1 extraction
ending two years of pain
The tooth that waited
Two years of dental pain resolved in a single funded appointment.
For two years a broken tooth was managed with over-the-counter painkillers and avoidance. Eating on one side of the mouth, smiling less, skipping meals that were too hard to chew. An extraction would have solved it in an hour; the price tag postponed it for years.
A funded appointment ended it. The extraction took thirty minutes. That night, for the first time in a long time, sleep came without a headache.
Dental care is the part of healthcare most often dismissed as vanity. For the person in the chair, it was never about how it looked.