As the saying goes...
Ouch!
Looks like it's gonna be 2 teeth out and one root canal (My dentist took another look at the "maybe a root canal" tooth and said that its cavity is too far along... after the root canal and cavity there wouldn't be enough left of the tooth to restore.
(I'm having both teeth out in... 12 days or so? And the root canal the following week...)
Oh well... better to find out now than after the root canal ($850/molar around here).
Of course, a "replacement" isn't cheap. Because of where the two bad teeth are... there aren't many choices... the best are 'implants' but those are expensive (more than $3K a tooth (Just $3K for the implant part. That doesn't even include the replacement tooth itself. Yikes!)).
Not sure how I would pay for it (for two teeth -- it's about the cost of a small/cheap car. But they'll last a lot longer.) but I'm going to try to figure it out... even if I'm broke afterward...
Wouldn't you?
And don't forget what I said about dentist visits... don't avoid the dentist like I did... until it was too late.
11:54:27 PM 
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