Why hello there! While I understand this is not ideal nor is it traditional, I am at my wits end and I don't know what else to do. I would like to start by saying I work full time. I am 30 years old and I am a single mother. I am doing all I can to stay afloat as it is (it's not going well).

Back to business - I am on here because I need dental work. I need dental work BAD. I was quoted from a prosthodontic that to try and restore what teeth I do have, would cost roughly $63,000. That is in no way, shape, or form logical or remotely doable, nor would it ever be for me.

Implants are roughly $5,000 per tooth, which again, obviously isn't manageable to any capacity. With that being said, all I want is to be able to get my teeth fixed at this point. If I could even get dentures, I KNOW I'd be a WHOLE NEW PERSON.

Ever since I was in elementary school, my two front teeth have always had cavities. Every single year, if not every other, I have had to get it fixed. It is now to the point where a year ago, a dentist told me that my time is about up with being able to fill my two front teeth cavities because there is nothing left there for the actual tooth anymore. My tooth on the left side next to my front tooth is hanging on by a thread basically. In July of this year, I had 4 root canals done and then in August, the following month, I had another 5 root canals. So now those 9 teeth especially need crowns and work done on them as quickly as l can. I can already feel them falling apart. I cannot find a single dentist around me that will see me without payment that day. All of my other teeth hurt throughout my whole mouth to be honest.

Because I am struggling with money and bills as it is, I am unable to even get in to a dentist because I can't provide any sort of payment. I don't know what else to do. I am so unhappy and I am in pain 24/7. I know there's a lot of people with it out there worse than I have it... but all I want is to be able to be happy and present for my son and I feel like I can't do that anymore because I have been so overwhelmed, stressed out, and just hurting.