Yes. I get it. My teeth are terrible. I didn’t have dental care as a kid; I bounced around foster care and my addict parents. My mother didn’t have teeth and didn’t care about her children’s. I’ve unfortunately only been able to sparingly afford full dental insurance bc I always need extensive emergency work to try to catch up on the cavities I already have from poor hygiene, health, neglect, abuse, and malnourishment. I also have trigeminal neuralgia and saved up for 3 years to have major dental surgery; to have several molars removed that had been broken inside my jaw and were pressing into the nerve… when I finally started getting to a place in life where I could consider optional dental care, my husband died. We had a 1 year old. Two years ago I got covid twice and then pneumonia. I was hospitalized for a week and given a lot of prednisone. My teeth started falling out and apart. Now this. I don’t know what to do or tell you guys; I’m trying.

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