I'm a diabetic, and I have a condition that goes along with it that a lot of people don't realize are related. I have really bad dental problems.
My teeth are in horrible condition. As in every tooth is loose, a couple are broken, and I've lost several teeth. I have to have the remaining ones pulled and get dentures. I'm going to the dentist on Monday, the 21st and I can hardly wait. My husband even took the day off work to go with me, because I'm really scared.
I've been trying to get this done for a year and a half now. I say trying, because I don't understand how the whole insurance thing works. I have co-pays and I know how the previous dentist wanted to do it -- pull all my teeth a few at a time, and then wait a couple of weeks, get my impressions done, and then give me my dentures about a week later. I just want to know what I was supposed to do during the 3 weeks when I have no teeth AND how does the insurance work. They pay 80% of the extractions and about 50% of the dentures, BUT there is an annual limit - so how does that fit in to all of this? I could never get the office manager at the previous dentist to explain it, and the office staff was changing all the time, so I finally called around and found an oral surgeon that's about two hours away and made an appointment. So!
I'm not eating low carb. I can only eat pureed and mashed foods. The texture of pureed meat makes me gag. I'm trying to stay more primal right now, so grain free, but when I get really hungry I do eat some oatmeal with heavy cream, butter, and splenda. Oats are the only grain that I do eat, but only 1 or 2 times a week. I'm still sugar free. I'm not using this for an excuse to eat myself into a coma, and I'm eating fairly low calorie (800-1200 calories a day.)
I hope to have new teeth that I can eat with by the beginning of 2012. Wish me luck. I'm so embarassed by my teeth, that I won't even talk to strangers if I can help it. The good news is that I'll finally have whiter teeth, because I can dentures that are whiter than my nicotine stained ones (and they will stay that way, because I'm almost 1 1/2 years smoke free!)
3 comments:
That's a really rough thing to go through. But, thankfully it won't last forever and soon you'll be proud to smile again. I hope all goes well for you.
Congrats on the smoke free!
Good luck with this, sounds like a rough row to how. But yay! on the not smoking! 14 years smoke free here. One of my proudest accomplishments.
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