another flipper.  It was really hard to not be able to smile yet again after all I'd been through for years with my mouth, and after finally having it fixed.

At the end of 2013, I spent a week in the hospital with pancreatitis, after having had symptoms for a very long time, but being uninsured, I didn't go in until I felt like I was dying.  In the meantime, I had been throwing up multiple times daily... for like a year.  Ever since my hospital stay, I'm better, with the occassional pancreatic episode, but being sick has ruined my remaining teeth.  

One by one, I've been having to extract.  I have one molar on the top, which I can deal with, but I knew the rest of my teeth wouldn't last much longer, either.  I had already lost one right in front and chipped another.  I can deal with the missing molars, you just get used to eating a certain way, but at least I could still smile with confidence.

Tonight, I was eating dinner and my front tooth on the other side of my implants than my other missing tooth broke clear off.  I'm devastated.  

I have five natural teeth on top and I can see decay on just about all of them.   Losing the tooth tonight, I can see it even clearer, and it's only a matter of time before they are all going to go.  I don't think I could handle being completely toothless after having gone through and done so much to restore my smile and my eating ability.

It's $200 per tooth extraction of the remaining five and the cheapest dentures you can get are $500.  A few friends have suggested this GoFundMe idea to me, and I realized that it's really my only shot at being able to get my smile back... I've lost it so many times before, and now I'm watching it die tooth by tooth.  It's just really painful and if 300 people donate just $5 each, I can reach my goal and be done with this chapter of my life.  If I don't reach my goal, I'll use any donations towards at least getting another flipper.

Thank you for reading the story, and if you can help, just please know that I am asking with the utmost humility and sincerity.  This is really hard for me.